career-navigator

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.

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Installation

Install via Claude Desktop

1. Download the zip: direct link
2. In Claude Desktop: Browse plugins → Personal → Upload a plugin → select the ZIP
3. Add the directory where your resumes, cover letters, applications, etc. are stored
4. 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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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1. Launch & session rhythm