Resume Keyword Checker — What the Posting Asks For, and What You Say
Paste a job posting and your resume, and this checker lists the terms the posting leans on most — the skills, tools and phrases it names or repeats — and shows which of them already appear in your resume and which do not. Nothing is uploaded; the comparison runs entirely in your browser, so a resume with your phone number and address never leaves your device.
It picks out three kinds of term. Phrases the posting repeats, such as "design systems" or "project management". Names it uses even once — products, languages and standards written with capitals or symbols, like React, Google Analytics, AWS, WCAG or CI/CD — because a skill is usually listed a single time. And ordinary words the posting uses more than once. Filler that every job ad contains ("experience", "strong", "team", "years") is ignored. Matching allows for small differences in form, so "managed" on your resume counts for "management" in the ad.
The coverage figure weights each term by how often the posting uses it, so missing the skill mentioned in the title, the requirements and the summary costs more than missing one mentioned in passing.
What to do with the result: add the missing terms you genuinely have, in the posting's own wording — if it says "stakeholder management" and your resume says "worked with stakeholders", use their phrase. Do not add skills you do not have; keyword matching gets a resume read, and an interview finds out the rest.
Keyword overlap is not the same as fit, and no checker can tell you how a particular company's applicant tracking system will rank you — every system works differently. For a fuller read of whether you are actually a good match, JobAssay's resume fit score, linked under your results, compares the whole posting with your resume and separates real gaps from wording gaps.
How to use the Resume Keyword Checker
- Copy the full job description and paste it into the first box.
- Copy the text of your resume and paste it into the second box.
- Press "Check keywords".
- Read your keyword coverage, then the list of terms missing from your resume.
- Add the missing terms you genuinely have, using the posting's wording, and check again.