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Resume Keyword Match Scorer
Paste a job description and your resume. See your top-keyword match score, the matched terms, and the gaps — without paying Jobscan or Teal premium. Browser-only, no upload.
Updated May 2026
(Top-N most frequent meaningful words from the JD.)
Paste a JD and your resume above to score the match.
Heuristic only. ATS systems also weight job titles, certifications, and skill synonyms. Don’t keyword-stuff — read the missing list, then rewrite real bullets that include the terms you actually have experience with.
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What it does
Paste a job description and your resume. The tool tokenizes the JD, ranks the most-frequent meaningful words, and shows which ones appear in your resume vs which are missing. The score is the percentage of top-N JD keywords your resume covers.
This is what Jobscan and Teal charge for — the free tier on those usually caps you at 5 scans/month. Ours has no cap because it runs entirely in your browser (we don’t pay for inference). It’s a heuristic, not a true ATS — see the FAQ below for what to do with the result.
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- Paste the full JD on the left.
- Paste your resume text on the right.
- Read the match score and the matched/missing keyword lists.
- Rewrite real bullets to include missing terms you actually have experience with — never keyword-stuff.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this how an ATS actually scores my resume?
- Roughly. Most ATS systems do keyword matching plus title-and-skill normalization (e.g. "JS" matches "JavaScript"). Our tool does straight keyword overlap — strict but transparent. If you score >70% on this, you'll usually pass automated screens.
- Should I just paste the missing keywords into my resume?
- No. Lying about skills shows up in the first 10 minutes of a phone screen. Use the missing list to identify which real experience you have but didn't articulate well, then rewrite the bullet to include the term naturally.
- Why is the score lower than Jobscan's?
- Different scoring methodology. Jobscan layers in title matching, education, and synonym groups; we don't. Use the score directionally — comparing one of your resume drafts to another for the same JD is more useful than comparing absolute numbers across tools.
- Are my resume and JD uploaded anywhere?
- No. Both stay in your browser. There's no network call, no analytics tied to text content, no server.
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Formula
Score = matched_keywords / top_N_keywords × 100. JD is tokenized (lowercase, alphanumeric + hyphen + plus + dot), stopwords + sub-3-character tokens dropped. Tokens ranked by frequency; top N (default 30) become the keyword set. Resume tokenized identically; coverage = |keyword_set ∩ resume_tokens|.
What this assumes
Pure surface-keyword matching. No NER (named entity recognition), no skill-synonym graph, no title normalization. Real ATS systems (Greenhouse, iCIMS, SAP SuccessFactors) layer additional signals — treat this score as directional, not authoritative. Keyword-stuffing inflates the score but fails on a phone screen.
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Guides about this topic
- Money & Business · GuideThe Free Job Search Tool Stack (2026)Replace $1,200/year of paid job-search subscriptions with seven free tools — keyword scoring, application tracking, AI tailoring, salary research, interview practice. Tested workflow for active job seekers.
- Money & Business · GuideHow to Tailor Your Resume to Job Postings for FreeThe 5-step free workflow to tailor your resume to any JD in 15 minutes. Includes the exact LLM prompt, the keyword-validation step, and how to surface matching skills without lying.
- Money & Business · GuideJobscan vs Teal vs Huntr (2026)Head-to-head comparison of the three big paid job-search tools — what each does, where free tiers cap out, and the best free combination that replaces all three. Tested across active job searches.
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