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Claude Co-Work
For Business Professionals.
Get Claude Working on Your Job Search — Free.

Stop re-explaining your background every time you open an AI tab.

Build a professional AI setup that knows your background, tailors your resume to any job description, and writes follow-up emails you'd actually send — in a single afternoon. No coding. No installs. Just a free Anthropic account.

Tailored resume in under 10 minutes 4 modules · 12 lessons No coding required Complete in an afternoon
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Why Generic AI Output Keeps Happening

Most people use AI for their job search the same wrong way.

"Open a tab, explain your situation from scratch, copy the output, start over tomorrow." That produces generic resumes and generic cover letters — exactly what a hiring manager has already seen 200 times today.

The Browser Tab Problem

ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Gemini — they all work the same way. You explain your background. You get output. You close the tab. Tomorrow you start over.

  • →Generic output because it doesn't know your background
  • →3 hours per application when it should take 10 minutes
  • →Cover letters that sound like every other cover letter
Claude Co-Work Is Different

Claude Co-Work lives inside a folder on your computer. It reads your actual resume, your accomplishments notes, your career stories. It already knows your background — because you built a file that told it everything once.

  • →Tailored resumes that mirror the exact JD language
  • →Cover letters built from your real accomplishments and metrics
  • →10 minutes per application — not 3 hours
What You'll Build

By the end of this free course, you have a complete professional AI system.

Not better prompts. A permanent setup — Claude knows your background, draws from your real career history, and produces specific output every session without you re-explaining anything.

A Career Briefing Claude Reads Every Session
Your Project Instructions — professional identity, target role, communication rules, hard constraints — written once. Claude reads them before every conversation. You never re-explain your background again.
A Tailored Resume Workflow
Your career history — extracted from your resume, enriched through a guided interview — becomes the source Claude draws from. Paste any job description and get a tailored resume in under 10 minutes, every application.
A Live Job Search System
Cold emails to hiring managers, 3-email follow-up sequences, Airtable connected so nothing falls through — and Exa searching for matching roles and writing them directly into your tracker.
Who This Is For

For professionals who are ready to stop explaining their background from scratch.

Actively job searching — and staring at blank cover lettersEvery application takes hours because you're starting from zero every time. This ends that.
Getting generic AI output because it doesn't know youBrowser AI produces generic copy because it has no context. Claude Co-Work has your context permanently.
Sending the same resume everywhere, wondering why callbacks are lowTailored resumes get 53% more callbacks. This course is how you execute that at scale.
Not a developer — and not interested in becoming oneThis is for the person who's spent their career doing the job. No coding. No technical background needed.
What's Inside — Course Curriculum

4 Modules · 12 Lessons · 3 Bonus Lessons

Each lesson is about 3–5 minutes. Complete it in one afternoon. You generate real output before Module 2 ends.

Module 1 — 3 Lessons
Getting Started
Set up your Claude Project, connect it to your local folder, and write the career briefing Claude reads before every session. No installs, no coding — just Claude Desktop and a free account.
Start With What You Have
Project Instructions — Your Career Briefing, Written Once
Building Out the Folder as You Go
Delivers: Claude Project set up and your career briefing active
Module 2 — 3 Lessons
Your Career Context
Claude extracts your full career history from your resume automatically, then interviews you to fill the gaps. The result is a rich, metric-driven career history file Claude draws from in every output.
Upload Your Resume → Claude Builds the Rest
The Interview — Getting What Your Resume Doesn't Say
Your First Real Output — Professional Summary in 90 Seconds
Delivers: Career history built + first real output generated
Module 3 — 3 Lessons
Resume Workflows
Build a master resume — the living asset you pull from for every application. Paste a job description and get a tailored, ATS-optimized resume with exact JD language mirrored in under 10 minutes.
Your Master Resume — The Living Asset
Tailoring to a Job Description in 10 Minutes
The Complete Application Package
Delivers: Master resume + complete tailored application workflow
Module 4 — 3 Lessons
Communication + System
Cold email the hiring manager, run a 3-email follow-up sequence saved to your applications, connect Airtable live, and use Exa to find matching roles and write them directly into your tracker.
Cold Emailing Hiring Managers
Follow-Up Sequence + Airtable
Job Discovery with Exa
Delivers: Full communication workflow + live job search tracker
Bonus Lessons — Included Free
The Efficiency Layer
Three lessons that make every session faster and produce usable output on the first pass — not the fourth revision.
Bonus 1: Making Claude More Efficient
The three habits that produce usable output on the first pass — without the correction loop.
Bonus 2: Project Instructions That Never Need Editing
Structure your career briefing so it gets more consistent over time, not less — and grows your Do Not rules from your own corrections.
Bonus 3: Compact Instructions — Keeping Long Conversations Clean
Tell Claude what to preserve and what to drop when a long session gets compressed — written once, applies to every conversation.
Delivers: Sessions that stay focused and produce clean output, even after 30+ messages
Free Resources — Included

Everything You Need to Start.
Pre-Built. Drop In and Go.

