Career Memory: the profile every JobMentis tool reads before it writes
Career Memory is the profile every AI feature in JobMentis reads before it writes anything. 23 compact blocks of your real career data, sorted into four tiers by where each fact came from, refreshed the moment the underlying data changes rather than on a timer.
Why a general chatbot cannot do this
A chatbot starts every conversation from zero, so you re-explain yourself every time and it re-invents the parts you leave out. Career Memory is the opposite arrangement: your material is stored once, in a form built for a model to read, and every tool opens on it. A cover letter, a mock interview and a career report all begin from the same picture of you, and none of them begins from a blank window.
The practical difference
Write a STAR story once and it shows up in your next CV rewrite, your mock interviewer already knows it, and the fit engine counts it as evidence. Nothing you do here is a dead end, which is the part a stack of separate tools cannot reproduce however good each tool is.
What is actually in it
23 blocks. Each one is a short, dense, machine-readable summary of one part of your material, and a tool asks for only the blocks it needs. Empty blocks are left out entirely, so an unfinished profile costs you nothing but reach.
Attested
16Your own data, carried over as you gave it. No model sits between the fact and the block.
- WorkFive DNA
- Your work-style profile across 30 measured facets.
- Career history
- Roles, employers, dates and what you actually did.
- Career archetype
- The archetype derived from your CV, plus the facet shape behind it.
- 360 feedback
- What colleagues said when you collected feedback, including the role they would put you in.
- LinkedIn positioning
- Your headline, About and skills, kept separate from anything we generated for you.
- Story Bank index
- Every STAR story you have written, indexed by the competency it evidences.
- Identity
- Your values, vision, mission and purpose, in your own words.
- Outcomes
- Your active goals and key results, with progress.
- Content themes
- The subjects you have decided to post about.
- Confirmed facts
- Claims you confirmed as true, whether a check flagged them, a document you shared stated them or you said them in an interview, plus the claims you told us never to make about you.
- CV content
- Skills, education, certifications and achievements from every CV you uploaded, kept even after you delete the file.
- What you're looking for
- The roles, places, working mode and salary aim you set for your search. A range you aim for, never your current pay.
- What you sell
- For independents: your positioning line and the offers you sell. Left out unless you work independently.
- What gives you energy
- Which work you rated as giving you energy or draining it, so tools can point you toward the first. Kept apart from what you are good at.
- Who you are becoming
- Your value without job titles, and up to three statements of who you are becoming. Kept as aspirations: never written up as experience.
- Your 30-day experiments
- What you tested before committing, how each step felt and what you decided. Your notes are never in it.
Coach-set
1Set by a human who knows you, so it outranks anything a model inferred. Present only if you work with a coach.
- Coach plan
- The programme, tracks and open tasks your coach assigned. Client-visible material only.
Reviewed draft
2Drafted by AI, then yours to correct. Each entry is marked as edited by you or still untouched.
- Application answers
- The free-text answers you have given employer application forms.
- Your pitch
- The master pitch you saved in Pitch Builder, marked as edited by you or still our draft. It shapes how you are positioned; its claims are never treated as evidence.
AI-derived
4Produced by another feature reading your data, never raw input. Each one carries a visible provenance stamp so downstream tools weight it below anything attested.
- Interview insights
- Recurring strengths and concerns across your real and mock interviews, plus the questions you were actually asked.
- Upskill gaps
- Skill themes that keep recurring across the jobs you track.
- Market worth
- Your benchmarked compensation range.
- Disruption risk
- How exposed your role is to automation.
How it fills without a form
Career Memory fills as a side effect of work you were doing anyway, and nothing a model suggests about you is filed as fact until you have seen it.
- Your CVs
- Every CV you upload or audit, saved or not. What a CV said stays after you delete the file, so tidying your documents never erases your history.
- The system you already keep
- Bring over a spreadsheet, your notes or the career context sitting in an AI chat. You tick every row before it lands, and anything already in your memory wins over the import.
- Questions before a CV is written
- Before a CV is generated for a job, a short pre-flight asks about what the role needs and your material does not yet show. Each answer is kept, so you are never asked the same thing twice.
- What you say in interviews
- After a real or mock interview, concrete statements you made about yourself are offered back to you in your own words. Nothing is stored until you save it.
