Shiviansh

Job Market Recon — Development skill for Claude Code

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Survey what a job market actually pays before applying to it.

How to install Job Market Recon

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open Shiviansh/job-market-recon and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Job Market Recon does

Survey what a job market actually pays before applying to it. A Claude skill plus a stipend survey of nine Indian job boards — 89% of advertised embedded internships are unpaid.

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README

Job Market Recon

A Claude skill that surveys **what a job market actually pays** before it looks for jobs in it, then runs repeatable multi-site sweeps that verify every listing is live.

Built and tested on Indian tech internships. The site configs are India-specific; the method is not.

Why this exists

Most job tools go straight to matching. That skips the question worth asking first.

Running a stipend survey across nine Indian job boards in August 2026 produced this:

Category	Total listings	Unpaid	Clearing ₹25,000/month
Embedded systems internships	120	107 (89%)	2
Robotics internships	105	82 (78%)	0
VLSI internships	13	12 (92%)	0
Machine learning internships	644	—	~20% of a 50-listing sample

A student setting a ₹25,000 floor for AI roles filters out the bottom fifth of their market. The same student setting the same floor for VLSI eliminates *all* of it. Those need completely different strategies, and no job board will tell you which situation you are in.

**Full findings: [docs/MARKET-REPORT-INDIA-2026.md](docs/MARKET-REPORT-INDIA-2026.md)** **See what a run produces: [docs/EXAMPLE-OUTPUT.md](docs/EXAMPLE-OUTPUT.md)**

Requirements — read before setting up

**You need Claude with the ability to browse the web.** This works in:

Claude Code (CLI)
Claude Cowork (desktop app)
Any Claude setup with a browser or web-fetch tool available

**It will not work by pasting `SKILL.md` into a normal claude.ai chat.** The skill opens job boards, reads stipend filters and verifies links. Without browser access it has nothing to work with.

Also worth knowing before you start:

Setup takes about 15 minutes — mostly filling in your profile honestly.
A full nine-site sweep takes a while and is not cheap in tokens. Every listing gets opened and verified, which is the point, but it isn't instant.
It drafts; it does not apply. No forms submitted, no emails