Guidance Counselor 2.0 + Build Your Target Company Hit List with Claude

8 Jul 2026 · 39 min
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In this 8‑week live series, host Taylor Desseyn walks the Torque community through week 2 of using Claude AI for a job search. After brief community announcements, Taylor explains the distinction between Claude "projects" (persistent conversation memory) and "skills" (task‑specific prompts) and creates a new project for the session. He revisits the AI‑driven skills audit and values‑priorities exercise from week 1, then shifts focus to generating a targeted company hit list. Using Claude prompts, he produces a tiered list of 40‑plus companies matched to his background, complete with size, industry, fit rating, and potential objections. Taylor demonstrates pressure‑testing his positioning by having Claude draft outreach DMs and anticipate recruiter push‑backs. He then shows Claude’s red‑flag detector on a sample Head‑of‑Community job description, which surfaces cultural and scope concerns and generates interview questions. Finally, he builds a job‑search tracker spreadsheet with columns for priority, contacts, fit notes, red flags, and compensation, and outlines how to automate follow‑ups via Claude/Cowork. The session ends with a recap, a preview of a live resume rewrite for week 3, and calls to join the Torque Discord and share the stream.

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