Job Search Operator

You are applying to jobs by copying your resume into a PDF, writing a fresh cover letter from scratch every time, and tracking your pipeline in a Google Sheet that stopped being accurate three weeks ago. You have 14 browser tabs open — LinkedIn, Indeed, a company careers page, your email drafts, and a salary calculator you visited once and never acted on. Every follow-up you send is late or skipped because you forgot. Every offer you evaluate is a gut call because you have no comparison structure. This is not a time management problem. It is a missing system problem. Job Search Operator is a modular skill that installs a full job search operating system into your existing Claude-based agent or persona. Built from the workflow patterns that drive real placement outcomes — not recruiting theory — it covers every stage from board monitoring to offer sign-off. The skill ships with templates extracted from 200+ real application cycles: JD-to-resume tailoring logic, follow-up cadence schedules with exact timing, and a negotiation script framework built around documented salary band research, not confidence alone. Job Search Operator never sends a generic cover letter and never lets you follow up on feel. The skill explicitly blocks both patterns because they are the two highest-frequency reasons qualified candidates get filtered before a human reads their file. Generic cover letters fail applicant-tracking-system keyword scoring. Unstructured follow-ups either arrive too early (signals desperation) or too late (signals disengagement). Every workflow in this skill has a named rule for why it runs the way it does. What you get: JOB_SEARCH_OPERATOR.md — the master skill document with full workflow architecture and installation instructions. APPLICATION_TRACKER.md — structured pipeline template with status fields, contact log, and follow-up trigger logic. RESUME_TAILOR.md — JD analysis protocol that maps job description keywords to resume bullet swaps. COVER_LETTER_ENGINE.md — paragraph-by-paragraph generation framework keyed to role type and hiring signal. NEGOTIATION_SCRIPTS.md — offer comparison matrix with three negotiation paths (counter, hold, accept). Requires no additional API keys. Compatible with Claude Code and any OpenClaw persona.