career-skills

A collection of Claude Code skills for job-search and career content — drafting and auditing resumes/CVs, grounded in primary-source research from peer-reviewed hiring studies, top university career services guides, and I-O psychology selection science.

Skills in this repo

resume-writer/

Draft and audit resumes and CVs using primary-source research. Handles:

• Drafting workflow — six-phase process from target-job analysis (Yate TJD) through section-by-section drafting
• Audit checklist — six-pass audit (ATS/parseability, content, target alignment, discrimination risk, length, tone) producing a prioritized fix list and pass/fail grid
• Research reference — citation-ready findings from Schmidt-Hunter & Sackett 2022 validity coefficients, Bertrand-Mullainathan and Quillian audit studies, NACE employer data, Fuller/Cappelli ATS research, and university guides from Harvard, MIT, Wharton, Princeton, Yale, and Oxford
• Myth rating — common resume-advice claims rated against primary research

Built to be honest about what the evidence actually shows: most "confident" resume tips are craft conventions, not peer-reviewed findings. The skill is explicit about which is which.

See resume-writer/SKILL.md for the full skill entry point.

Installing

One command, via the skills.sh registry:

npx skills add basseko/career-skills

That's it. This installs every skill in this repo into your Claude Code skills directory. Verify with /skills in Claude Code or start a new session — the skill will be auto-discovered.

Manual install (for hacking on the skill locally)

If you want to edit the skill and have your changes picked up live, clone the repo and symlink instead:

git clone https://github.com/basseko/career-skills.git ~/Development/career-skills
ln -s ~/Development/career-skills/resume-writer ~/.claude/skills/resume-writer

Edits to the cloned repo will be reflected in Claude Code on the next session.

Using

Once installed, the skill becomes available automatically when you work on resume-related tasks. Common triggers:

• "Review / audit / critique this resume" → runs the audit workflow
• "Help me write a resume from scratch" → runs the drafting workflow
• "Should I include X on my resume?" → routes to the relevant topic file
• "What does the research say about [resume topic]?" → pulls citation-ready findings

Adding a new skill

Skills in this repo follow the Claude Code skills format. To add a new one:

1. Create a new directory at the repo root (e.g., interview-prep/)
2. Add a SKILL.md with frontmatter (name, description) and the skill's entry content
3. Add supporting topic files as needed
4. Update this README with a new section under "Skills in this repo"
5. Symlink the new directory into ~/.claude/skills/ to activate it locally

Philosophy

The career-advice space is dominated by craft wisdom sold as research. This repo's skills are built to separate three things explicitly:

1. Peer-reviewed primary research — actual studies with methodologies, citations, and contested findings flagged
2. Craft conventions — widely-taught rules from authoritative sources like top university career services, documented as conventions without overclaiming experimental backing
3. Unsupported claims — common advice that traces back to marketing or coaching blogs with no primary source, flagged as non-citable

When the skills tell you to do something, they tell you why and which category the reasoning falls into.

License

MIT. Use freely.