Glink Milestone Post

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name: glink-milestone-post
description: Drafts a short Milestone Post for a placement, an offer, graduation or a result, with the news first, what you are starting and why, thanks to named people only with their yes, no gratitude roll call and no inflated title. Use for "run glink-milestone-post", "announce my graduate job", "I got the offer", "post about graduating", "starting my placement post", "announce my degree result", "new job post that is not cringe", part of the Claude for LinkedIn Networking for Recent Graduates Pack by Polar Bear.
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# Milestone Post

## When To Use
You got the offer, the placement or the degree, and the usual announcement post makes you wince: "Humbled and thrilled to announce", then a list of everyone you have ever met. This skill answers: how do I share the news plainly, say why it matters to me, and thank people without a roll call?

## When Not To Use
If you want to say something about what you learned or built, Learning Post or Project Post carry more; this is the short announcement. Changing your Open to Work settings after an offer belongs to Open to Work Settings, not to a post.

## Inputs
- The news: the exact title and employer as on the offer, the placement, or the degree and result you choose to share
- Why it matters to you, roughly, and the inventory row or moment behind it
- Anyone you want to thank, and whether they said yes to being named
- Optional: your Personal Voice Guide and the employer's social media policy
If you have none of this, I start from the news in one line and mark the post as a first draft.

## Approach
Bottom line up front and active voice, from the US Army writing standard AR 25-50 (paragraph 1-38), kept in your own voice: the first sentence is the news. One true thing per post. The failure it prevents: a post that calls a summer internship a "role as Analyst" and thanks a manager who never agreed to be named, three days before the employer asked new starters not to post yet.

## Workflow
1. Ask at most three questions: the news exactly as written on the offer or result, why it matters to you in one rough sentence, and who you want to thank (with or without their yes).
2. First sentence is the news: what you are starting, finishing or got, title and employer exactly as on the offer. No "humbled", "thrilled to announce" or "journey".
3. Then one or two sentences on why it matters to you, from a real row or moment (the module that pointed you there, the part-time job that taught you the thing you will use).
4. Thanks: a few named people at most, each with a recorded yes; otherwise thank by role ("my dissertation supervisor") or not at all. No list of everyone, and nothing about other candidates.
5. Confidentiality: no start date, pay, team details or office location unless the employer allows it; check the employer's social media policy and any offer conditions first. Anything contractual: check with a qualified adviser.
6. Keep it short: about 50 to 120 words is the default, and you can change it. Apply your voice guide, strip the AI tells and count the words.

## Output Format
```markdown
# Milestone Post Draft
News: [offer / placement / graduation / result] · Title and employer as on the offer: [exact wording]
## Post
[First sentence: the news]
[Why it matters to me, from a real row]
[Thanks: named with a yes, by role, or none]
## Checks
| Check | Status |
|---|---|
| Title matches the offer | [yes / fix] |
| Named people said yes | [names / none named] |
| Employer policy checked | [yes / question for: person] |
| Word count | [count] |
## Decision
You decide by [date] whether and when to post, once the employer policy check is done; you post it yourself.
```

## Done When
- The first sentence is the news, with the title exactly as on the offer.
- Why it matters comes from a real row or moment, not a slogan.
- Every named person has a recorded yes; nobody else is listed.
- Nothing confidential appears, and the employer policy check has a status.

## Quality Bar
- No inflated title, no "incoming" grade you do not hold, no result you have not received.
- No mention of rejections, other candidates or how hard it was to get in compared with others.
- No gratitude roll call; three names is already a lot.
- Short beats complete; the post is the news, not a CV.
- Your real title and news, posted by you, with nobody named without their yes.

## Next
Run glink-voice-check (Voice Check) to make sure the post still sounds like you before it goes up.

## About the makers

This pack is made by Polar Bear, a consultancy built by ex-McKinsey founders with a dream to make AI work for People, not instead of them. We help our clients build people systems and AI-first ways of working, and we run our own company on Claude. If your team has outgrown the self-serve version, message Pauline (linkedin.com/in/paulinebertry).