Claude skills for job search: 18 skills, free pack

The 18 skills you get

The pack is grouped into six stages. They run in the order a real job search does — position first, negotiate last — but every skill is also useful on its own. Most people start with one stage, the one that’s hurting right now.

Profile & Positioning

Use these before you send a single application. Most searches stall because the target is too wide, not because the CV is weak. So these skills fix the target first: a clear role, the market’s words for it, and a profile a recruiter can place in five seconds.

Career Audit reads your CV and past work and returns the honest baseline: the roles you’re strongest for, ranked, with evidence for each. Target Role Finder translates your current title into the three to five titles recruiters actually type into search. LinkedIn Profile Rewrite turns both into a new headline, an About section and three experience bullets built around those searches. Specific, evidence-led and readable in one scroll.

Search & Discovery

Use these when the jobs tab is eating your evenings. Fresh roles first, hidden roles second, and a hard filter on which ones are worth your time.

Role Scan checks new postings every hour against your filters and returns a ranked shortlist, so you see a role the morning it goes live, not the week after. Hiring Post Finder searches the feed for “we’re hiring” posts from people in your field: the roles that never reach a job board. Fit Score rates every role from 1 to 5 across fit, level, pay and red flags, so you apply to the ten that matter instead of the fifty that don’t.

Applications

Use these once you’ve picked a role. Every application should read like it was written for that job, because it was. The rule is simple: the posting’s language, your real experience, nothing invented.

CV Tailor rewrites your CV around the role’s keywords and returns a clean PDF that clears the ATS and survives the six-second skim. Cover Letter writes three short paragraphs that open with the company, not with you, in under ten minutes. Application Answers drafts the open questions on long forms in your voice, ready to paste and edit.

Outreach & Network

Use these when applying alone isn’t enough. A message to the right person moves an application from the pile to a conversation, as long as it’s short, specific and sent at the right time.

Hiring Manager Finder identifies who owns the role: the hiring manager, the recruiter and one peer worth contacting. Outreach Message writes a three-sentence note under 300 characters that talks about their team, not your CV. Follow-up tells you when to chase and writes the follow-up: polite, short and easy to answer.

Interviews

Use these once a recruiter replies. Preparation beats talent in most interview loops, and these skills make preparation repeatable: research first, stories second, practice last.

Interview Prep builds a one-page brief on the company, the role, the interviewers and the questions you’re most likely to get. Story Bank turns your experience into six STAR stories and maps each one to the behavioural questions it answers. Mock Interview runs a live practice round and gives feedback after every answer: structure, length, evidence and the one thing to fix.

Offer & Negotiation

Use these when an offer is close. The first number is rarely the best one, and the people who ask for more usually get some of it.

Salary Research builds a realistic range for the role, level and city, with sources and a target number you can defend. Negotiation Script writes the call script and the counter email, with fallbacks for every likely answer. Offer Comparison puts competing offers side by side, across pay, growth, risk and fit, and ends with a clear recommendation.

Stages 1 and 2 sharpen what you’re aiming for and where to find it. Stages 3 and 4 turn a role into an application a human actually reads. Stages 5 and 6 get you through the interview and to the best possible offer.

Setup guide

1. Get the pack and open Settings

   Download the pack and unzip it so each skill stays in its own folder with its SKILL.md file. In Claude, open your profile menu and select Settings.

2. Open Skills and start an upload

   In Settings, select Skills. Open Add and choose Upload a skill.

3. Upload one skill file

   Open one skill folder and drag its SKILL.md into the upload window. Repeat for each skill you want — you don’t need all 18 on day one.

4. Check it was added

   Go back to the Skills list and make sure the skill appears. Select its name to open it.

5. Review and switch it on

   Read the skill’s name, description and instructions, then make sure its switch is on. That’s it — Claude will use it whenever your request matches.

Try a skill

Tell Claude which skill to use and give it the relevant files or context — your CV, the job post, the recruiter’s message. Review every output before you send it.

“Use the cv-tailor skill to rewrite my CV for this Stripe Product Designer posting.”

“Use the fit-score skill on these 12 roles and tell me which 3 to apply to today.”

“Use the outreach-message skill to write to the person who posted this hiring update.”

“Use the negotiation-script skill — I have an offer at €150k and want €170k.”

How to choose a job search skill

Skip the guesswork. Each skill maps to one specific need, so find the row that matches where you’re stuck and use that skill.

Not sure where you’re stuck? Start with Career Audit and Fit Score. Most job searches stall because the target is too wide, not because the CV is too weak.

The quality bar

Every skill pushes Claude toward output that a good recruiter or career coach would sign off on before it leaves your hands.

• Specific to this role
• True to your real experience
• Evidence over adjectives
• A number in every claim
• Readable in 6 seconds
• ATS-safe by default
• In your voice, not a template
• Short enough to be read
• One clear ask
• Honest about gaps
• Ready to send, not to edit
• Reviewed by you before it goes