After a layoff the temptation is to apply everywhere and tell every posting what it wants to hear. Career Compass does the opposite: paste a posting and your résumé, and it tells you whether the role is a strong fit, a stretch or a long shot, which of your achievements answer each requirement, and what an interviewer will probe. It won't explain the layoff for you or invent a reason you left; it asks, once, how you want to tell that part, and keeps your answer.
You
[pastes a Staff Backend Engineer, Payments Platform posting] Do I fit this?
Claude
Stretchstrong on payments and Go, but Kubernetes isn't on your résumé.
Must-haves, with your evidence
8+ years of backend systems✓9 years building backend services in Go and Java.
Payments and idempotency✓Designed the payments idempotency layer that cut duplicate charges from about 300 a month to under 5.
Leading cross-team initiatives✓Partly: led the checkout rewrite from a Java monolith to Go (p99 from 1.8s to 240ms) and mentored 3 engineers.
Top two gaps
Kubernetes in production. It isn't on your résumé. If you ran services on it, say where; if not, say so and point to the AWS and Terraform work.
Staff-level scope. The rewrite shows technical leadership on one team. Name any work that spanned teams, or expect to be asked.
Example on sample data Marcus Webb, a fictional senior backend engineer from the test set · the posting is made up · shortened
Get it in the Claude directory
Two clicks, no setup
In the Claude app or on claude.ai, open Customize → Plugins.
Search for Career Compass and add it.
Paste a job posting and your résumé, and ask Do I fit this?
claude.ai chat · web, desktop, mobileSkills only. Claude works from what you paste. A Career Compass card you keep carries your search into the next chat.
Cowork and Claude CodeAlso keeps your history and applications as plain text on your own computer. Needs Node.js 22 or newer.