Use CareerCorner from your AI assistant

Ask Claude or ChatGPT about the jobs you're tracking and how well you fit them, and talk to the same coach you use in CareerCorner.

This is an MCP connection, the open standard AI assistants use to work with apps like this one. You do not need to know the name to follow the steps below.

What your assistant can do once connected

  • See the jobs you're tracking and where each stands.

  • Read the full job description for any of them.

  • Hear how well you fit a job, and why.

    Strengths, gaps, and whether it is worth pursuing.

  • Mark where a job stands, or add a new one.

    Paste a link and the job joins your list.

  • Talk to your coach, who already knows your search.

    The same coach you talk to in the CareerCorner app.

Reading is approved once. Changes are approved one at a time, as they come.

Things to try first

These three come built in once you are connected. Pick one, or ask in your own words.

What’s new in my matches?

Check my new matches since I last looked and tell me which ones deserve my attention and why.

How well do I fit this role?

Find the role matching "[company or job title]" among the roles I’m tracking and explain how well I fit: strengths, gaps, and whether to pursue it.

Where should I focus this week?

Look at the roles I’m tracking and where I am with each, then tell me the two or three things to focus on this week and why.

Before you start

  • A CareerCorner account. Creating one is free.Create your account
  • Claude works on every plan. The Free plan allows one custom connector.
  • ChatGPT needs Plus, Pro, Business or Enterprise. In a workspace, an admin turns on Developer mode first.
  • A computer. Add the connector from a web browser or the desktop app, not from a phone. Once added, it shows up on your phone as well.

Pick the assistant you use. The steps differ a little for each.

Connect Claude

  1. Open Claude on your computer. Go to Settings, then "Connectors".
  2. Choose "Add custom connector".
  3. Paste this address:
    https://careercorner.ai/api/mcp
  4. Open "Advanced settings" and set it up like this:
    • Authentication: "Always required".
    • "OAuth Client ID" and "OAuth Client Secret": leave both empty.
    • "Use Anthropic's hosted client metadata": leave it off.
    • Headers: add none.
  5. Choose "Connect".
You will see three screens before you are in: Claude's own confirmation, then a browser page that hands you over to CareerCorner (its line "Only continue if you started connecting" is normal), then CareerCorner's consent card, where you sign in if needed and approve.
Afterwards, everything Claude can do here shows "Needs approval" once. Allow all the read-only ones in one click, and approve changes as they come. These prompts are Claude's, and Claude decides when to show them.

The three starter prompts live under the "+" button in the message box: choose "Connectors", then "Add from CareerCorner". Ask about a job, and the link Claude gives you opens that job in CareerCorner.

Claude's message box with the "+" menu open. "Connectors" is highlighted, then "Add from CareerCorner", then the three starter prompts.
Where the three starter prompts live in Claude.

Disconnect an assistant

  1. In CareerCorner, open Settings, find "Connected assistants", and choose Revoke. The assistant loses access to your account at once.
  2. Then remove the connector inside the assistant itself, so it stops offering CareerCorner.

If something looks off

I got a page saying "Only continue if you started connecting".
That page is normal: it is the hand-off to CareerCorner, and the line is there so nobody can connect your account without you starting it.
Everything says "Needs approval".
That is your assistant asking once per thing it can do: allow the read-only ones in one click and approve changes as they come.
It does not work from my phone.
Add the connector from a computer, in a web browser or the desktop app, and it then shows up on your phone as well.
It says connections are paused for maintenance.
You will see "Assistant connections to CareerCorner are paused for maintenance. Your account and the web app are unaffected. Try again later." Nothing is lost, and the connection comes back on its own.
I do not see the starter prompts, or something new I read about.
Remove the connector in your assistant and add it again. It picks up the current set on the way back in.
Connecting fails with "Use Anthropic's hosted client metadata" turned on.
Turn that setting off and connect again.