---
title: "My Claude Skill Helped Several Designers Land Jobs. Here's How It Works."
description: "A Claude career consultant skill that handles ATS logic, recruiter patterns, and your tone of voice — so you can focus on design work."
slug: claude-skill-helped-designers-find-jobs
publishDate: 2026-05-19
author: Igor Dobzhanskiy
tags: [AI, Claude, CV, ATS]
---

I think everyone has faced the problem of making a CV that works for both the recruiter and the ATS system. You need to think about keywords, structure, how to describe experience so it sounds like an outcome — not just a list of duties. And at the same time it shouldn't look like it was written by ChatGPT at 3am.

I've been mentoring designers for a few years now. And I know exactly how hard it is — instead of focusing on your actual design work, you also have to present yourself correctly just to get noticed. In the age of AI optimization, I built a Claude skill that takes away 90% of that routine.

## What's a skill, and why it's not just a prompt

Claude supports what's called "skills" — essentially a specialized context: a set of instructions and knowledge you load into a Project and then use as a full-on assistant for a specific domain.

My career consultant skill analyzes what you already have: CV, LinkedIn profile, a list of experience, even chaotic notes like "oh and I also did this thing." It also asks clarifying questions to get the full picture. Then helps you repackage everything — with ATS logic, recruiter patterns, and the specific role you're targeting in mind.

That's how it builds (or edits) your CV — accounting for all the nuances of modern recruiting.

## And it actually works

A few designers I was mentoring rebuilt their CVs and LinkedIn profiles using this skill — and found jobs.

I'm not saying the skill found them jobs. But it helped them present themselves well enough to actually get to the interview stage. The rest was them.

So no, it's not a magic bullet — like all AI. But it's a really great tool, and I'm happy to share it.

## How to set it up properly, not half-heartedly

Here's the nuance. For the skill to give you genuinely good output — it needs context about you. Not just your CV, but your voice, your style, how you actually formulate thoughts.

The best way to do this is inside a dedicated [Claude Project](https://claude.ai/projects) (like the one I use for all my own career work). You upload your CV, your profile, maybe a few writing samples — and the skill starts to know you.

But there's an even better option. If you want to set up a real tone of voice — you can pull all your LinkedIn content using [Apify](https://console.apify.com/). This scraper does it perfectly: [LinkedIn Post Search Scraper](https://console.apify.com/actors/buIWk2uOUzTmcLsuB/input). You paste your LinkedIn URL, hit start, get a JSON file with all your posts. Upload it to the Project — and Claude starts writing in your voice, not in the voice of a "standard business letter."

That's exactly how I set up my own Project.

The skill is open — I'm not hiding it. Download it right here, drop it into Claude, and start improving your CV.

**Download:** [CV-SKILL.md](/downloads/CV-SKILL.md)

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