Applications and Interviews - Claude Cheat Sheet

Turning your experience into an inventory of evidence, then into honest, tailored applications - a base CV you cut from, adverts taken apart, cover letters you write yourself. Then interview practice on real events, the follow-up drill, and answering a gap honestly.

On the sheet:

- From what you did to what you say: four fields into a STAR answer, and the ten-minute test

- Be questioned into an inventory: turn everything you have done into evidence

- Take the advert apart: must-haves, would-likes, and your real gaps

- The tracker: which stage you keep losing at

- The base CV you never send: the long source you cut every application from

- Tailor by cutting, never by inventing: reorder and re-emphasize, add nothing

- The cover letter: answer three questions first, then write it yourself

- Research that goes past the website: facts another candidate would not find

- A practice interview that is actually hard: a skeptical interviewer and the real follow-ups

- Drill the second question: the follow-up almost nobody practices

- The gap you cannot answer: an honest response, and what stays yours

Two A4 pages, printed front and back, sized to print once and keep beside you while you work. Written in short sentences and plain English, for readers whose first language is not English and clearer for everyone else because of it.

It pairs with the Application Engine and The Interview Coach books, so you can learn each idea in full and then revise it here in two pages.

Every product fact on this sheet - every plan, price, limit, setting and menu - was checked against Anthropic's own published documentation before the file was made. This is an independent study guide, not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Anthropic. Instant PDF download. By M.R. Sterling.