Job Description Keyword Finder

It's a free tool that reads a job posting and pulls out the keywords and skills it screens for. This one goes further: it also reads your resume and tells you which of those keywords you already have and which you're missing, ranked by importance, so you know exactly what to add.

Read the requirements section first and list every tool, skill, certification and degree it names, then add the job title. Mark anything repeated or named in the first few bullets as a priority. Or paste the job description and your resume above: in about a minute you'll get the job's keywords grouped into critical, important and nice-to-have, with a match score and a placement tip for every keyword you're missing. No account, no credit card.

They are the specific skills, tools, qualifications and job-title terms an employer uses to describe the role, such as "SQL", "GAAP", "PMP" or "account executive". Recruiters type the same words into their applicant tracking system to search for candidates, which is why a resume that uses them comes up and one that describes the same work differently does not.

Paste the posting into the finder above with your resume, and it extracts the keywords for you and ranks them by importance. To extract them by hand, copy the requirements and responsibilities sections into a document, highlight every concrete skill, tool, certification and qualification, then mark the ones that appear twice or in the first few bullets as priorities.

Aim to cover the critical ones and most of the important ones - usually 10 to 15 terms for one posting - but only the ones you can back up with real experience. There is no keyword count that guarantees an interview, and a resume stuffed with terms reads badly to the person who opens it.

Use the posting's word for a skill you have, yes: if the job says "stakeholder management" and you wrote "managing partners", use their phrase at least once. Write acronyms both ways ("Project Management Professional (PMP)"). Do not copy whole sentences from the posting; reword your own experience with their terms.

Rarely on its own. Most applicant tracking systems store every application and let recruiters search and filter it by keyword, so a resume missing the job's terms is less likely to come up in that search. Automatic rejection usually comes from knockout questions in the application form, such as work authorization or a required license.

Yes - the full keyword gap report is free: the match score, every matched and missing keyword, the importance ranking, and where to add each. There's no locked section and no signup. Want a full document critique too? Run the free resume review after this one.

Because recruiters search their applicant tracking system with the job's own words. In a 2025 Jobscan survey of 384 recruiters, 76.4% filter candidates by skills and 55.3% by job title. If your resume describes the same work in different words, it doesn't come up in those searches even when you're qualified. Using the posting's keywords for experience you really have is one of the cheapest ways to get more interviews.

No. The goal is to surface skills you already have but didn't name, and to use the same wording the job uses for them. The tool only flags a keyword as missing when it isn't in your resume text; it's up to you to add the ones you genuinely have. Never claim a skill you don't have - it falls apart in the interview.

Yes, so your report keeps working: we keep the job description and your resume's text, and an uploaded file so you can carry it into the resume builder without uploading it again. Nothing is shared, sold or used to train models. If you uploaded a file, "Delete my resume" at the foot of your report removes it and its text for good; otherwise email us and we'll delete anything you sent.