Interviewer Dossier

Interviewer Dossier (from LinkedIn)

What This Skill Does

Reads an interviewer's exported LinkedIn profile (PDF) and produces a tactical profile to help the candidate connect with them: their career arc, what they're genuinely expert in, what they probably care about in a hire, where their knowledge likely runs deep vs. thin, and concrete ways to build rapport and tailor answers.

The goal isn't to "stalk" — it's the prep a sharp candidate does anyway, done thoroughly. Knowing your interviewer's background lets you speak their language and aim your answers at what they value.

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Gather Maximum Context First

1. The interviewer's LinkedIn profile, exported as PDF (required). Tell the candidate how:

on the interviewer's LinkedIn profile → "More" button → "Save to PDF" → upload it here.

1. The role being interviewed for (required) — the dossier is useless without knowing what the

candidate is being assessed for.

1. Helpful extras — the interviewer's title/role on the panel (hiring manager? future peer?

skip-level? cross-functional?), and the interview format. How you play to a future peer differs from how you play to the decision-maker.

If you only get the PDF with no role context, ask for the role before producing the dossier.

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Process

1. Read the LinkedIn PDF for: career trajectory, current role and scope, past companies and what

they'd have learned at each, education, skills they highlight, posts/articles if included, tenure patterns, and how they describe themselves.

1. Infer what they know deeply — domains where their experience is genuinely deep, where they'll

ask sharp questions and detect bluffing.

1. Infer what they likely care about in a hire — based on their own path (e.g., a former founder

values scrappiness; a long-tenured operator values reliability; an IC-turned-manager values craft).

1. Map their likely blind spots — areas outside their experience where the candidate's depth could

shine, or where the interviewer may need things explained more simply. (Use this to calibrate, not to condescend.)

1. Produce rapport hooks — genuine common ground or shared interests, and how to reference them

naturally.

> Honesty rule: Everything is inference from a public profile, clearly flagged as inference. Don't > state guesses as fact. Don't fabricate detail the PDF doesn't support. Keep it professional — this > is interview prep, not surveillance; stick to career-relevant signal.

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Output Format

# Your Interviewer: [Name], [Title]
*(All inferred from their LinkedIn profile — treat as informed hypotheses, not facts.)*

## Their Story (the 30-second read)
[Career arc in a few lines. Where they've been, where they are, what shaped them.]

## What They Know Cold
[Domains where they're deep. Where they'll ask sharp questions and spot bluffing — so be precise here.]

## What They Probably Value in a Hire
[Inferred from their own path. What will resonate with this specific person.]

## Where You Can Shine / Calibrate
[Areas outside their core experience — where your depth stands out, or where to explain rather than
assume. Framed as calibration, not condescension.]

## Rapport Hooks
[Genuine common ground — shared background, interests, companies, schools. How to bring it up
naturally, not forced.]

## How to Aim Your Answers at This Person
[2–3 concrete adjustments to make given who they are.]

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Quality Bar / Failure Checklist

This dossier FAILS if it:

• ❌ States inferences as facts instead of flagging them as hypotheses
• ❌ Fabricates detail the LinkedIn PDF doesn't support
• ❌ Strays from career-relevant signal into anything that reads as surveillance
• ❌ Produces generic advice not tied to this specific interviewer's background
• ❌ Reads as condescending about the interviewer's "blind spots" instead of using them to calibrate
• ❌ Skips the role context, making the prep un-targeted

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: getclera
• Source: getclera/claude-skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.