Data Center Coop Watch

Data Center Co-op Watch

Overview

Find and triage public data-center-related leads without mixing them into university portal submission workflow. This skill handles discovery, scoring, hard-gate review, and local saving.

Use $ats-resume-tailor for concrete resume tailoring and $external-coop-apply for employer portal execution. Use $oscarplus-coop-apply only for university portal postings or upload/submission steps.

Boundaries

• Do not log into job boards, bypass gated pages, scrape credentials, upload documents, or submit applications.
• Prefer official company pages. Use mirrors only for discovery; mark manual-company-check.
• Do not assume full-time, trainee, apprentice, or technician roles count as co-op. Mark manual-review until eligibility, hours, dates, pay, and employer documentation are clear.
• Save only useful or watch-worthy leads.
• Default to software/infrastructure adjacency first: cloud/platform, network automation, observability, monitoring, backend/internal tools, data platforms, AI infrastructure, and infrastructure testing.
• Promote pure hardware/facility roles only when student, intern, co-op, trainee, junior, entry-level, paid training, or recruiter-confirmed compatibility is plausible.

Private Sources

Read from private career-config.json:

1. paths.jobQueue
2. paths.resumeSystem
3. paths.resumeSummary
4. paths.jobLeadsDir

Read references/employer-watchlist.md when the task mentions hyperscalers, cloud infrastructure, paid training, data centers, facility operations, critical environment, power, cooling, network operations, or infrastructure monitoring.

Workflow

1. Establish scope.

   • Use term, geography, target roles, and preferred lanes from config unless the user overrides them.

2. De-duplicate.

   • Read queue IDs and existing digest rows.
   • Treat same company + similar title + same city as likely duplicate.

3. Search current public sources.

   • Official careers pages first.
   • Mirrors only for discovery or when official pages block indexing.
   • If current availability cannot be verified, mark manual-company-check or watch-only.

4. Hard-gate.

   • Mark skip for expired, clearly senior-only, unpaid, unrelated, or legally impossible roles.
   • Mark manual-review for unclear term dates, full-time labels, clearance, residency/citizenship, bilingual requirements, driver/vehicle, relocation, rotating shift, or heavy electrical/mechanical credentials.

5. Score:

priority = resume_fit * 0.40 + co_op_legality * 0.25 + software_infra_fit * 0.15 + salary * 0.10 + city * 0.05 + brand_or_referral * 0.05 - friction

Caps:

• Hardware/facility roles requiring 2+ years, trade credentials, maintenance ownership, or deep rack/cabling cap at 3.4 unless student/trainee compatibility is explicit.
• Senior facility ownership, licensed trades, or project manager scope cap at 3.1 unless the user wants salary intelligence only.
• Software infrastructure co-ops can exceed 4.2 even when data-center-adjacent rather than physically in a data center.

Thresholds:

• apply-now: 4.2+ and no hard gate.
• fit-check: 3.7+ and details mostly clear.
• manual-review: high upside with unresolved gate.
• lead-inbox: useful watch target.
• skip: low fit, expired, or blocked.

Resume Lane Selection

Use lanes from private config. Typical choices:

• software-data: cloud/devops, infrastructure DevOps, network automation, monitoring, observability, AI tools, backend, database, analytics, internal platforms.
• industrial-automation-ot: data center technician, critical environment intern, facility operations intern, power/cooling monitoring, BMS/BAS/EPMS data workflows, network hardware test automation.
• domain-specialist: energy, utilities, process systems, or other candidate-specific domain.

For concrete tailoring, invoke $ats-resume-tailor.

Saving Contract

Append a lead object to the private queue only when new and useful:

{
  "id": "public-<company>-<role-slug>-<location-or-requisition>-YYYYMMDD",
  "company": "",
  "role": "",
  "date": "YYYY-MM-DD",
  "status": "fit-check | manual-review | lead-inbox | watch-only | skip",
  "source": "public-company-page | public-job-board/manual-company-check",
  "sourceUrl": "",
  "fitScore": 4.1,
  "resumeVersion": "software-data",
  "hardGates": [],
  "feedback": "",
  "next": ""
}

Output Contract

Report:

• what was saved and where
• top leads in priority order
• company, title, location, pay if known, status, lane, match reason, and hard gates
• which facts are from official pages versus mirrors
• soft infrastructure matches separately from hardware/facility exceptions