What do I need to use Informational-Interview Prep?

Your goal; The person; Your background; The format; Where you are.

Is Informational-Interview Prep free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Informational-Interview Prep

Q: How do I know the Informational-Interview Prep output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Outreach asks for a short chat to learn, not a job; Questions are tuned to the goal and not Google-able; Guidance centers the other person's story; Explicitly warns against turning it into a job pitch.

🔵 Stable 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-career

Prepare for an informational interview — the outreach, the questions, and the follow-up — so a 20-minute chat actually helps your career instead of wasting their time. Use when asked to prep for an informational interview, questions to ask someone in [field], how to reach out for a career chat, or coffee chat prep. Produces a low-friction outreach message, a focused question set tuned to your goal (exploring a field, breaking in, a specific company), how to run the conversation, what NOT to do (don't ask for a job), and a follow-up that keeps the relationship warm.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft ⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet) 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Help me prep for an informational interview with someone in product management.”“What should I ask someone whose career I want to learn about?”“How do I reach out for a coffee chat without it being weird?”“I have a call with someone at a company I'm interested in — what do I ask?”“Questions for an informational interview to help me break into a field.”

What to give it

▸Your goal — exploring a field, trying to break in, targeting a company/role, or broad learning

▸The person — who they are, their role, and your connection (if any)

▸Your background — enough to tailor relevant questions

▸The format — call, coffee, video, and how long

▸Where you are — early exploration vs. active job search (changes tone)

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Outreach asks for a short chat to learn, not a job

✓Questions are tuned to the goal and not Google-able

✓Guidance centers the other person's story

✓Explicitly warns against turning it into a job pitch

✓Includes a specific, relationship-building follow-up

✓Notes what to research beforehand

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Opening with a job ask** or angling for one.

**Generic questions** answerable by a quick search.

**Dominating** or making it about you.

**Showing up unprepared** about the person.

**No follow-up** — wasting the connection.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

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