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title: "Job search brief"
description: "Your job search brief is a short daily rundown in Claude. Today's new jobs are ranked against your experience, with companies worth reaching out to and anything that needs you."
canonical_url: https://careermax.ai/docs/job-search-brief
last_updated: 2026-10-20
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# Job search brief

> For AI agents: this is the Markdown version of https://careermax.ai/docs/job-search-brief. The index of every CareerMax docs page is at https://careermax.ai/llms.txt.

Your job search brief is a short daily rundown in Claude. Today's new jobs are ranked against your experience, with companies worth reaching out to and anything that needs you.

New to CareerMax? [Add to Claude](https://careermax.ai/claude), then follow the [setup guide](https://careermax.ai/docs/set-up-claude.md).

## Run it

Start a chat and say:

> Run my CareerMax job search brief

"What's new in my job search?" and "Show me today's jobs" work too. To get it every weekday morning without asking, [schedule it](https://careermax.ai/docs/set-up-claude#schedule). That needs a paid Claude plan.

## What's in it

### Today's jobs, ranked for you

Claude scores each new job against your résumé and preferences. It weighs:

- role and level against what you've done
- your skills and experience against the job's must-haves
- location, work model, pay and visa sponsorship
- company signals, such as stage and how recent the posting is

Each job gets a one-line reason tied to your real experience, such as "Your payments ledger work maps to their billing team." Real gaps are named. A job that can't sponsor your visa, or sits two levels away from yours, is flagged and ranked lower.

Tick the jobs you want in the job picker and tap **Apply**. If your Claude app can't show the picker, Claude lists the jobs and you reply with the numbers you want. Then see [Applications](https://careermax.ai/docs/applications).

### Companies worth reaching out to

If you turned on daily outreach, the brief adds 3 new companies a day. Each one:

- is hiring or growing, with a recent signal and a source, such as a funding round, open roles in your function or a new office near you
- matches your locations and industry
- has never been suggested to you before

For each company, CareerMax finds up to 10 people, and Claude shows the most relevant ones first: hiring managers and team leads in your function, then recruiters. It costs 1 credit per company, and nothing when nobody is found. Claude then offers to draft a short note to one of them. See [Referrals and outreach](https://careermax.ai/docs/referrals-and-outreach).

To turn daily outreach on or off, tell Claude:

> Turn off daily outreach

### What needs you

The brief ends with anything waiting on you: applications that need an answer or your review, and new emails from employers. Claude summarizes each in a line and offers to draft replies.

## How new jobs arrive

- CareerMax looks for new jobs once a day. If you run the brief again the same day, you see the same jobs, and outreach isn't charged twice.
- Jobs come from employer career sites that use Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle Recruiting Cloud, UKG Pro, ADP Workforce Now and Taleo, so CareerMax can fill the applications for you.
- A free CareerMax account gets one first set of matches. New jobs every day come with a paid CareerMax plan. See [Credits](https://careermax.ai/docs/credits).

## Change what you see

Tell Claude in your own words. For example:

> Only show me remote roles

> Add product manager roles in Austin

Claude updates your job preferences and the next search uses them. You can also say "save that one for later" or "not interested in that company", or paste a link to a job on a supported board to apply to it.