Build Your Own AI Job Search Engine with Claude

2026-10-30

If you are in the job market and wondering how to use AI for your job search, come along and build your own AI job search engine with me in a Claude project. Learn by doing is the best way to learn anything. By the end, you'll have a project you can talk about coherently when you're asked how you actually use AI, and it might spark ideas for other projects in your life. I build it live with Claude Projects for our fictional candidate, Alex. This automated job search finds jobs every morning, lets me approve or pass on them, drafts a tailored resume and cover letter I can edit right in Claude, and stages LinkedIn networking with connection notes and coffee chat invitations. I never auto-send anything. It's drafts and open tabs only, and it learns from what I actually send. Alex's resource guide (template resume, tailored resume, cover letter, and job description): https://biotechcareercoach.com/alex/story Get the whole template for this project in the AI project in our Biotech Career Coach Skool community classroom. Steal the project files, build your own, and get your done-for-you resume. 7-day free trial. https://www.skool.com/biotech-career-coach/about Wispr Flow free month (my number one productivity tool): https://wisprflow.ai/r?CARINA1 Learn more about the Collaboratory Career Hub community and access our free resources: Join our Skool Community Take the Free 7-day Interview Sprint Challenge Check out our sister podcast: Building Biotechs Send Carina a connection request on LinkedIn! Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website 📱 Facebook 📷 Instagram 💼 LinkedIn 00:00 Build your own AI job search engine 01:08 What you need, the Claude plans 02:22 Starting a Claude project 03:38 Adding Alex's resume and job as context 05:45 Giving instructions for the job search engine 09:02 Watching the threads work 10:55 When a thread needs you 12:07 Networking formulas and the LinkedIn tracker 14:21 Using my existing LinkedIn automation 15:25 A morning leads artifact instead of Notion 17:17 Editing the tailored resume and cover letter in a Claude doc 18:44 You must check every bullet for accuracy 21:34 Formatting the PDF and Word versions 22:53 Alex's Morning Leads dashboard 24:31 Approving a job, the dry run 28:10 LinkedIn networking, never auto-send 29:20 How long it took 31:42 How to show you're AI literate in interviews 33:05 Turn off model training in Claude