Free tool
See the words the advert wants, and the ones you are missing.
In developmentPaste a job advert and your resume. The checker pulls out the terms that advert is built on, marks the ones already on your page, and lists what is missing along with where it belongs.
- About two minutes
- Nothing stored
- No email required
How it will work
Two boxes, one button, three lists back. No account, no upload, and nothing kept once you close the tab.
- 1
Paste the advert
The whole thing, including the responsibilities and the requirements. The more of it the tool can read, the better it can tell a real requirement from a bit of company boilerplate.
- 2
Paste your resume
Copy the text out of your .docx rather than uploading a file. Nothing leaves your browser and nothing is saved.
- 3
Read the three lists
What the advert is built on, what you already say, and what is missing with a note on whether it belongs in a bullet or in the skills line.
Why the vocabulary gap costs interviews
Recruiters do not read every application. They search the pile, and they search using the words in the advert they wrote. If your page describes the same work in different words, you are not rejected, you simply never appear in the result.
The gap is almost never ability. It is that the advert says stakeholder management and your resume says worked with other teams. Both describe the same job. Only one is searchable.
This is also where keyword stuffing goes wrong. Pasting fifty terms into white text at the bottom of the page is an old trick that modern systems catch and recruiters bin. What works is using the right word once, in the bullet where you actually did the thing.
The gap, in practice
Same work. One version is found by a search, the other is not.
- Not searchableWorked with other teams to deliver projectsSearchableLed stakeholder management across [X] departments to deliver [X] projects
- Not searchableLooked after the accountsSearchableOwned month-end close and account reconciliation for a [X] entity ledger
- Not searchableHelped customers with problemsSearchableResolved [X] support tickets a month at [X]% first contact resolution
- Not searchableUsed computer systems dailySearchableWorked in [Salesforce] and [SAP] daily, including [reporting and data entry]
Do it by hand today
The tool automates this. The method itself is free, and takes about fifteen minutes per application.
- 1Print the advert, or paste it into a documentYou need to be able to mark it up. Reading it on the job board and trying to remember is where this falls apart.
- 2Highlight every noun that names a skill, tool or processIgnore the adjectives. Nobody searches for dynamic or passionate. They search for reconciliation, Salesforce, safeguarding, CDL, triage.
- 3Note anything that appears twiceRepetition in an advert is not sloppy writing. It is the thing the hiring manager actually cares about, and it usually belongs in your top two bullets.
- 4Search your own resume for each oneUse the find function. If the word is not there and the skill is genuinely yours, rewrite the bullet that covers it using their word instead of yours.
- 5Stop when you run out of true onesNever add a term for something you cannot discuss for two minutes in an interview. The keyword gets you read; the conversation gets you hired.
Or skip the work
Every Career Kit ships with an ATS keyword bank already written for that job title, grouped into titles, hard skills and tools, with a note on where each group belongs on the page.
Find your job titleQuestions about this tool
When will the tool be live?
It is in build now. There is no date on it because putting a fake one here would be the first thing on this site that was not true. The method above works in the meantime and is what the tool automates.
Will you keep my resume?
No. The checker is designed to run in your browser, so the text never reaches a server and nothing is stored. You will not need an account or an email address.
Does a high match score mean I get the job?
No, and the tool will not give you a score for exactly that reason. No applicant tracking system publishes a pass mark, so any percentage would be invented. It will show you which terms are missing and leave the judgement to you.
Should I add every missing keyword?
Only the true ones. A term you cannot defend in an interview costs you more than the keyword gains you.
Does this replace tailoring my resume?
It is the fastest part of tailoring, not all of it. The summary line and your top two bullets still need to speak to the specific role.
Everything these tools check is already written into the templates. The Career Kit carries the keyword bank, the bullet library and the formatting guidance for your job title today.