candidate-voice

Candidate Voice — written voice, spoken voice, prep structure, and the voice audit

Setup note: This is a template skeleton. At setup, populate the three reference files from the candidate's completed style guides (Setup Orchestrator Phase 2 produces them), and replace [Candidate Name] / [Candidate First Name] throughout. Rename the skill if you prefer (e.g. jane-voice) — update the name: field and every reference to it in Project_Instructions.md.

This skill is the canonical home for the candidate's voice and structural templates. Four modes.

Mode 1 — Writing voice (APPLY)

For any written deliverable the candidate will sign. Load references/style-guide.md and apply it as the style baseline: tone register, sentence rhythm, banned constructions, evidence-first discipline, fit-acknowledgment style.

Mode 2 — Interview voice (spoken delivery)

For spoken-response drafting and rehearsal. Load references/interview-style-guide.md. It carries voice consistency from the writing guide plus spoken-delivery adjustments: pause markers, spoken cadence, drop lists, and timing at the candidate's actual measured words-per-minute.

Mode 3 — Interview-prep structure

For generating a prep document. Load references/interview-prep-template.md — the canonical twelve-section structure (front-matter; executive summary as a decision instrument; company context; operating entities; panel and individual research; structural-reality analysis; opening script; likely-questions table; STAR responses; practicalities; calibrated questions for the panel; sources), plus the two cross-cutting disciplines: §R research disciplines (the confidence ladder, source-authority ranking, inference labelling, handling markers, per-round hygiene) and §X cross-artefact consistency (reconcile every spoken answer against everything already submitted for the role). The research sections sit before the scripts deliberately — a pack that writes the scripts first has written them without the research.