- Documents about your work
- Performance reviews, reports and references are read into claims, and each one counts only once you confirm it.
- Claims you confirm or reject
- When a check flags a claim your CV cannot support, you can confirm it as true or mark it as never true. A rejection is remembered too, so a later CV, letter or answer does not invent the same claim again.
- The work inside the product
- STAR stories, your WorkFive assessment, Identity answers, goals, 360 feedback, the jobs you track and the feedback from your interviews each fill their own block as you go.
Every fact carries where it came from
The four tiers are a ranking, not a filing system. When two blocks disagree, the higher tier wins, and every tool reading them is told which one wins rather than left to guess.
- 1Coach-setA human decided this. Where the coach's plan conflicts with anything inferred from other blocks, the instruction is to follow the coach.
- 2AttestedYou supplied it or measured it. No model rewrites it on the way in, so it cannot drift.
- 3Reviewed draftWe drafted it, you may have corrected it. An edited entry is your voice, an untouched one is still ours, and the block says which.
- 4AI-derivedA model read your data and concluded something. Stamped with its source and date, and deliberately ranked last.
That last line is the one most systems skip. A conclusion a model drew about you six weeks ago is not the same class of fact as your employment dates, and treating them as equals is how confident nonsense gets written into a cover letter.
Where it is read
Nearly every AI feature in JobMentis opens on your memory, and each one takes only the blocks its job needs.
Applying
- CV rewrites and tailoring
- Cover letters
- Answers to application forms
- Job fit on the roles you track
- Speculative company studies
Interviewing and networking
- Live voice mock interviews
- Feedback on mock and real interviews
- Networking meeting prep
- Intro requests
Positioning
- LinkedIn profile optimization
- LinkedIn posts
- Your pitch
- Your Identity draft
- Offers and client studies for independents
Deciding
- Career reports
- Pathfinder career paths
- Your market worth and offer briefs
- Upskill plans
- Disruption risk
- Suggested target roles
It refreshes on change, not on a timer
Every write that changes your material drops the blocks it affected, so the next tool that asks rebuilds them. There is no refresh interval to sit through and no window where a tool quotes something you already replaced.
Edit it, and it is already gone
Saving an Identity answer, finishing an assessment or confirming a fact clears the affected block on the way out. The next read rebuilds from what you just wrote.
One correction, every tool
There is no per-tool copy of you to chase down. Fix a date in your career history and the next CV, letter and mock interview all read the corrected version.
A safety net, not the plan
If a change were ever missed, stored summaries still expire and rebuild on their own. That is a backstop, never the way you stay current.
The Master Brief: the capstone
On top of the 23 blocks sits one short narrative, a few lines answering who this person is. It is composed from the blocks rather than written from scratch, and rebuilt the moment any source block changes.
- It is what a live voice mock interviewer is given as opening context, which is why the interviewer already knows your history before the first question.
- It is what your coach reads at the top of your client page, with the date it was built shown and a button to rebuild it.
- You never maintain it. It is not a second profile to keep in sync: change the material underneath and the brief follows.
Where it is deliberately not used
A memory that leaks into everything is a liability. Four places refuse it on purpose, and each refusal buys something specific.
Your CV audit score
The audit never reads Career Memory. A score has to be reproducible from the CV alone, so re-auditing an unchanged file returns the same number and a small edit shows up as a real change rather than a random walk.
Coach surveys
Survey answers never enter anyone's profile. A survey is about the programme, not the person, and on an anonymous one, folding answers back into an individual would undo the promise that nobody can trace them.
Your coach's private notes
Only material your coach shares with you reaches the coach block. Their private scratchpad stays private and never becomes context a tool writes from.
Voice rehearsal partners
A networking rehearsal is briefed with an anonymised generic role, never the real name or company of the person you are about to meet.
What unlocks as it fills
The memory is not a form to complete. Each addition is worth something on its own, and the gates below open as a side effect of doing the work.
