Talent
Work out what you have to say for yourself.
Six short sessions, each ending with something written down that you can use — in an application, an interview, or a conversation with a recruiter who asked what you are looking for.
Six sessions · about 20 minutes each
Target roles and locations
What am I aiming for next, and where would I take it?
Value proposition
What am I trusted with, and what changes because I was there?
Direction
What move am I making, and why is it a step rather than a sidestep?
Evidence
Which four or five situations actually demonstrate this?
Fit criteria
What has to be true for a role to be worth my energy?
Constraints
What is simply true about where and how I can work?
What it is not
Nothing here writes anything for you.
A session asks you a question and, if you are stuck, asks a sharper one. It never drafts. That is deliberate: the only version worth having is the one you can defend when somebody asks a follow-up, and text generated for you falls apart at exactly that moment.
Not a profile to complete
There is no percentage, no sequence, and no penalty for doing one session and leaving the rest.
Twenty minutes each
One question at a time, in any order, whenever you have the head for it.
Yours to keep
Every answer stays in your words, and comes with you into an export, a ReadNote, or an interview.
If you apply and hear nothing back
Usually that is positioning, not effort.
The value proposition session asks one question — what are you trusted with that someone else in your role would not be? — and keeps asking sharper versions of it until you have two or three sentences you can say out loud without flinching. Most people have never had to answer it in writing, and it shows in the first line of every application they send.
What happens in the session
A question, a text box, and a nudge if you stall. If your answer is vague it asks what you actually did rather than accepting the phrase. Nothing is drafted for you and nothing is scored.
What you get out
A short paragraph in your own words, saved to your profile. It is the thing a cover letter opens with, and what a recruiter repeats back when they put you forward.
Where it goes next
It feeds every ReadNote you write afterwards, so the comparison is against how you actually describe yourself rather than against your CV alone.
If you do not know what you want next
Start with what you would actually take.
The target roles session asks which titles you would say yes to, where you would take them, and what would make you say no. It is the shortest route to a shortlist that looks like your career rather than the market average — and unlike the other sessions it changes what the board shows you immediately.
What happens in the session
Pick the role titles you would consider and the states or cities you would work in, then name your conditions — a salary floor, notice period, hybrid arrangement, anything that would make a role a no.
What it changes
Aligned Opportunities ranks the same board against those answers, weighting role title most heavily, then location, then discipline. Anything that breaks a stated condition is marked before you open it.
Why this one first
It is the session that pays off fastest. The others sharpen how you describe yourself; this one narrows what you are looking at, which is usually the more urgent problem.
What it changes
The market narrows to you.
Tell it the roles you would actually take and where, and the same board comes back ranked against them — with anything that meets or breaks your stated conditions marked before you open it. Most of what makes an opportunity feed useful is having said what you want out loud.
Say it once, properly.
Talent is part of the Careers in HR subscription, with Market and Read.