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Analyzing your own job applications with AI until you get hired
A young woman used Claude to treat her job search as a data funnel and landed a role at DoorDash.
- Profession
- Job Seeker, Data Analyst
- Tools
- Claude
- Source
- exame.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Report date
- October 8, 2026
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
Compared resumes against job postings, created versions by field and analyzed the interviews.
How it went
186 applications, 44 direct contacts, 19 interviews, 6 tests and 1 offer.
Good to know
Anonymize recruiter and company names when pasting emails into the AI.
The prompt
This is my application spreadsheet [columns: role, field, resume version, response, stage]. Find patterns: which versions and fields advance the most, where I get stuck, and 3 changes for my next 20 applications.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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