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career-ops

by santifer · santifer/career-ops

14-mode job search system — resume tuning, JD matching, cover letters, batch application PDFs, Go dashboard.

career-ops packages the whole job-hunt flow as Claude Code skills: resume tuning against each JD, cover letter drafting in your voice, batch PDF generation, application tracking via a small Go dashboard. Built for volume — people who are applying to 50+ roles.

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Why use it

Key features

Live Demo

What it looks like in practice

ready

Install

Author repository · Claude Skills documentation

Use Cases

Real-world ways to use career-ops

Apply to 30 roles with tuned resumes and cover letters in an afternoon

👤 Job seekers, especially mid-career switching roles ⏱ ~180 min intermediate

When to use: You've saved 30 JDs and each wants a slightly different resume angle.

Flow
  1. Ingest JDs
    Use career-ops. Load JDs from /career/jds/. For each, score my resume match + identify the 3 highest-leverage tweaks.✓ Copied
    → Scorecard per JD with concrete tweak suggestions
  2. Tune + cover letter
    For each JD: produce a tuned resume + cover letter. Save to /career/applications/<company>/✓ Copied
    → Per-company folder with both docs
  3. Render PDFs
    Render every .md to PDF. Verify page count <= 2 for resumes.✓ Copied
    → PDFs generated; page counts reported

Outcome: A stack of tuned application packets, ready to submit in batch.

Pitfalls
  • Over-tuning — resumes look inconsistent across applications — The skill preserves your narrative spine; review a few manually
Combine with: filesystem

Run the Go dashboard to track applications

👤 Job seekers needing kanban-style visibility ⏱ ~15 min beginner

When to use: You've applied to 30+ places and lost track of who's at what stage.

Prerequisites
  • Go installed — brew install go or grab from go.dev
Flow
  1. Start dashboard
    Use career-ops to start the dashboard on localhost:7070.✓ Copied
    → Dashboard visible with current apps
  2. Update status
    Move "Acme Co" to "interview-scheduled" for April 30 10am.✓ Copied
    → Card updated on board
  3. Weekly review
    What's stale (no action in 14 days)? What's my response rate?✓ Copied
    → Stats + stale-item list

Outcome: A working pipeline view, not a mental juggle.

Pitfalls
  • Dashboard DB isn't backed up — Add the DB path to your dotfiles sync or back it up manually

Combinations

Pair with other MCPs for X10 leverage

career-ops-skill + filesystem

Organize per-company folders

Save all applications under /career/applications/<slug>/ with a standard structure.✓ Copied
career-ops-skill + humanizer-skill

Make cover letters not sound AI

Run humanizer on the cover letter before rendering PDF.✓ Copied

Tools

What this MCP exposes

ToolInputsWhen to callCost
score_jd_match resume, jd Per-JD triage 0
tune_resume base, jd, tweaks Once you commit to applying 0
draft_cover_letter resume, jd, voice_samples Always after resume 0
render_pdf md_path Final output stage 0
dashboard_start port? Tracking mode 0

Cost & Limits

What this costs to run

API quota
N/A
Tokens per call
High in batch mode — expect significant token use per batch
Monetary
Free (MIT)
Tip
Batch 5 at a time, not 30 — you'll catch voice drift and recalibrate

Security

Permissions, secrets, blast radius

Minimum scopes: filesystem-read filesystem-write
Credential storage: Dashboard DB local
Data egress: None

Troubleshooting

Common errors and fixes

PDF rendering fails

LaTeX or Typst must be installed. Skill tells you which path it uses — install accordingly.

Dashboard port in use

Pass --port 7171

Verify: `lsof -i :7070`
Cover letters all sound identical

Per-company personalization is on by default; increase the per-JD research step depth

Alternatives

career-ops vs others

AlternativeWhen to use it insteadTradeoff
Huntr / TealYou want a polished SaaS job trackerNot LLM-integrated; manual data entry
A plain spreadsheet + Word templateYou're only applying to a few rolesNo automation on the tuning side

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