Job Application Package
Builds a tailored resume, cover letter, and interview prep guide for one job. For case managers working with a participant.
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Case Notes
Speak or paste what happened and get a clean case note to paste into your case management system. Adds a service justification when you need one.
Business Brief
Researches an employer and writes a brief to scan before the call. For job developers preparing employer outreach.
Fly on the Wall
Hear how a hiring manager, HR screener, and supervisor would talk about a message, then get fixes. For coaching a cover letter, pitch, or interview answer.
Success Stories
Turn a success story from your case management system into a board one-pager, a newsletter feature, or a staff win, within the consent on file. For navigators, managers, and marketing.
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Career Pathways
Matches interests to jobs, pay, and training in your area. For anyone exploring careers, with no sign-in needed.
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Job Application Package
This will take about 15 minutes
- Resume: ATS-friendly and tailored to the job, with transferable skills and keywords highlighted.
- Cover letter: connects the participant's background to what the employer needs, ready to submit.
- Interview prep: scripted answers for hard questions, including gaps and background, plus talking points.
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Job Application Package
The documents are ready
Resume
Professional resume with translated skills
Summary
Cover letter
Tailored cover letter for this position
Opening
Interview prep guide
Personalized interview preparation
Practice first
How to use the documents
Customization
These documents come from the participant's profile and are tailored to this job. Open them in Microsoft Word and personalize:
- Add job-specific details you remember after reviewing the posting
- Adjust tone to match the company culture (formal vs. casual)
- Include any recent skills or experience not in the profile
When to update the profile
Keep the saved profile current so future applications are faster:
- After completing new certifications or training
- After new work experience
- When contact information changes
- When there are new skills worth highlighting
Interview preparation
The interview prep guide works best when the participant uses it actively:
- Read it out loud several times before the interview
- Practice the questions together, or with a friend
- Focus on the background question scripts. Delivery matters.
- Print it to bring along for a last look
Saved profiles
Pick up a participant
Profiles are saved in this browser only. Choose one to build documents for a different job.
No saved profiles yet
Complete your first Job Application Package to save a profile for reuse.
Business Brief
Research an employer
A brief for staff before an employer conversation: who they are, what they hire for, and where your programs fit. Enter a business name and we research it with live web search.
Fly on the Wall
Hear how the room reads it
Hear how a hiring manager, an HR screener, and a frontline supervisor would talk about a message after the candidate leaves the room. Then get concrete fixes while there is still time to use them.
Optional if you paste the posting below.
Readers react more like the real employer when they have the posting.
Remove names, phone numbers and addresses before you run this. Readers only need the message.
40 more characters
This might identify someone. Check these before running:
Run starts once the message is at least 40 characters.
Success Stories
Turn a success story into what marketing needs
See what is in a navigator's story and what is missing, where it could be used within the consent on file, and get the versions you pick. Nothing is stored. Your case management system stays the record.
Optional. It shapes what the versions say and leave out.
There is no obligation to disclose. Use what the participant chose.
Offense details and facility names are never used either way.
Stays in this browser. The AI only sees a placeholder; the name is put back where the release allows.
Stays in this browser, like the participant's name.
Paste the story as the navigator wrote it. Names, birth dates, case numbers, phone numbers and addresses are removed before anything is sent.
Dictation uses your browser's speech service: the audio goes to the browser's maker (Microsoft for Edge, Google for Chrome) to be turned into text. SkillsDecoder never receives the audio, only the text when you press Read story.
The file is read in this browser and is not sent anywhere. Its text, with names and identifiers removed, goes to SkillsDecoder's AI service when you press Read story. Check that your organization's AI policy allows case management records here before using a real story.
80 more characters
Removed before sending:
Something else to remove? Select it in the box, then press .
Pick the consent level and add the story to read it.
Step 1. Read
What's in this story
Found in this story
Uncheck anything wrong, or check what the tool missed. Write only leans on what is checked.
Missing
Take these back to the navigator.
Also worth asking
Step 2. Use
Where it could be used
Pick up to four, then press Write.
Pick at least one use.
Step 3. Write
The versions
What I left out and why
Gaps
Hand off
Summary for marketing
No name appears here. Marketing finds the person in the case management system.
Create a SharePoint list with these columns, in this order, so a copied row pastes straight into the grid view:
- Date drafted: Date
- Category: Choice (First job, Second chance, Back to work, New career, Credential and training, Promotion and raise, Employer partnership, Youth pathway, Veteran transition, Staff excellence, Other)
- Population: Single line of text
- Outcome type: Choice (Hired, Promoted, Wage increase, Credential earned, Enrolled in training, Retained, Other)
- Program: Single line of text
- Employer: Single line of text
- Consent status: Choice (No release on file, Internal only, External, with name, External, de-identified)
- Suggested uses: Multiple lines of text
- Strongest angle: Multiple lines of text
Keep the person's name and the release in your case management system. The list is the library; the case management system stays the record.
Case Notes
Turn what happened into a clean case note
Speak or paste what happened after a meeting or call. Get a case note ready to paste into your case management system, with a service justification when you need one. Nothing is stored. Your case management system stays the record.
Describe what happened. No names, phone numbers, birth dates, case numbers or addresses. Say "the participant".
Dictation uses your browser's speech service: the audio goes to the browser's maker (Microsoft for Edge, Google for Chrome) to be turned into text. SkillsDecoder never receives the audio, only the text when you press Draft note.
40 more characters
This might identify someone. Check these before sending:
Add what happened to draft the note.
Your draft
Read it, fix any word, then copy it into your case management system.
Before you paste
The notes didn't say. Add these to the draft if you have them. They are not copied.
Settings
Organization settings
Your organization's look, the programs Business Brief matches to employers, and the policy Case Notes names.
Our programs
Business Brief matches each employer you research to these programs, by name. Everyone signed in with your organization key sees and uses this same list.
Loading your programs.
Programs
No programs yet
Add the programs your organization offers employers, like a forklift certification track or a job readiness class for people with records. Business Brief will match each employer you research to them by name.
You have 12 programs, the most a brief can use.
Case Notes
Wording every Case Notes draft from your organization uses. Everyone signed in with your organization key shares it.
Loading your Case Notes settings.
A supportive service justification names this policy in its Basis line. Leave it empty and the Basis line is left for staff to fill in.
Data management
Saved participant profiles are stored in this browser only. Programs and Case Notes settings are saved to your organization's account.