Resume Keyword Matcher — Compare Your Resume to a Job Description
Find which keywords from a job description are missing from your resume. The comparison runs locally — your resume text never leaves your browser.
Paste a job description to see its keywords ranked by importance — add your resume to find the ones you are missing.
How to find keywords in a job description.
The tool reads the job description the way a recruiter skims it: it pulls out significant terms, detects known skills and tools — including multi-word ones like “machine learning” and “a/b testing” — and keeps repeated two-word phrases as role phrases. Terms on lines like “requirements”, “must have”, or “experience with” are weighted as likely required; “preferred” and “nice to have” lines count for less.
Variants are normalized before comparing, so “ML” matches “machine learning”, “k8s” matches “kubernetes”, and hyphenated spellings match spaced ones. Paste your resume and each term is checked against it — or leave the resume blank and use it as a job description keyword finder: the same extraction, ranked by tier.
Add missing keywords honestly.
A missing keyword is a signal, not a command. Only add a keyword to your resume if it truthfully describes your experience. Listing skills you do not have will hurt you in the interview and can get you rejected after a skills test.
The keyword coverage is a rough indicator of alignment — required terms weigh more than nice-to-haves. A high coverage does not guarantee an interview, and a low one does not mean you are unqualified — many strong candidates use different terminology for the same skill.
The tool checks for keyword presence in plain text. It does not parse PDF formatting, evaluate context, or replicate how a specific ATS scores resumes.
Common questions.
Do ATSs auto-reject resumes for missing keywords?
Mostly no — that is largely a myth. Most applicant tracking systems rank your application and let recruiters search and filter; they rarely auto-reject on keywords alone. The real auto-reject is knockout questions — work authorization, location, required certifications. Keywords still matter: they decide whether a recruiter finds you in a filtered search, and whether your resume reads as relevant in the first scan.
What keyword coverage is good enough?
There is no universal threshold, and coverage is not a score a recruiter will ever see. Prioritize the required-tier terms — covering most of those matters more than the overall percentage. Roughly three quarters coverage of what the JD emphasizes is a solid signal, but only count keywords that honestly describe your experience.
Should I add keywords I do not actually have?
No. Never fabricate skills to match a job description — interviews, reference checks, and skills tests expose it quickly, and it can get an offer rescinded. The honest version of keyword matching is translation: describe the experience you do have in the vocabulary the job description uses.
Where should the keywords go on my resume?
Tools and technical skills belong in a dedicated skills section and inside the bullets where you actually used them — context beats lists. Role phrases fit naturally in the summary or bullet wording. Soft skills should be evidenced by a concrete result, not listed bare.
Your resume text stays in your browser.
This tool does not upload, store, or transmit your resume or the job description — uploaded files are read locally too. All analysis runs in your browser. Analytics may record that the tool was used, subject to consent, but never the pasted text, keywords, or coverage result.
For the broader workflow, see how to stop retyping job application information.
See this match on every job, without pasting anything.
On an application form, Jobsistant reads the job description and shows which of its listed skills are in your profile, weighting the required ones, and which are missing. Add a skill only if it reflects your experience; the form then fills from the same profile.
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