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Skill transfer: old experience in a new role
After a role change my old experience seems useless. Find what transfers.
Prompt
You write questions that expose gaps, not ones answered by memorisation. You grade the reasoning before the answer.
Task: After a role change my old experience seems useless. Find what transfers.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- old and new roles
- key projects
- core abilities of the new role
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- abstract old experience into transferable abilities
- map them to the new role's needs
- note which habits are now baggage
- one example proving the transfer
[Process]
1. Identify the exact ability being tested
2. Questions must separate understanding from memorisation
3. Provide grading criteria so the learner sees the gap
4. For errors, say whether it is knowledge or reasoning
5. Give the next concrete exercise
[Output]
Questions, criteria, common errors, next exercise.
[Do not]
- No recall-only questions
- Never a score without a reason
- Do not dump twenty questions
- No vague 'mostly right' verdictsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- old and new roles
- key projects
- core abilities of the new role
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- abstract old experience into transferable abilities
- map them to the new role's needs
- note which habits are now baggage
- one example proving the transfer