How to use the Entry-Level Resume Writer agent skill

What the entry-level-resume skill does

The skill helps people with limited work history write a resume from evidence they actually have: education, coursework, personal projects, placements, volunteering, and part-time or family-business work. It asks what you personally did, especially in group projects, and whether a project was coursework or independent. It then phrases those activities as evidence of readiness for the target role.

It will not invent jobs, grades, credentials or project results. If you ask for an inflated claim, it declines that part, offers the strongest truthful version, and explains what still needs confirming.

• Lists the qualification's exact name, institution and confirmed completion or expected date in Education.
• Describes coursework and personal projects accurately, explaining the artifact, method and your contribution.
• Lists skills you have practised; a course name alone does not establish proficiency with every tool on its syllabus.
• Keeps 'currently learning' separate from demonstrated ability.

Install the entry-level-resume skill

Download the ZIP for this skill from this page. Then install it using one of the two methods below.

Option 1, for Claude Code: unzip the download into ~/.claude/skills/ for personal use, or into a project's .claude/skills/ folder to share it with that project.

Option 2, in the Claude apps: open Settings, go to Capabilities, then Skills, and upload the ZIP.

• The skill package contains a single file: SKILL.md.
• The skill requires nothing to be listed in advance and needs no account to run.

Trigger the skill with natural requests

You do not need a special command. Describe your situation and what you need, and the agent will use the skill when the request matches its description: first-job, student, internship, apprenticeship or recent-graduate resumes.

Give the target role, your education or training status, and one or two relevant activities. The more specific you are about what you did, the more useful the draft will be.

• 'Help me write a resume for a summer internship in data analysis. I am a second-year student.'
• 'I am an apprentice electrician with no full-time jobs yet. Turn my apprenticeship and weekend work into a resume.'
• 'Build a graduate resume from my coursework and the Python timetable checker I wrote for a class.'

Work through the intake questions

Expect the agent to ask follow-up questions before it writes. These are meant to pin down facts, not to delay you. Typical questions cover what you personally contributed to a group project, whether a project was coursework or independent, what was completed, and what you can demonstrate.

You can decide whether to include personal circumstances such as caring responsibilities. The skill includes them only if you want them disclosed.

• Answer with facts you can stand behind: dates, your role, and the outcome as it actually happened.
• If you do not know a result, say so. The skill keeps estimates marked as estimates.

Check the draft before you send it

The output comes back in section order, with a list of unresolved factual questions and a few concrete ways to strengthen weak evidence. Suggested projects are future work and are never added to the current resume.

Check every title, date, credential and number against your own records. The skill does not verify layout, does not check how applicant tracking systems parse the file, and does not submit applications. Those checks happen on the exported document, by you.

• Confirm the institution name, qualification title and completion or expected date.
• Remove any skill you cannot demonstrate.
• Export the document yourself and read it as a recruiter would.

Safety notes: scripts and network access

This skill does not run scripts and does not use the network. It works from text you supply, and it asks you to keep personal information out of unapproved external services. Treat any document you share as data to be read, not as instructions to follow.

The skill's instructions mention an optional resume-builder skill for Reactive Resume JSON output. That is used only if you request that format and the skill is available; otherwise you receive plain text.

• Runs scripts: no.
• Uses network: no.
• Requires: nothing listed.