How Claude Turned a Personal Job Hunt Into a Working Product
After being laid off for the first time in March, a financial-markets professional used Claude to build a personal job-search tool that grew into a real product. They first gave Claude one long file covering their , technologies, and past roles. Claude organized it into a master resume, asked questions to fill gaps, and suggested fitting job titles and roles they had not considered.
Searches on , Indeed, and other sites returned too many irrelevant listings because the person's was specialized. Claude was then used to build a small program that collected openings from several financial technology companies' hiring pages and saved them in a CSV file. To reduce the remaining noise, the tool ranked jobs against the person's , scored titles and descriptions separately, and lowered listings containing unwanted words.
Claude eventually placed these controls in a simple visual app screen.
Key points
- Put the complete career history in one file before asking Claude to organize it.
- Used Claude's questions to fill gaps and find overlooked job roles.
- Collected specialized openings from company hiring pages into a CSV file.
- Scored job titles and descriptions separately and lowered results with unwanted words.
- Added a visual screen for using and adjusting the tool.