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Job Application Assistant

Evaluates job postings and drafts tailored CVs, cover letters and interview prep from your profile.

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Repository
ai-job-search-dev/ai-job-search
Stars
68,902
Licence
MIT
Files
10 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent can read a job posting, score how well it fits your background, and draft a tailored LaTeX CV and cover letter based on your saved profile and writing rules. It can also research the company, prepare STAR-style interview answers, and draft questions for the interviewer. It is designed so job-posting text is treated as untrusted data, not as instructions, and it runs a guard script on fetched postings before evaluating them.

Great for

  • Job seekers who want a structured fit assessment before spending time on an application
  • People who already keep a LaTeX CV and profile files and want consistent, tailored variants per role
  • Candidates preparing for interviews who want practice answers grounded in their own experience

Skip it if

  • Anyone who has not filled in the candidate profile files: the output will be generic or inaccurate without them
  • Fully automated submission of applications: the skill drafts documents and records them, but the instructions do not describe submitting to employer portals, and the user should review all text for accuracy and tone before sending
  • Sensitive or confidential job-search situations where web research on the employer and fetching postings is undesirable, since it sends requests to websites

Try asking

  • “Evaluate this job posting: https://example.com/careers/data-analyst and tell me if I should apply”
  • “Write a CV for the product manager role at Acme Corp based on my profile”
  • “Write a cover letter for the research engineer position at this company, following my writing style rules”
  • “Help me prepare for an interview at a fintech startup, with STAR answers and questions to ask them”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Job Application AssistantInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 10 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    job-application-assistant.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip job-application-assistant.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip job-application-assistant.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Fill in 01-candidate-profile.md and 03-writing-style.md first; the quality of every output depends on them
  • Review the posting_guard verdict and any warnings before trusting an evaluation, and check every claim the agent makes about the company
  • Always proofread generated CVs and cover letters for factual accuracy before submitting them to an employer

What's inside

  • 01-candidate-profile.md
  • 02-behavioral-profile.md
  • 03-writing-style.md
  • 04-job-evaluation.md
  • 05-cv-templates.md
  • 06-cover-letter-templates.md
  • 07-interview-prep.md
  • 08-application-forms.md
  • 09-web-research.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from ai-job-search-dev/ai-job-search under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.