Before I built any of this, looking for a job was long and laborious: researching job sites that each claimed to be better than the last, wading through fake and “featured” postings on LinkedIn, and getting almost no responses. And we’re all told to tailor the resume to every single posting, so one application could take a few hours.
What I built
Four Claude skills (a skill is a folder of instructions Claude loads when a task matches it) and one dashboard:
- The tracker. Sweeps employers in parallel, checks each posting is still open on the company’s own job board, and grades every role against a written fit rubric. The output is one HTML file, ranked by fit, then deadline, then pay, with applied checkboxes that remember.
- Resume. Tailors a resume to one posting from a master record and builds the PDF.
- Cover letter. Drafts from samples of my own writing, and refuses to build if it finds an em dash.
- Interview prep. Researches the company and builds a guide for the specific round.
Open the sample tracker: the real build script, run on ten invented postings for a fictional candidate.
Why it works for my brain
With ADHD, the hardest part is just starting. Running the tracker gave me a dashboard of real, summarized information with links, and that made it exciting enough to start. Recently posted jobs sat right in front of me, with how well I qualified, how much I cared about the job, and any gaps in my experience already written out, so I could just click the link instead of getting bogged down scrolling LinkedIn postings that might not even be hiring. (Half the jobs my tracker found never surfaced for me on LinkedIn at all, and I still don’t know why.)
The checkboxes gave me visible progress. It turned the whole thing into a game and took out the friction.
What happened
I used the tracker for about a week, August 26 to September 3, 2026. It found and graded 477 postings, and I applied to 95 of them in those nine days (114 for the whole search). As of October 2, across everything I applied to:
- 34 companies wrote back with a real person (30%)
- 7 applications turned into interviews
- 31 turned into rejections
- 1 turned into the job I took, from an application I sent on day one
For the nerds: in a mid-September count, applications with a tailored cover letter got a human response 26% of the time, against 14% without one. Climate and energy companies answered 57% of the time. Fintech answered 1 of 13. (Outcomes come from scanning my inbox, so “no response” means the inbox never heard back, not that nobody read it.)
Getting it
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