Skills

cv-job-market-research: Turn Your CV into a Verifiable Target-Company Excel Research File

Best for turning your CV into a bilingual Excel target-company research file backed by tiered web research, fit scoring, and salary estimation; before using it, you must accept that it requires a Claude environment with file creation and web search enabled, and that salary figures are estimates, not quotes.

Official source · cv-job-market-research

Install

git clone https://github.com/omar-abo-el-maaty/cv-job-market-research

Who It's For

  • Anyone actively job hunting who has a CV (or can clearly describe their target role) and wants to systematically research which companies are worth applying to. The skill performs tiered web research based on your background, fit scoring, and salary estimation, ultimately producing a structured, verification-annotated bilingual Excel research file.
  • Prerequisite: your Claude environment (Claude.ai, Claude Code, or an equivalent API) must have file creation and web search capabilities enabled. The repository explicitly states that no additional external accounts or API keys are required.
  • Not suitable for: situations where you need officially guaranteed salary figures you can cite directly — the official documentation clearly states that salary figures are estimates, not quotes, and not every company's details have been independently verified. The evidence does not specify which CV languages or formats the Skill supports; this is unknown.

Your First Attempt in 3 Minutes

  1. Prerequisite: a Claude environment with file creation and web search enabled. The official documentation does not state minimum subscription or permission requirements for each environment; defer to the official documentation on this point.

  2. Installation: download the cv-job-market-research.skill package file (or clone the repository), then add it to your skills directory. The official installation locations are platform-specific: on Claude.ai, upload via Settings → Skills; on Claude Code, place the extracted folder in ~/.claude/skills/ (personal-level) or .claude/skills/ (project-level). The official install command you can copy is:

    git clone https://github.com/omar-abo-el-maaty/cv-job-market-research

    After cloning, place the contents into the skills directory corresponding to your platform above.

  3. Trigger the task: upload your CV (or simply describe your target role) and ask Claude to research target companies for you. The official documentation states the skill activates automatically when the content is relevant.

  4. For your first task, start with a low-risk goal: have it research companies for just one industry or one role direction, and observe whether it delivers tiered research, fit scoring, and salary estimation, ultimately producing an Excel workbook. The success signal is that the bilingual Excel file is generated and can be opened for viewing.

  5. Note the side effects: this workflow initiates web searches, which are read operations; generating the Excel file creates a new file. The official documentation does not state whether it executes commands in your file system or modifies existing files — this is unknown, so do not assume zero risk based on this.

Use Cases

Case 1: Targeted research on companies in a specific industry. Upload your CV to Claude and say, "Based on my resume, research companies in [industry] worth applying to." The skill activates automatically, performs tiered web research, scores fit against your background, and estimates salaries for target companies. The expected result is a bilingual Excel research file containing these fields; note that the salary column contains estimates, and company details are not guaranteed to be independently verified.

Case 2: Getting started without a CV. If you'd rather not upload a file for now, you can directly describe your target role (e.g., "I'm looking for data engineer positions, targeting [region]") — the official documentation states this is an equivalent trigger. The skill follows the same research workflow and likewise produces an Excel workbook. What you can confirm at this point: the task triggers automatically and generates a file; as for the specific criteria for how deeply companies are verified in the results, the evidence provides no actionable details, so do not assume every piece of information has been verified.

Usage Boundaries

  • Network access: relies on the Claude environment's web search capability; the official documentation does not state whether environments without it are supported.
  • Files and commands: the officially described behavior is reading the CV, conducting web research, and creating an Excel file. Whether it executes local commands or modifies existing files is not stated officially and remains unknown.
  • Side effects and confirmation points: generating the Excel file is a new-file action; before research begins, you only need to provide a CV or role description. The official documentation does not mention any step-by-step confirmation mechanism.
  • Runtime environments and clients: the official documentation lists Claude.ai (upload via Settings → Skills), Claude Code (~/.claude/skills/ or .claude/skills/), and APIs with equivalent tools. This indicates at least these environments work; it does not mean other environments are necessarily unsupported.
  • Explicit official limitations: salary figures are estimates, not quotes; not all company details have been independently verified.
  • Unconfirmed information: supported languages and CV format range, data update frequency, and the specific criteria of the verification methodology are not stated on the official page.

Do not treat it as a basis for applications or salary negotiations; treat it as a starting point for narrowing your research scope, and verify key figures separately.