Resume keyword scanner
Paste a job description and your resume, and see which of the posting’s asks your resume demonstrates, which it only lists, and which it does not mention. It is the same match engine the builder uses, running in this tab.
The whole posting, headings and all — the headings are how requirements are told apart from perks.
Select all in Word or your PDF viewer, copy, and paste. Nothing you paste leaves this tab.
How it reads a posting
A skill under “Requirements” is a bar; the same skill in the company blurb is decoration. So the posting is split at its headings and each part counts for what it is:
| Section | Counts |
|---|---|
| Requirements“Requirements”, “You must have” | 3× |
| Responsibilities“What you’ll do” | 2× |
| Nice to have“Preferred”, “Bonus points” | 1× |
| Benefits and perksSalary, holiday, equipment | ignored |
| About the companyThe company describing itself | ignored |
Demonstrated, listed, or missing
- Demonstrated
- Your resume names it somewhere other than the skills list. An experience or project bullet counts most; a job title, a certification, your education or your summary count for less. That is evidence rather than a claim.
- Listed only
- It appears in your skills list and nowhere else. A claim, not evidence — usually the quickest thing to fix, by naming it in the bullet where you used it.
- Missing
- The posting asks for it and your resume does not mention it. Sometimes that is a gap; sometimes you have it and never wrote it down.
Why repeating keywords does not work here
The easy way to raise a keyword number is to paste the posting’s words into your resume until they match. This engine was built so that does not pay: a skill repeated far more often than writing needs lowers the result instead of raising it, and a “bullet” that is really a list of keywords counts as a list, not as evidence. The honest resume should come out ahead of the stuffed one against the same posting — that is tested, not hoped.
What this is not
It is not a prediction of what any employer’s system will do with your application. Nobody outside an employer knows how theirs ranks candidates, and a tool that says otherwise is guessing. What this shows is the comparison a careful person would make with both documents side by side: what the posting asks for, and where your resume shows it.
It recognises software and engineering tools, and the terms of healthcare, teaching, office, finance, retail, HR and sales work. It is not exhaustive: where a posting names nothing it knows, it says so, rather than inventing a result.
Keep reading
Before you compare
See the text a parser recovers from your PDF or Word file first.
Check that each bullet says what you did, how, and what changed.
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