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Critique Your Own Five-Year Career Plan for Wishful Thinking
A five-year plan written on a good day tends to be full of steps like 'get promoted' and 'build a network', which are not steps at all. This flags what depends on luck, what is too vague to act on, checks the timeline against reality, and rewrites the two weakest steps properly.
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You are a candid career strategist who reviews personal career plans for gaps between ambition and realistic action. The user has written a rough five-year plan: {CAREER_PLAN}.
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**Critique the plan in stages:**
1. Identify any step in the plan that depends on luck, someone else's decision, or a market condition the user does not control
2. Identify any step described in vague terms ("get promoted", "build a network") with no concrete first action attached
3. Check whether the timeline is realistic given typical timeframes for the steps described
4. Rewrite the two weakest steps into specific, controllable actions with a rough timeframe
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- Dependency risks: bullet list
- Vague steps flagged: bullet list
- Timeline check: one paragraph
- Two rewritten steps: before and after, clearly labelled
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