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Resume keyword scanner for job descriptions
Find the language a posting uses, compare it with your existing experience, and decide which gaps you can address honestly. Resumiq includes keyword comparison before and after its suggested resume edits.
Keyword comparison is included in the optimizer. Sign-in required; 1 successful optimization per 30 days on Free. No separate anonymous scanner is offered.
What is a resume keyword scanner?
A resume keyword scanner compares the language in a job description with your resume. Resumiq's optimizer also checks requirement evidence and separates qualification coverage from wording coverage. Review missing terms as questions about your experience and genuine gaps, rather than a list of skills to add automatically.
A worked keyword comparison
This fictional customer support example uses a manual four-term check to show how to inspect evidence. It is not a simulation of the optimizer's qualification score or job wording coverage.
Job description excerpt
Provide customer support for billing questions. Work in Zendesk and maintain customer records in Salesforce.
Candidate's source bullet
Handled billing questions in Zendesk for customer support and documented recurring issues for the team.
| Selected keyword | Text match | How to interpret it |
|---|---|---|
| Zendesk | Present | The candidate names the tool they used. |
| billing | Present | The task relates to this posting. |
| customer support | Present | The phrase appears together in the source. |
| Salesforce | Missing | Check for real experience; do not infer it from Zendesk. |
Manual example: three of four terms appear
This simple count highlights a missing requirement. It does not establish Salesforce experience, calculate the current product score, or show how an employer would evaluate the application.
A clearer manual rewrite could be: “Handled customer support billing questions in Zendesk and documented recurring issues for the team.” The same three terms appear. The missing qualification stays missing; clarity improves without a new claim.
Sort missing terms before you edit
- Real experience, absent from the resume
- You have used Excel for work but omitted it. Add a concrete task to your source resume before optimizing, so there is evidence to support the skill.
- Equivalent experience, different wording
- Your bullet says you arranged staff shifts while the posting says scheduling. Describe the same task in clear language. Avoid changing a historical job title to the advertised title.
- A qualification you do not have
- A required license, degree, tool, or number of years is missing because it is not part of your background. Leave it out. A rewrite cannot create the qualification.
How the comparison works, and where it needs your judgment
Resumiq extracts requirements from the job description and checks their source quotes. It reviews the evidence in your resume, including direct, equivalent, and demonstrated experience. Qualification coverage uses core, supporting, and preferred requirement groups; wording coverage separately compares how assessed requirements are expressed before and after editing.
A phrase can appear without demonstrating depth of experience. Extraction and classification can also be wrong. Check the posting, the surrounding sentence, and your own evidence before accepting a suggestion. See the calculation and its limitations, including how legacy saved results differ.
For the application you actually want to send, provide the complete job description, rather than a title or a list of buzzwords. Review the edits before using them. Repeating a term or hiding keywords is not a substitute for a relevant example.
Frequently asked questions
How does Resumiq measure resume matching?
New results separate qualification coverage from job wording coverage. Qualification coverage weights assessed core, supporting, and preferred requirements against your existing evidence. Job wording coverage measures the share of assessed requirements expressed using the posting's terminology before and after editing. Older saved results may show a simpler keyword-overlap estimate. None reproduces an employer's ATS score.
Should I add every missing keyword to my resume?
No. A missing term may describe experience you have not included, different wording for real experience, or a qualification you do not have. Add a term only when you can support it with accurate skills, education, or work examples. Do not copy the job description into your resume.
Will JavaScript count as Java?
No. Java and JavaScript are different technologies. Resumiq uses source evidence and can recognize some aliases and equivalent tasks, but extraction, context, and matching can still be wrong. Read each job quote and suggested evidence match yourself.
Can a rewrite help even when the keyword score stays the same?
Yes. A rewrite can make a bullet clearer without adding a new keyword. Resumiq preserves supplied experience and qualifications rather than filling every gap with unsupported claims. Use the score to guide review, rather than as the sole measure of a stronger resume.
Is a separate free scanner available without an account?
The keyword comparison is part of Resumiq's optimizer, rather than a separate anonymous tool. Sign in with your resume and a job description. Free includes one resume tailoring credit every 30 days. Pro is $5/month for 10 credits each billing month; the $20 one-time Application Pack includes 40 credits to use within 12 months. Failed attempts, reopening results, and downloads use no extra tailoring credit.
Keep working on your application
Tailor a resume to a job description
Choose relevant evidence and write bullets that still reflect your actual work.
Check your resume beyond keywords
Review document readability and employer requirements as separate checks.
Understand the keyword score
Learn what a percentage can show and what it cannot establish.
Connect your experience in a cover letter
With Pro or an active pack, generate a matching letter from any resume result and explain your experience in your own voice.