- Upload your CVCareer archetype, CV audit, and your first optimized assets
- Add 3 jobs and rate themRate 3, or half your roles if that is fewer, and your Light career report generates itself
- Complete WorkFiveMeasured work-style DNA and Pathfinder eligibility
- Write 2 or more STAR storiesFull career report and evidence-backed rewrites
Career Memory against a general assistant
Both will write you a cover letter. The difference is what each one knows and what happens when it is wrong.
| Dimension | General AI assistant | JobMentis |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | An empty window. You paste your context again, or it works without it. | 23 blocks of your material, loaded before the first word is generated. |
| What it retains | Chat-level recall of things you happened to mention, with no structure. | Structured blocks per domain, each one asked for by name by the tools that need it. |
| Where facts rank | Everything said in the thread carries the same weight. | Four tiers. A coach instruction beats your data beats a model's conclusion. |
| When it invents something | Nothing checks it. The invention reads as well as the truth. | A groundedness review flags claims your real CV cannot support, and mutated numbers are reverted automatically. |
| Staying current | You correct it again in the next conversation. | Correct it once. The affected block is dropped and every tool sees the new version. |
Career Memory by the numbers
One profile, read through one entry point
23
blocks of your own material, each requested by name by the tools that need it
4
provenance tiers, so a model's conclusion never outranks a fact you attested
0
guessed refresh timers. A block is dropped the moment its source changes
It is your data, and it leaves when you do
Career Memory holds nothing you did not give us. Every store behind it is registered in our deletion manifest, which means a deletion request removes it rather than orphaning it, and the removal is verified afterwards instead of assumed.
- Your material is scoped to your account, and an organisation client can be placed in a separate database and a separate identity provider entirely.
- Text generation runs in an EU region.
- Deleting your account deletes the blocks, the cached brief and the material underneath them.
Career Memory questions
What is Career Memory?
Career Memory is the persistent profile every AI feature in JobMentis reads before it generates anything. It holds 23 compact blocks built from your own material, from your CV and career history to your work-style assessment, STAR stories, goals and interview feedback, and it is refreshed whenever the underlying data changes.
Is this the same as ChatGPT's memory?
No. A chat assistant's memory is a loose set of things you happened to mention, held at conversation level and weighted equally. Career Memory is structured per domain, requested block by block by the tool that needs it, and ranked in four tiers so a conclusion a model drew never outranks a fact you supplied or an instruction from your coach.
Does every tool see everything?
No. A tool asks for the blocks it needs and gets only those. A cover letter does not need your compensation benchmark, and a salary estimate does not need your content themes. The only surface given the whole picture is the short Master Brief used where the question genuinely is who this person is.
Can I see and change what is in it?
Yes. Account settings > Career Memory shows your blocks exactly as the tools read them, apart from your coach's plan, which you already see as your task list. The view is read-only, because every block is built from material you edit in the product: change a role in your career history, rewrite an Identity answer or correct an application answer, and the affected block is dropped immediately so the next tool rebuilds it from the new version.
What happens when the AI gets something wrong about me?
Two mechanisms. A groundedness review reads generated CVs and cover letters against your actual source material and flags claims it cannot trace, and any number the model changed is reverted automatically before you see it. If the flagged claim is true but simply not on your CV, you confirm it once and it becomes an attested fact that every later tool treats as verified.
Can I tell it that something about me is not true?
Yes. When a check flags a claim, or an interview surfaces a statement you never made, you can mark it as not true. That rejection is kept in your memory alongside your confirmed facts, so later CVs, cover letters and application answers are steered away from it, and a CV that repeats it is flagged for you.
Does my salary target end up in what I send to employers?
No. The salary you aim for is held as a range with a standing instruction attached: never quote it, and never put it in anything you send to an employer. It is there so tools understand what you are looking for, not so they can repeat it.
Does my coach see my Career Memory?
A coach you have connected to sees the Master Brief summary on your client page, with the date it was built. The reverse is not symmetrical: what your coach assigns you becomes part of your memory, but their private notes about you never do.
Where is it stored, and can I delete it?
It is stored against your account, an organisation client can be placed in entirely separate infrastructure, and text generation runs in an EU region. Every store behind Career Memory is listed in our deletion manifest, so deleting your account removes the blocks, the cached summary and the source material, and the deletion is verified after it runs.
Your memory starts with one upload
Upload a CV and three blocks fill straight away: your career history, your CV content and, once your first audit runs, your career archetype. Everything after that compounds.
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