Words
What CareerBot's words mean, from story and fact to direction, limit, pursuit and credit.
The words CareerBot uses on its screens, in plain terms. Examples follow Wren Castellano, a fictional supply-planning lead.
Your record
- Story
- Something you wrote about your career in your own words: one job, one project, what happened. Reading a story proposes roles, facts and context. Each save keeps a version. Lives in Record, Story.
- Quick note
- A short story for something smaller: one more thing about a role, a project or a result.
- Goals story
- The story where you say what you want next: the work, the pay, where, and what to avoid. It lives in Goals and is read into limits and directions.
- Record
- Everything true about your career that you've approved: roles, projects, facts, context, skills, tools, certifications, breaks and insights. Every resume, letter and ranking is built from it.
- Role
- A job you held: employer, official title, dates and place. Its facts sit under it. (On Pursuits, a "role" is an open job instead; see below.)
- Fact
- One true, specific thing about your work, read from a story or a repository, or added by you. Wren's: "Took finished-goods inventory from 41 to 29 days of supply without lowering service, freeing about $9 million in working capital."
- Context
- Something true about a role that its facts don't say, such as the size of the team. Rewrites of the role's facts use it.
- Project
- Work you built, read from a GitHub repository, with its own facts. It can be linked to the role it belonged to.
- Same work
- A project fact and a role fact that describe the same work. Connected, resumes write one line for the two.
- Skill, tool, certification
- Gathered once from your approved roles, projects and facts, and approved by you. Resumes list the approved ones you show.
- Career break
- Months away from work, with an optional reason, and how it shows on resumes: shown, shown with reason, folded into a role, or left out.
- Insight
- Something true of you across roles and projects, worked out from your approved facts. Wren's: "You move whole operations onto new systems, from a brewery's first MRP to a freight network's TMS."
- Built on
- What something rests on: the approved facts behind a resume line, or the story words a proposed fact was read from.
Deciding
- Proposed
- Read or worked out by CareerBot and waiting for your decision. Proposed things never reach resumes.
- Approved
- Accepted by you. Only approved things are used for resumes, letters and ranking. Undo approval takes something back to review.
- Rejected
- Turned down by you, with an optional reason that steers what's proposed next. Rejected things are kept, with the reason, and can be restored.
- Review
- The screen where every proposed thing waits, grouped by kind.
- Rewrite
- A new wording proposed for an existing fact, to use or not.
Goals and search
- Direction
- A kind of work you're going for, like Wren's "Logistics Operations". Roles are ranked for each approved direction, and each has its own resume.
- Positioning
- How your record is told for one direction: the summary, the titles to aim at and the words to use. A direction's resume is written from it once you approve it.
- Criteria
- What company search looks for in a direction: industries, company sizes, stages, keywords and companies to find more like.
- Title map
- How your titles translate into the titles a direction's market uses.
- Limit
- A rule from your goals or added by you, such as a minimum pay or a place. A Firm limit hides roles that fail it; a Preference ranks them lower. A limit can be switched off without deleting it.
- Company rating
- Your call on a company: Target (its roles are read and ranked first), Maybe (read too, ranked after targets) or Not for me (set aside with your reason).
- Company fit
- How a company fits each direction: Fits, Partly, Doesn’t fit or Can’t tell.
- Companies you like
- Companies you pick in Search settings: each is added to your companies at every search and used to find more like it, unless you turn that off.
- Fit score and level
- A role's score for a direction, coloured by its level: strong, some, weak or none. New strong roles show on Today.
Applying
- Role (on Pursuits)
- An open job found on a company's job board and ranked for your directions.
- Pursuit
- A role you decided to go for. It keeps the status, tailored resume, cover letter, answers, people, reminders and timeline of that one application. Statuses: Preparing, Applied, Interviewing, Offer, Closed (with Rejected, Withdrawn, No response or Declined).
- Interested
- A role you marked to keep in mind until you start it.
- Reminder
- A step due on a pursuit: follow up when it goes quiet, prepare before an interview, or check on one that hasn't moved. Snooze hides one until a day you pick.
Resumes
- Base resume
- A neutral account of your whole career, written from your approved record.
- Direction resume
- A resume for one direction, written from your record and the direction's positioning.
- Tailored resume
- A resume written for one posting from a direction resume. It's kept as written, and kept as sent once you apply.
- Version
- Each time a resume is written it's a new version. A new version waits for you to keep or discard; History keeps every one.
- Edited
- A line or summary you put in your own words on one resume. It stays built on the same facts.
Account and money
- Workspace
- Your own space in CareerBot: your stories, record, goals, search and resumes. Each person has one, and no one else sees it.
- AI budget
- The most CareerBot may spend on AI each month, through your own OpenRouter key. AI work pauses when it's reached and picks up again when you raise it.
- Apollo credit
- Apollo's unit of cost, spent from your own Apollo plan when finding companies, their details, job postings or an email. You set how many credits to set aside each month.
- Cost estimate
- What an action will cost, shown beside it before you start ("About $0.02 of your AI budget", "About 1 Apollo credit"). Free actions say Free.
- Activity
- The list of work running in the background, what finished or failed in the last day, and this month's spending.
- Background work
- Work that runs on its own after you start it, or on a schedule, such as reading job boards each day.