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The Claude Literacy Checklist: 12 Skills Recruiters Will Expect in 2027
Score yourself on the 12 practical AI skills employers are starting to test for — and see what to learn next.
How to use this checklist
Give yourself 1 point for each skill you can do confidently today. 0–4: beginner, 5–8: practitioner, 9–12: AI-native.
Prompting
- I can write a prompt with role, context, task, constraints and output format.
- I can give examples in a prompt to get consistent results.
- I can break a large task into a sequence of smaller prompts.
Working with documents
- I can ask AI to answer only from documents I provide, with citations.
- I can extract structured data (tables) from messy PDFs and verify it.
- I can summarise long material for a specific audience.
Building
- I can build a simple assistant or bot for a specific purpose.
- I can connect AI to a spreadsheet or form with a no-code automation.
- I can create images or video for a real use case.
Judgment
- I can spot hallucinations and verify claims against sources.
- I know what data must never go into public AI tools.
- I can explain when AI should NOT be used for a task.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is Claude literacy?
Claude literacy is the practical ability to use AI assistants like Claude effectively and responsibly — prompting well, working with documents, building simple tools and verifying output.