AI job search with Claude

Claude is good at the writing part of a job search: tailoring a resume, drafting a cover letter and practicing interview answers. It does not find open jobs and apply to them every day on its own. Salvo (sendsalvo.com) does that part, and it connects to Claude so you can ask Claude how your search is going.

What Claude does well

Claude reads long text and writes clear text. A job search is mostly long text: job posts, resumes, cover letters and interview notes. Four jobs fit it well.

1. Tailoring a resume to one job post.
2. Writing a short cover letter that names the job and shows proof.
3. Turning a job post into practice interview questions.
4. Explaining a job post in plain words, so you know if it fits before you spend an hour on it.

Each of these takes one chat and a few minutes.

Prompts that work

These prompts keep Claude to your own facts. Paste your resume and the full job post into the chat first.

For a resume: "Reorder and reword the bullets in my resume to match this job post. Do not add any employer, title, date, degree, skill or result I did not give you. Keep it to one page. List what you changed."

For a cover letter: "Write a cover letter for this job in under 200 words. Use three of my bullets as proof. No phrases like 'I am excited to apply'. Plain words."

For interviews: "Give me 12 interview questions this hiring manager is likely to ask, based on the job post. For each one, tell me which part of my resume answers it."

For fit: "Which parts of this job post do I meet, which do I miss, and is anything in the post a warning sign, like no pay range or a vague company name?"

Read every line Claude writes before you send it. Claude can still word something in a way that stretches the truth, and you are the one who answers for it in the interview.

Where Claude stops

Claude works inside a chat. It does not keep a list of open jobs, it does not check each morning for new ones, and it does not track which jobs you already applied to. With a browser add-on, Claude can fill one application form while you watch. You still find the job, sign in to each company's hiring site, fix the answers it guessed and click submit.

That is fine for 5 jobs. It breaks down at 50. Most people who apply by hand stop after a few days, because every form asks the same questions in a new layout.

Where Salvo fits

Salvo is the part that runs every day without you.

• It finds jobs that fit your titles, pay and place.
• It writes a new resume for each job from your own history, and keeps your employers, titles and dates exact.
• It fills in the form and applies on the company's own site.
• It saves a receipt for every application, so you can see what went out.
• It sorts the replies, so interview requests come to the top.

You can start free with no card. It stays free until your 2nd interview request.

Use Salvo inside Claude

Salvo has a connector for Claude. A connector lets Claude talk to an outside app on your behalf after you sign in. To add it:

1. In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector.
2. Name it Salvo and paste https://sendsalvo.com/mcp as the address.
3. Click Add, then Connect, and sign in with your Salvo email and the code we send you.
4. In a chat, turn Salvo on from the menu.

Then ask in plain words: "How is my job search going today?", "Do I have any interview requests?", "Which companies confirmed my application?" or "Pause my search until Monday." The full steps are on the Salvo connector page.

A good split

Here is how the two fit together for most people.

Use Claude when you want to think out loud about one job or one interview. Let Salvo do the daily applying.

Free checkers that need no AI

If you want a fast check without a chat, Salvo has free checkers that run in your browser: a resume match checker, a cover letter maker and an interview question maker. Nothing you paste is sent anywhere.

Mistakes to avoid

• Adding skills you don't have. If the job wants SQL and you have never used it, leave it off. A missing word costs you less than a question you can't answer.
• Sending one resume to every job. Claude makes tailoring quick, so tailor. A resume that matches the post moves up in a recruiter's search.
• Writing long cover letters. Hiring managers skim.
• Pasting private data the task doesn't need. Your resume needs your work history. It does not need your home address or your Social Security or passport details to be tailored.

Bottom line

Claude is a strong writing partner for a job search. It is not a job search on its own. Pair it with something that finds jobs and applies every day. To have Salvo do the applying, sign up free in 2 minutes.

Related

• How to auto tailor your resume with AI
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• AI interview prep: how it works and what to use
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