Claude Sonnet 5.5 for Job Search

Use AI to improve your application, never to fabricate it.

A strong job search is not a volume game. It is a system: find the right roles, understand the employer, make a truthful case, and improve from evidence.

Important: web search can make research current, but always verify that a vacancy is active on the employer's official careers page before applying.

• Upload your career information
• Define your target role
• Find current opportunities
• Research the company
• Analyze the job description
• Compare with your experience
• Tailor truthfully
• Write a focused cover letter
• Contact relevant people
• Prepare and practice
• Follow up professionally
• Track, learn, improve

Create a dedicated Claude Project called Job Search. Add your latest resume, LinkedIn profile, portfolio, work samples, certifications, career achievements, target roles, preferred industries and locations, salary expectations, and target companies. Add instructions covering your experience, goals, voice, and priorities. This gives Claude reusable context.

Based on my resume, skills, experience, interests, and career goals, identify the job titles and types of companies that best match my profile. Explain why each role fits and identify any major skill gaps.

Ask for best-fit and adjacent titles, target industries, ideal company types, seniority, transferable skills, pivots, and gaps to close.

Search the web for currently available [ROLE] opportunities in [LOCATION]. Prioritize positions matching my experience in [SKILLS]. For each role, summarize the company, responsibilities, requirements, location, and why it matches my profile.

Verify every vacancy on the employer's official careers page.

Research [COMPANY] and create a job-seeker briefing covering its products, business model, customers, competitors, recent developments, culture, values, and anything relevant to someone applying for [ROLE].

Then ask: What parts of my background should I emphasize? Make every application specific.

Paste the complete description.

Analyze this job description. Extract key responsibilities, required and preferred skills, tools, experience requirements, important keywords, business problems this person will solve, and employer priorities.

Then compare it with your resume.

Compare this job description against my resume. Identify strong matches, partial matches, missing requirements, transferable experience, and areas where I need stronger evidence. Do not invent qualifications I don't have.

Use the output to decide what deserves emphasis.

Tailor my resume for this position while remaining completely truthful. Prioritize the experience, achievements, skills, and keywords most relevant to the job description. Use concise, specific language and quantify achievements only when supported by my original information.

Never invent: employers, titles, dates, skills, certifications, responsibilities, revenue numbers, metrics, or achievements.

Weak: “Managed social media accounts.”

Rewrite this resume bullet to emphasize ownership, scope, actions, and measurable business impact. Do not invent metrics.

Great bullets explain what you did, how, scale, and result.

Review my resume against this job description and identify terminology or skills from the posting that genuinely apply to my experience but are missing or underrepresented.

Use relevant words naturally—never keyword-stuff or add skills you cannot demonstrate.

Write a concise cover letter for this position using my resume and the job description. Focus on why I fit this specific role, connect my strongest achievements to the company's needs, and avoid generic language or unsupported claims.

Ask Claude to remove clichés, repetition, and unnecessary formality.

Give Claude your profile and target roles. Improve headline, About, experience descriptions, Featured, skills, search keywords, and positioning.

Optimize my LinkedIn profile for recruiters hiring [TARGET ROLE]. Keep every claim accurate and make my value proposition immediately clear.

Using my background, create a natural 30-second introduction explaining who I am, what I specialize in, my strongest proof of work, and what opportunity I'm looking for.

Make versions for recruiters, hiring managers, networking events, LinkedIn DMs, and interviews.

Share context about the person, then draft recruiter messages, hiring-manager outreach, referral and alumni requests, networking notes, follow-ups, and thank-yous. Keep each short, personal, specific, and respectful.

Upload the resume and description.

Act as the hiring manager for this position. Generate the most likely interview questions based on the job description, company, and my resume.

Practice behavioral, technical, role-specific, situational, leadership, resume, transition, and salary questions.

Conduct a realistic interview for this role. Ask one question at a time. Wait for my response before continuing. After each answer, critique its clarity, relevance, evidence, and structure, then suggest how I could improve it.

Do not memorize Claude's answers; improve your own thinking and communication.

Prepare Situation → Task → Action → Result stories for leadership, conflict, failure, problem-solving, initiative, collaboration, difficult decisions, achievements, and deadlines.

Turn my real experience below into a concise STAR interview answer. Preserve the facts and do not invent details.

Where appropriate, use public professional information to understand their role, career background, expertise, recent work, and likely discussion areas. Avoid sensitive or irrelevant personal information.

Based on this role and company, create thoughtful questions I can ask the interviewer that help me understand expectations, team structure, challenges, success metrics, culture, and growth opportunities.

Interviewing is also your chance to evaluate the employer.

Research current compensation where reliable data exists, then practice expected pay, offers, base, bonus, equity, benefits, remote work, joining date, and competing offers. Treat online estimates as reference points—not guarantees.

Ask Claude to structure the full loop: discover, research, prioritize, analyze, tailor, apply, network, follow up, interview, track, review, and improve.

Analyze my job-search funnel. Identify where I'm losing opportunities and suggest experiments for improving my results.

Track jobs discovered, applications, referrals, replies, screens, interviews, final rounds, and offers. Few interviews? Review targeting, relevance, and positioning. Poor progression? Review interview performance and fit.

Review my entire job-search strategy critically. Identify weak assumptions, missing opportunities, skill gaps, positioning problems, and the three highest-impact actions I should take next.

Ask Claude to challenge your plan, not merely agree with it.

• Find the strongest career opportunities that match my background and explain why.
• Analyze this job description and identify what the employer actually cares about most.
• Compare my resume with this role and show me my strongest matches and biggest gaps.
• Tailor my resume for this position without inventing or exaggerating anything.
• Research this company and tell me what I should understand before applying.
• Create a concise, personalized message to the hiring manager based only on information I provide or verified public information.
• Generate likely interview questions for this exact position.
• Conduct a realistic mock interview with me one question at a time.
• Critique my interview answer and help me make it clearer, more specific, and evidence-based.
• Analyze my job-search funnel and identify what I should improve first.