Free tool
Resume keyword checker
Paste the job posting and your resume, or one bullet. See which of the posting’s terms you already use and which you are missing. Free, no signup; nothing you paste leaves your browser.
Result
The keyword match appears here once both boxes have text: the share of the posting’s terms your text contains, with the matched and missing terms listed.
How to use it
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Paste the posting
The requirements section is enough, and gives the sharpest read. The checker drops common words and keeps the rest as the posting’s terms.
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Paste your resume, or one bullet
The whole resume against the whole posting gives the overall picture. One bullet against the requirements tells you how that bullet reads.
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Read the missing list, not just the score
Add the terms that are true of you, in the posting’s wording. Skip the ones that are not. A term you cannot back up in an interview does not belong on the resume.
What the number is, and is not
It is a keyword match, not an ATS score
The number is the share of the posting’s meaningful terms that appear in your text: the same keyword match the Resume Master editor shows while you type. An applicant tracking system does more than count words, and so does the app’s full ATS check, which adds format, completeness and length.
Nothing you paste leaves your browser
The text is scored on your device. We record that the checker was used and the score it showed, so we know the page is useful; never the posting or the resume.
There is no magic number
No score guarantees an interview and a low score does not rule one out. The list of missing terms is the useful part: it shows where your wording and the employer’s diverge.
Questions about the keyword checker
Is this an ATS resume checker?
It is the keyword half of one. Applicant tracking systems store your resume and let recruiters search it, so the words matter, but format and structure matter too. The number here counts only the posting’s terms present in your text. For the format, completeness and length checks as well, open the resume in Resume Master, where the same keyword match runs live alongside them.
What counts as a keyword?
Every word in the posting longer than two characters, minus common words such as “the”, “and” and “with”. Terms like C++ and Node.js keep their punctuation. Matching is exact, so “analyzed” and “analysis” are different terms; where the posting’s form is true of you, use its form.
What is a good score?
There is no threshold to hit. A resume that repeats every word of a posting reads as stuffed, and recruiters notice. Aim to cover the requirements you genuinely meet, in the posting’s vocabulary, and let the rest go.
Does my resume get uploaded or stored?
No. The page runs the check in your browser and keeps nothing. The only thing sent anywhere is an analytics event saying the checker was used and what score it showed.
How do I add the missing terms without lying?
Take each missing term and ask whether you have done that thing. If yes, find the bullet where it happened and rewrite it in the posting’s wording, keeping the facts. If no, leave it out. The resume examples show what strong, honest bullets look like for your job title.
Can Resume Master do the rewrite for me?
Yes. Paste the posting in the app and it rewrites your resume against what the employer asked for, in about two minutes, with the same keyword match shown before and after. It never invents experience. Three AI credits are free, with no card.
Looking for what a strong resume for your title reads like? Browse the resume examples, each with a full sample resume you can start from.
Now get the rewrite.
Paste the same posting in Resume Master and read your resume’s version of it in about two minutes.
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