Claude Career Skills — Development skill for Claude Code

career-skills

A family of Claude skills for building career assets — CVs, interview stories, positioning, website copy, case studies, LinkedIn content — all sourced from one canonical career file instead of being written separately from scratch each time.

New here? Start with this

If you've never used this before, here's the fastest path in:

1. Install each skill. If you have the Claude Desktop app, just double-click each .skill file after downloading it — it opens directly in Claude and installs from there. If you're on browser-only claude.ai, go to Settings → Customize → Skills, click +, then + Create skill, and upload each .skill file instead. Either way, do this once per skill — career-foundation, star-story-builder, cv-builder — and toggle each one on.
2. (Optional, recommended) Create a Project — a normal Claude Project, separate from the skills upload above — called something like "Career Builder." Skills work in any conversation once uploaded, but a dedicated Project gives you one place to keep your career file and revisit past sessions, rather than hunting through unrelated chats.
3. Start a conversation and say: "Let's build my career file." You don't need to know which skill does what, or that there even are three of them — that first line is enough to kick off career-foundation, and everything downstream will prompt you toward the right skill when you're ready for a CV, interview stories, or anything else in the family.

That's it. Everything past this point is background on how it works and what each piece does — useful once you're in it, not required to start.

What's a STAR story, and why bother?

STAR stands for **Situation, Task, Action, Result** — a way of structuring a work story so it actually lands, whether you're telling it in an interview, writing a case study, or just explaining what you did on a project to someone who wasn't there.

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