Prompts for Claude
Claude, from Anthropic, holds a long pasted document steadily, so the highest-value move is to put the whole posting and your whole resume into a single message rather than feeding them in across turns. It also follows explicit constraints closely — tell it to ask you questions before drafting, or to flag anything it cannot source, and it will. The usual caution still applies: hand it a thin bullet and no facts, and it will write a plausible one. The output is text in a chat window, so turning it into a resume a person can read is still your job.
Every prompt here works in Claude from Anthropic, and in the other three. Nothing in this library depends on a feature only one of them has — what changes the output is the material you paste in, not the badge on the tab.
You have owned a service for a year and your resume says "maintained backend services". The scale, the on-call load and the blast radius are all in your head, and none of it is on the page
I am a software engineer and I own a service that my resume describes in 1 flat line. Interview me until the scope of it is on paper.
The posting names more technologies than you have shipped with. You need to know which ones you can back with real work, which to foreground, and which gaps to answer honestly rather than paper over
I am a software engineer applying for the role below. Line up what I have already built against what this team is asking for.
Retention went up while you were on the team, and you cannot honestly claim you caused all of it. You want a bullet that states a real number and a share of it you can defend when someone pushes
I am a product manager and I want 1 bullet about the work below that states a number I can defend in an interview.
You know the work mattered, but the only figures you can name are row counts and dashboard views — and those measure effort, not outcome
You are helping a data analyst find the measurable part of their work.
A hiring manager opens your portfolio first and your resume second. By the time they reach the summary it has to say something the screenshots did not — and "passionate about user-centered design" does not
You are writing the summary block at the top of a UX designer's resume. It gets read after the portfolio, so it must not describe visual work. It has to answer 3 things: what kind of design problem this person handles, at what scope, and on what evidence.
Plenty of designers have a clean portfolio. The resume's real job is to carry what a portfolio structurally cannot: how you work with engineers, what you did when research contradicted the plan, and what happened after launch
You are auditing a UX designer's resume for the things a portfolio cannot demonstrate. A portfolio shows artifacts well and behavior poorly, so the resume is where behavior has to live. Find what is missing and tell me where the evidence would come from.
You are staring at an empty page and want the AI to pull the material out of you before it drafts anything
You are helping me build the first draft of my resume. Do not write any resume content yet.
Your resume is finished and the block at the top of the page is still blank
You are helping me write the summary block at the top of my resume. My full resume is below.
Your bullets read like the job description you were handed rather than what changed because you were there
You are helping me rewrite resume bullets for one role.
When your bullets describe real work but read flat and you cannot tell which lines are missing a number
Here are resume bullets I wrote about work I actually did:
You have a finished draft and want to know what a hiring manager would object to before you send it
Act as the hiring manager filling this role. You screen resumes for [SENIORITY LEVEL] [ROLE] positions at [COMPANY TYPE]. My resume is below, followed by the posting.
You have a gap of 6 months or more and want one factual line for it instead of an unexplained jump in dates
You are helping me write a single resume entry for a gap in my work history. The dates are [START MONTH YEAR] to [END MONTH YEAR]. Here is everything I actually did during that time, in my own words: [PASTE YOUR NOTES].
Before you decide whether a posting is worth applying to, or what your cover letter has to account for
You are reviewing my resume against one job posting. Do not rewrite anything yet.
You have found a posting worth applying to and want to know what it actually asks for before you open your resume
You are a hiring analyst. Below is a job posting I am applying to.
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