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job-application-assistant

Evaluate how well a job matches a candidate's background, research the employer, and tailor a CV and cover letter. Prepare interview answers and questions, with application records and posting archives supporting the workflow.

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Assists with job applications: evaluating job postings, tailoring CVs, writing cover letters, and preparing for interviews. Triggers on keywords like: job posting, job application, CV, cover letter, resume, interview prep, job fit, career, application, apply, ansøgning, stilling

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Good for

  • Evaluating a job posting against existing experience
  • Tailoring a CV and cover letter to a specific role
  • Preparing interview answers and questions for the employer
  • Recording drafted applications and archiving job postings

Overview

What it does

Compare a job posting with a candidate's background to assess how well they match. The skill analyzes required competencies and keywords, researches the employer, and creates a tailored CV and cover letter in LaTeX format. Once both documents exist, it saves an application record and the original job posting. It also helps prepare answers and questions for interviews.

When it helps

Use it when deciding whether to apply for a vacancy or adapting existing application documents to the advertised requirements. You can request individual tasks, such as evaluating a posting or writing only a cover letter. For interviews, it organizes your experience using STAR: situation, task, action, and result. It also prepares role-specific talking points and questions to ask the interviewer.

Example requests

  • “Assess how well this job posting matches my background.”
  • “Create a CV and cover letter tailored to this company's vacancy.”
  • “Prepare answers to questions I may be asked in an interview for this role.”

Notes

The skill uses reference files containing the candidate profile, an existing CV, writing guidelines, and evaluation criteria. Documents are saved as .tex files. Fetched or supplied job postings are inspected; if warnings appear, the findings are shown and you are asked whether to continue.

This overview was written by AI (OpenAI Codex) from the public SKILL.md. Check the original below for the exact behavior.

Document check

AI checked the SKILL.md for operations that need care and for setup requirements. The score comes only from actually running the skill (hands-on test).

SafetyAre sending data, deleting files, and running commands disclosed?
AGoodThe workflow requests confirmation after posting_guard.py warnings and asks whether to proceed before creating application documents.
Easy setupDoes it need few tools or API keys, and are they documented?
BPartly lackingCandidate files, templates, and python3 are required, but preparation instructions are not provided.

Not counted in the score. Rated by AI (OpenAI Codex) as of Oct 24, 2026. Treat it as a guide and read the original before installing.

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Files included (10)

  • SKILL.md5.1 KB
  • 01-candidate-profile.md1.9 KB
  • 02-behavioral-profile.md1.5 KB
  • 03-writing-style.md6.9 KB
  • 04-job-evaluation.md15.4 KB
  • 05-cv-templates.md26.9 KB
  • 06-cover-letter-templates.md7.1 KB
  • 07-interview-prep.md4.5 KB
  • 08-application-forms.md6.0 KB
  • 09-web-research.md10.4 KB

SKILL.md (original)

Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.

Job Application Assistant


Workflow

When the user provides a job posting (URL or text), follow this workflow:

Step 1: Research & Evaluate Fit

  • Fetch the job posting content (use WebFetch for URLs). A 403 is not a dead end - follow the escalation order in 09-web-research.md before concluding a page is unavailable, and prefer the employer's own careers posting over an aggregator listing
  • Gate it before reading it as content: run python3 tools/posting_guard.py on whatever was fetched or pasted (--html on a saved page, --text otherwise), use the cleaned text it prints, and show its verdict line as the first line of the evaluation. /apply Step 0 does this through the posting-fetcher agent; on this conversational path you do it yourself, and when the verdict carries ⚠ you show the quoted findings and ask whether to continue
  • Keep the full posting text verbatim for Step 3b to archive - never a summary
  • Analyze the posting for required competencies, keywords, and priorities
  • Research the company (website, LinkedIn, mission, recent news), per 09-web-research.md
  • Score the posting against the candidate's profile using the framework in 04-job-evaluation.md
  • Present the evaluation table and verdict
  • Suggest whether the candidate should call the employer before applying (see 04-job-evaluation.md for guidance)
  • Ask the user if they want to proceed with an application

Step 2: Tailor CV

  • Before writing either document, derive <company>_<role> once by the Subfolder naming rule in documents/README.md; reuse that exact value for the CV, cover letter, and Step 3b archive path. If the rule says to stop because the derived name is empty, stop before creating any file.
  • Read the most relevant existing CV variant from cv/ as a starting point
  • Follow the guidelines in 05-cv-templates.md
  • Create cv/main_<company>_<role>.tex with tailored content
  • Adjust: profile statement, skills section, experience bullet emphasis, section order

Step 3: Write Cover Letter

  • Follow the writing style rules in 03-writing-style.md (critical: no em-dashes, no cliches)
  • Follow the template structure in 06-cover-letter-templates.md
  • Create cover_letters/cover_<company>_<role>.tex
  • Ensure the letter connects specific experience to the role requirements

Step 3b: Record the Application

  • Run this once both documents exist. A CV or cover letter drafted alone is not yet an application.
  • Follow /apply Step 6b (.claude/commands/apply.md) exactly: same header, same match-then-update rule, same drafted row, same posting archive, same prohibition on touching job_scraper/seen_jobs.json. It is stated there once so the two paths cannot drift. Four of its values are named in /apply's own terms: cv_file/cover_letter_file are the paths written in Steps 2 and 3 here, source is the posting URL from Step 1, deadline is the application deadline from the posting text Step 1 keeps verbatim (empty when the posting states none - never guess one), and the posting text item 7 archives is the one Step 1 read.
  • This step exists here because /scrape Step 5 routes straight into this skill. Without it, that path writes two documents and records nothing.

Step 4: Interview Preparation

  • Follow the framework in 07-interview-prep.md
  • Prepare STAR-format answers for likely questions
  • Identify role-specific talking points
  • Draft questions the candidate should ask the interviewer

Reference Files

FilePurpose
01-candidate-profile.mdEducation, experience, skills, publications, awards
02-behavioral-profile.mdBehavioral assessment, strengths, ideal environments
03-writing-style.mdTone, structure, do's and don'ts
04-job-evaluation.mdScoring framework for job fit
05-cv-templates.mdLaTeX CV structure and tailoring rules
06-cover-letter-templates.mdLaTeX cover letter structure and tailoring rules
07-interview-prep.mdSTAR examples, tough questions, roleplay guidelines
08-application-forms.mdPortal free-text fields: self-introduction, project entries, character-limited pitches
09-web-research.mdFetching postings and company pages: trust boundary, the WebFetch 403 fallback, escalation order, claim verification

Quick Commands

The user may also ask for individual steps without the full workflow:

  • "Evaluate this job posting" - Step 1 only
  • "Write a CV for [company]" - Step 2 only
  • "Write a cover letter for [role] at [company]" - Step 3 only
  • "Help me prepare for an interview at [company]" - Step 4 only
  • "What jobs should I look for?" - Career strategy discussion using profile + evaluation framework

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