The course teaches you how these work. The resources mean you don't start from a blank page — they're ready to fill in and use.

Resource #1
Project Instructions Starter Template
A pre-written career briefing template with every section already structured. Takes 15 minutes to fill in with your real information. Drop it into your Project Instructions and Claude knows who you are before the first conversation starts.
Professional Identity — title, domain, core expertise
Target Role — role type, company profile, seniority, geography, dealbreakers
Communication Style — tone, sentence rules, phrases Claude should never use
What Makes You Different — 2–3 real differentiators Claude weaves in where relevant
Resource #2
Career History Starter
A structured template for capturing your career history — accomplishments, metrics, project context, and career notes — organized the way Claude reads it best. The richer this file gets, the more specific every resume and cover letter becomes.
One section per employer — accomplishments in raw bullet format, metrics included
Significant projects — scope, outcomes, and what you led or built
Career notes — performance review phrases, interview stories that landed, context Claude should carry forward
Resource #3
Job Search Setup Guide
A step-by-step setup walkthrough that takes you from a blank folder to a fully connected Claude Project — with your career briefing active, your career history uploaded, and your first output generated. Follow it once and the system runs itself.
Project setup — how to organize your working folder and connect it to Claude
Application workflow — one folder per company, consistent naming, everything downloadable
Airtable setup guide — the exact fields and tables from Lesson 11, pre-configured
Free — No Credit Card Required

Build Your AI Job Search System This Afternoon.

4 modules. 16 lessons. 3 free resources. One afternoon. Everything you need to stop starting from scratch.

Core Course — 4 modules, 12 lessons Included
3 Bonus Efficiency Lessons Included
Project Instructions Starter Template Included
Career History Starter Included
Job Search Setup Guide Included
Your Price
Free
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Why It's Free
"The career CLAUDE.md, the memory bank, the folder structure — these are the assets that make everything else work."

None of the paid courses matter if this foundation isn't right. We want you to build these correctly, for free, before you decide whether you want to go further. The paid courses are for people who finished this one and thought: I want more of this.

Graham Hardy
Your Instructor
Graham Hardy
Founder, Averware  ·  Connected Products Executive  ·  25+ Years in Tech

I spent 25+ years as an engineering executive — 50 million devices, teams across three continents, a $1.4B acquisition. I've been on both sides of this: the person sending the application and the executive reading 200 resumes. The candidates who stood out weren't the most qualified. They were the most specific. This course builds the system that produces specific output — from your real background, your real accomplishments, your real voice.

Common Questions

Questions? Answered.

I've tried AI before and the output was generic. Is this different?
Yes. Generic AI output happens because you have to re-explain your background every session. This course builds a Claude Project that stores your career briefing, your full career history, and your communication rules permanently. Claude reads all of it before every conversation starts — so every output draws from your real background, not a prompt you typed five minutes ago.
Do I need to install anything or know how to code?
No coding, no terminal, no extensions. You need Claude Desktop (free download) and a free Anthropic account. That's it. Every lesson assumes zero technical background.
How long does it take to complete?
One afternoon. 12 lessons at 3–5 minutes each. You generate real output — a professional summary from your actual career — before Module 2 ends.
Is this only useful if I'm actively job searching?
No. The system you build — a career briefing, a rich career history, an organized project — is valuable for any professional. Preparing for a promotion conversation, refreshing your LinkedIn, updating your bio, preparing for a board presentation. The job search context is just the clearest way to show what this level of specificity produces.
What do the paid courses cover?
Two paths after this. Claude Co-Work for Service Businesses covers proposals, change orders, closeout packages, and MCP connectors to Gmail, Google Drive, and your CRM. Claude Co-Work for Operators covers API integrations, Airtable as a business database, automation workflows, and weekly AI-generated team briefings. Both are built on the same foundation you set up here.
Why is this free?
The Project Instructions, the career history file, the project structure — these are the assets that make everything else produce specific output instead of generic AI text. We want you to build these correctly, for free, before you decide whether you want to go further. The paid courses are for people who finished this one and thought: I want more of this.

Free — No Credit Card Required

Build Your AI Job Search System
This Afternoon.

4 modules · 12 lessons · 3 bonus lessons · No coding · No credit card

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