Career Navigator
An AI-powered end-to-end job search companion built as a Claude Cowork plugin. Combines the functions of a recruiter, career coach, reverse recruiter, and market analyst into a single intelligent platform that learns what works for you over time.
What It Does
Career Navigator manages your entire job search in one place:
- Builds targeted resumes from a structured Library of your Experiences
- Scores and optimizes every resume for ATS systems
- Tracks every application with full stage history
- Ranks job opportunities against your skills and outcome history
- Provides candid, honest assessments — not false encouragement
The core differentiator: every application outcome feeds back into the system. Over time, it learns which experience units, resume variants, and communication styles actually work for you.
Installation
Install via Claude Desktop
- Download the zip: direct link
- In Claude Desktop: Browse plugins → Personal → Upload a plugin → select the ZIP
- Add the directory where your resumes, cover letters, applications, etc. are stored
- In a new chat with Career Navigator active, run
/career-navigator:launch to start your job search workspace (configuration wizard)
Note (Claude Code vs Desktop Cowork): Career Navigator is designed for Claude Desktop Cowork usage. We also maintain a Claude Code terminal compatibility test surface so marketplace install/load can be validated in CLI. If you see command-bridge entries in Claude Code, that is expected for testing and does not change the intended Desktop Cowork experience.
Plugin Marketplace
Career Navigator is now published through a GitHub-backed marketplace feed as part of Phase 1G — Marketplace publication. For non-technical users, installation remains one click from Browse plugins in Claude Desktop.
Quick Start
1. Add your job search folder to the chat
In CoWork, click the + button (or the folder icon) and add the local folder where your resumes and cover letters live. This gives Career Navigator file access for the session.
2. Launch
/career-navigator:launch
Reads everything in your job search folder — resumes, cover letters, past applications — and automatically builds your profile and ExperienceLibrary. Also configures JobSearch for live job search.
3. Drop documents in your folder
Career Navigator monitors your job search folder automatically. Add a resume or cover letter, and it's ingested at the next startup or midnight sync — no command needed.
4. Search for matching roles
/career-navigator:search-jobs
With the Indeed MCP connector connected (see Job Search & Storage Setup below): live search and ranked results. Without it: search-jobs explains how to Connect Indeed (browser OAuth) and can fall back to assisted manual search strings until the connector is available (/career-navigator:launch Step 3).
5. Tailor your first resume
/career-navigator:tailor-resume
Paste a job description. Career Navigator assembles the optimal resume from your ExperienceLibrary, scores it for ATS compatibility, and saves it to your artifact inventory.
Phase 1 skills
Career Navigator is skill-first: most workflows start from normal conversation (paste a job description, say you applied somewhere, ask for a market read). Slash commands exist where listed below.
How the pieces fit — six domains, roughly in lifecycle order:
Launch & rhythm → keep {user_dir} healthy and time-sensitive items visible
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Documents & ATS → ingest sources, tailor résumés/letters, score and fix ATS
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Discovery & pipeline → search roles, log applications, learn from outcomes
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Market & role strategy → demand, salary, adjacent roles, AI risk, training ROI
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Networking & presence → plan, map paths, events, outreach & LinkedIn content
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Insight & dashboard → full analyst report + pipeline visualization
1. Launch & session rhythm
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