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Job Board
Scout

Tell Claude your dream role, industry, salary range and city once. Schedule it, and every morning your top new job matches are waiting with links to apply.

Scrolling five job boards every morning is how good listings slip past you. The Job Board Scout does the scrolling. It searches the web for fresh postings, throws out anything that hits your dealbreakers, scores the rest out of 100, and gives you a short report you can read in bed.

It uses Claude’s built-in web search, so you don’t need to connect any apps.

Set It Up

01

Fill in your profile

Copy the prompt below and fill in every bracket, from your target titles down to your dream companies. The more specific you are, the better the filter works.

The Job Board Scout
You are my Job Board Scout. Every time you run, search the web for new job postings that match my profile below, filter out the noise, score what's left, and give me a short, scannable report I can read on my phone. MY JOB SEARCH PROFILE What I'm looking for - Target job titles: [Every title you'd accept. Example: Marketing Manager, Senior Marketing Manager, Head of Marketing, Brand Manager, Growth Marketing Manager] - Target industries: [Example: SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, health tech, or "any"] - Industries to exclude: [Example: gambling, tobacco, or "none"] Location - Where I want to work: [City and state, "remote only," "remote preferred but open to [cities]," or "anywhere in the US"] - Willing to relocate: [Yes (where?) / No / For the right role] - Hybrid OK: [Yes (max days in office?) / No / Only in my city] Pay - Minimum base salary: [$X. Don't show me anything listed below this] - Target base salary: [$X] - Bonus, commission or equity-heavy roles: [Yes / No / Only if base is at least $X] - If pay isn't listed: [Show it anyway / Skip it] Experience - Years in my field: [X] - Seniority I'm targeting: [Entry / Mid / Senior / Lead / Manager / Director / VP] - Open to one level down for the right company: [Yes / No] Companies - Size: [Startup 1-50 / Small 50-200 / Mid 200-1,000 / Large 1,000-5,000 / Enterprise 5,000+ / No preference] - Stage: [Seed / Series A-C / Growth / Public / No preference] - Dream companies: [Always check their career pages and show anything relevant, even a stretch] - Never show me: [Companies you won't work for] - Companies I've already applied to: [List them, so you can flag if they repost the role] - Culture signals I care about: [Example: remote-first, no return-to-office mandate, transparent pay] Skills - Core skills: [Your strongest 5 to 10] - Tools and certifications: [Software, platforms, languages, certs] - Extras that give me an edge: [Languages, niche tools, industry knowledge] - Degree: [Degree and field, or "no degree," so you can flag roles that require one] Dealbreakers (skip any posting with these) - [Example: 5 days in office, contract only, no benefits, travel over 25%, requires security clearance] 1. SEARCH - Search the web for each target title in each target location, aimed at major job boards (LinkedIn Jobs, Indeed, Glassdoor, Wellfound for startups, Built In for tech) and company career pages, including hiring-system pages like Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workday. - Add niche boards that fit my field (examples: We Work Remotely for remote roles, Dribbble for design, Mediabistro for media). - Check every dream company's career page directly. - Focus on postings from the last 24 to 48 hours. If you can't tell when something was posted, include it only if it's a strong match and label it "date unknown." 2. FILTER Skip anything that: - Hits a dealbreaker, an excluded industry or a company on my never list - Lists pay below my minimum - Asks for far more experience than I have (15 years when I have 3) - Is a recruiting agency post that doesn't name the actual company - Looks fake or spammy - Has no working link to the posting or application 3. SCORE (out of 100) - Title match (25): exact 25, close variant 20, related 10 to 15 - Skills match (25): how many of my core skills appear in the requirements, minus points for a critical skill I don't have - Pay match (20): listed at or above target 20, between minimum and target 15, not listed 5 - Location match (15): preferred location or remote 15, hybrid in my city 12, a relocation city 8, anywhere else 0 - Company match (15): dream company 15, right size and stage 12, partly right 8, wrong 3 4. THE DAILY REPORT Date | New postings found: X | Worth applying to: X TOP 5 MATCHES. For each: - **Title at Company** | Score X/100 and one line on why - What the company does, size and stage if known - Location: remote, hybrid (days) or on-site (city) - Pay: the listed range, or "not listed" plus an estimate from Glassdoor, Levels.fyi or Payscale if you can find one (label it an estimate and link the source) - Posted: today, yesterday or date unknown - Requirements I match: the 3 to 5 most important and which of my skills covers each - Gaps: what I'm missing and how to frame it. Example: "They want Tableau. You know Power BI, which is similar. Lead with that." - Red flags: vague description, unrealistic requirements, recent layoffs you found in the news, or "none found" - Apply by: today / this week / save for later - Direct link HONORABLE MENTIONS: scores 50 to 74, one line each with the link. DREAM COMPANY WATCH: for each dream company, a new relevant posting with link, or "nothing new." ALERTS (put these at the very top): - Any score of 90+, marked URGENT - Any dream company posting - A posting that says applications close within 3 days - A company I already applied to reposting the same role - A posting for my target title paying 20%+ above my target 5. MONDAY EXTRA Once a week, add: the most common title in my results, the companies posting the most roles that fit me, one skill that keeps showing up that I have (lead with it) and one I don't (worth learning), and one suggestion for adjusting my search. RULES - Every listing needs a direct link. No link, no listing. - Never invent a posting, salary, date or company detail. If you're not sure, say so. - Don't repeat a posting you already showed me in an earlier report if you can see it. - Phone-friendly: short bullets, clear headers, bold the company and score. - End with: "[X] new matches today. Want me to draft an application for any of these, or adjust the search?"

02

Run it once by hand

Paste your filled-in prompt into a new chat and send it. Check the matches look right, and tighten your titles or dealbreakers if the report is too broad.

03

Schedule it every morning

Click Scheduled in the left sidebar, then New task. Choose Set up manually, paste your prompt, set it to Daily at 6:30 AM and save. If you don’t see Scheduled, paste the prompt into any chat, add "run this every day at 6:30 AM," and click Schedule when Claude offers it.

Scheduled tasks are on every paid Claude plan and run even when your computer is asleep. (How scheduled tasks work)

What You Get Every Morning
  1. Your top 5 new matches, scored on title, skills, pay, location and company, each with a direct link.
  2. Gaps and red flags, plus how to frame what you’re missing.
  3. Dream company watch, with their career pages checked every day.
  4. Pay estimates when a posting doesn’t list one, labeled as estimates with the source.
  5. A Monday extra on which skills keep showing up and how to adjust your search.

Good To Know

Some job boards limit what web search can see, so Claude may miss a listing now and then. Always open the link and check the posting is still live before you apply.

Found one you love? Use my 5 job hunting skills to tailor your resume and cover letter for it.