Skills / Find openings
Find openings
Build a list of openings worth the person's time. Job boards, local businesses, and school channels, each with an honest fit note. Use when they say "help me find a job", "what jobs can I get", or "who's hiring near me".
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This is how a session goes when someone has no idea where to start. Click through it.
Scripted example of a real session.
Everything wants experience you don't have?
Most of what a first search surfaces was never meant for a first job, and the skill filters that out before you waste an application on it. What survives gets an honest fit note. A posting that wants two years you don't have can stay on the list, labeled as a stretch, and a posting that fits gets said plainly too. If the real problem is a thin resume, that has its own fix.
What you end up with
A short list of real, current openings, each checked today, each with a fit note in your own words and a next step. Here is what one looks like after a sitting.
- Ranked by the person, in their words. The agent finds and checks; the ranking and every fit note are yours, because you are the one applying.
- Every entry has a next step. Apply online, walk in, or email a named person. The list hands off directly to the skill that does that step.
- Places with no posting count. The bakery never advertised. Map-sweeping the shops you already walk past is where a lot of first jobs actually are.
- A stretch stays labeled a stretch. The missing certification is stated, with the date of the course that fixes it. Nothing gets talked up.
Questions people actually ask
Is this free?
The skill is free, no account, no catch. The agent you paste it into may or may not be: Gemini has the widest free tier, Copilot's free tier is enough to try it, ChatGPT and Claude free plans can also run it in a chat.
I'm under 18. Is there even anything for me?
Usually yes, but the rules depend on where you live, which is why the session starts with age and local work rules before any searching. Openings your rules exclude get cut early so the list only holds things you could genuinely take.
What if there is nothing near me?
The sweep goes wider than boards: employer career pages that never hit the boards, shops with signs in the window, school and community channels, and season-shaped work like camps or holiday retail. If the list still comes up short, the honest answer is a smaller radius problem, and the session says so instead of padding the list.
Does it apply for me too?
No. This skill ends with a ranked list and a next step per entry. The applying happens in apply-online or apply-in-person, and there you are the one who hits submit.
Do I need a resume before I start?
Not to build the list. You will want one before the applications go out, and the build-resume skill makes an honest one even when there is little to put on it.
Where to go from here
List in hand? Work the top five:
Know someone at one of them? That path is faster:
Curious? Read the full skill — the exact instructions your agent gets
--- name: find-openings category: get-hired description: Build a list of openings worth the person's time. Job boards, local businesses, and school channels, each with an honest fit note. Use when they say "help me find a job", "what jobs can I get", or "who's hiring near me". --- # find-openings Find openings with someone who is probably job-hunting for the first time. The bar: by the end of the sitting they have a short list of real, current openings they could apply to this week, each with an honest note on why it fits or does not. ## Ground rules - Real openings only. Every entry has a link, an address, or a named person, checked today. Never list a posting you have not looked at or one that has visibly closed. - Honest fit notes. If an opening wants two years of experience they do not have, say so on the list — it can stay as a stretch, labeled as one. Do not talk them into or out of anything; show the facts. - Their constraints rule: age and work-permit rules where they live, hours they can actually work around school, how they would get there. Ask these first, and cut anything the answers rule out. ## Their search shape Five quick questions: what kind of work sounds bearable or even fun, how many hours a week and which days, how far they can travel and how, when they can start, and whether they have any experience at all — informal counts. Write the answers down; they are the filter for everything that follows. ## Sweep the sources Work through these together, out loud, adding keepers to the list: - Big boards (Indeed and whatever is standard in their country), filtered to entry level and their radius. Search their real constraints, not fantasy titles. - Direct employer career pages for the chains near them — grocery, food, retail, cinemas — which often never hit the boards. - Local and small: the businesses they walk past. Map-search their area, list places plausibly hiring, note which post "help wanted" signs. These become apply-in-person targets. - School and community channels: career office, counselor emails, club bulletin boards, library postings, community centers, local social-media job groups. Ask what they have access to. - Season-shaped work if timing fits: summer camps, holiday retail, lifeguarding, tutoring. ## The list Put the keepers in one place they will actually reuse — a simple table or spreadsheet: employer, role, source link or address, pay if posted, hours, deadline, fit note in their own words, and next step (apply online, walk in, ask a person). Ten good entries beat forty vague ones. Have them rank the top five; those are this week's work. ## Done - A checked list of real openings, each with a next step - Top five picked by them, with honest fit notes - Handed off: apply-online or apply-in-person for the applications, job-application-tracker to track them, get-referred for any entry where they know someone inside