/setup
Build your candidate profile once — from your documents, a CV, or a conversation.
Everything CareerForge writes about you comes from one place: your profile.
/setup builds it. You run it once at the start, and again only when
something about you changes — a new job, a new certification, a new city.
Three ways in, same result
When you type /setup, it looks at what you have and offers three paths:
| Path | Best when | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| A — Scan my documents | You've dropped CVs, a LinkedIn export, diplomas, or reference letters into the documents/ folder | It reads everything, cross-checks the sources against each other, and proposes profile content |
| B — Import a single CV | You have one good CV and want a fast start | It extracts what the CV contains, then asks targeted questions about what CVs usually leave out |
| C — Interview me | You're starting fresh, no documents needed | A guided conversation through nine topics: identity, education, experience, skills, and so on |
All three paths end in the same place: a set of profile files describing your experience, working style, evaluation preferences, and job-search targets.
The rules it follows
These are worth knowing, because they're the reason you can trust the output:
- Nothing is written without your OK. Every proposed change is shown first. New content arrives as a checklist you approve; anything that conflicts with what's already on file is presented one item at a time with keep / replace / edit choices.
- It never fills gaps with guesses. If it doesn't know your graduation year, it asks — it does not invent one.
- Disagreeing sources get flagged. If your CV says a job ended in 2021 and LinkedIn says 2022, you'll see both and pick the right one.
- Running it twice is safe.
/setupis idempotent: re-running it with the same inputs proposes nothing new and overwrites nothing.
Updating one section later
You don't redo the whole interview to change one thing:
/setup --section experienceValid sections include identity, education, experience, skills,
behavioral, interview-prep, and search — that last one regenerates your
job-board queries and location preferences, which is handy when you move or
change targets:
/setup --section searchWhat it builds
Seven profile documents plus your search configuration — among them your candidate profile (experience, skills, education), a behavioral profile (working style and preferences), profile statements for different role types, and interview stories in the STAR format drawn from your real achievements. Where a story needs your first-person memory to complete, it leaves a clearly marked stub for you rather than inventing the details.
What happens next: you're ready to find jobs with /search.