How I Use Claude to Automate My Job Search

How I Use Claude to Run My Job Search I’ve been job hunting for a little while now. Anyone who’s done it recently knows it’s a part-time job on its own — tracking alerts from five different sources, figuring out which roles you’ve already applied for, etc. I got tired of spending time and effort doing that manually. So I built a Claude workflow to do most of it for me. The problem it solves Job alerts pile up fast. LinkedIn sends a digest. Recruiters email you directly. Greenhouse and Lever fire off notifications. Job boards send their own alerts. By the time I sat down each week to review everything, I’d have 40+ emails across multiple threads, half of which were duplicates or companies I’d already contacted. I was also maintaining a tracker doc in Google Drive — companies I’d applied for. Keeping that in sync manually was its own problem. I’d apply for a job and forget to update the doc. Then I’d get another alert for the same role two weeks later and waste ten minutes figuring out…