Paste the posting and get an honest read on where you match and where you do not.
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Paste a job description into the optimizer and this free AI resume checker compares it against your CV line by line. You get an honest match score, a list of keywords your resume is missing, and a clear view of where your experience already lines up with what the employer is asking for. No account, no upload limits, and nothing is stored on a server.
An ATS score is an estimate of how well an applicant tracking system can parse your resume and match it to a job description. It looks at keyword overlap, formatting and section structure. A higher score means your resume is easier for both software and recruiters to read, but it is a guide, not a guarantee of an interview.
Yes, within limits. Most ATS platforms and recruiter searches do scan for specific skills and job titles, so a resume missing the exact terms in a job description can be filtered out before a human sees it. Keyword matching will not make an underqualified candidate look qualified, but it does stop a qualified candidate from being missed over wording alone.
Add every keyword from the job description that genuinely matches something you have done, usually 8 to 15 terms spread naturally across your summary, skills and experience sections. Do not force in keywords for skills you do not have — the goal is an honest match score, not a padded one.
No, but copying it word for word without editing your actual experience will read as generic to a recruiter, even if it scores well with an ATS. Use the optimizer to find gaps, then describe your real achievements using the employer’s terminology rather than pasting their sentences directly into your CV.
Many resume-matching tools are built to make you feel good about your odds, because a high match score keeps you using the tool. This one is built to save you time before you apply: it tells you plainly where your CV falls short of a posting’s requirements, not just where it succeeds, because knowing that before you apply is more useful than finding out after a rejection with no explanation.
The comparison works at three levels. First, hard requirements: years of experience, specific certifications, tools or languages the posting names explicitly — if your CV doesn’t show these, the tool flags them rather than assuming you have them. Second, keyword overlap: many ATS platforms used by employers also rank candidates by keyword match before a human ever opens the CV, so the tool lists terms from the posting that don’t currently appear anywhere in your CV, even if you likely have the underlying skill. Third, relevance of experience: whether the responsibilities and achievements you’ve listed actually speak to what the role is asking for, versus experience that’s real but not relevant to this particular application.
The output is meant to guide edits in CV Studio — add a missing keyword only if it’s genuinely true of your background, reorder bullet points to foreground the most relevant achievements first, and decide whether a gap is worth applying anyway or worth skipping this one.
