Resume Keyword Scanner
Compare your resume against any job description and see exactly which keywords you are missing — before the ATS does. Free, no sign-up, and nothing you paste leaves your browser.
How to Use the Results
Paste the job description
Copy the entire posting — requirements, responsibilities, everything. The scanner extracts the terms that appear most, which is a strong proxy for what the ATS is configured to screen for.
Paste your resume
Copy all the text from your current resume. Nothing is uploaded: extraction and matching run entirely in your browser.
Add the missing keywords you honestly have
Work each missing keyword you genuinely possess into your skills section or an experience bullet, using the posting's exact wording. Never add skills you do not have — the keywords get you the interview, and the interview verifies them.
Keyword Matching FAQ
Why do keywords matter so much?
Most mid-size and large employers filter applications with ATS software before a human looks at them, and recruiters themselves search their database by keyword. If the posting says "project management" and your resume says "led projects", a literal keyword match can miss you. Studies consistently find unoptimized resumes are missing roughly half the keywords from their target posting.
What match rate should I aim for?
There is no magic number, but 70%+ of the extracted keywords is a strong position — provided every keyword is honest. Below 45% usually means the resume was not written with this job in mind and needs real tailoring, not just keyword sprinkling.
Should I copy the job description into my resume?
No — keyword stuffing is obvious to recruiters and some ATS platforms flag it. Use the exact terms where they are true, once or twice each, inside real sentences: in your skills section and inside achievement bullets that prove the skill.
How does this scanner pick keywords?
It strips filler words, then ranks the remaining terms and repeated two-word phrases by frequency in the posting. Frequency is not perfect, but terms a company repeats in its own posting are reliably the ones its recruiters search for.
Tailor Your Resume in the Builder
One Simple Resume's Job Tailoring tool does this matching against your actual resume as you edit, so every application ships with the right keywords in place. Free, no account.