Compare Your Resume to a Job Description

The Resume Job Description Match tool allows you to quickly compare your existing resume to the job description of any role. Get an instant match score with a breakdown of how well your resume aligns with the language, keywords, and skills from the job. See how your resume stacks up to any job.

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Start Tailoring Your Resumes to Specific Jobs

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Compare Your Resume to Any Job in Seconds

The Resume Job Description Match tool is designed for speed, convenience, and accuracy, to help enhance your job application process.

Compare your resume to a job in seconds and get meaningful insights about how you can better tailor your resume to the individual position.

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Identify Important Words & Skills that Matter to the Position

A key part of tailoring your resume to a particular job is mirroring the language from the job description to position yourself as a strong fit.

Quickly uncover which words and skills are prioritized in the job description to guide the next steps you take with your resume.

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Remove the Guesswork and Tailor Your Resume with Purpose

Maximize your chances of landing an interview by tailoring your resumes to individual job opportunities.

Use the Resume Job Description Match to customize your resume skills, experiences, and overall language to the position, before you apply.

A Smarter Way to Compare & Analyze Your Resume

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When updating and optimizing your resume, it’s best to have some clear direction so that you aren’t working blind.

To run a successful job search, you can’t use the same resume over and over for every job you apply to. Positions are different, they contain different requirements and nuances that ultimately matter to the employer. 

Your resume should be customized for the specific job you’re applying to.

Our Resume Job Description Match is designed to help facilitate the process of tailoring a resume to a specific job. It compares your skills, experiences, and overall language to the content from the job description to uncover patterns, insights that can add clarity to your process.

How to Match Your Resume to a Job

Import your existing resume into the resume builder.

If you don't have an existing resume, you can import your LinkedIn profile, or create a resume from scratch in minutes.

The more details you provide in your resume, the better your comparison will be.

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Select a Job to Match with Your Resume

Next, choose a specific job descrpition that you want to attach to your resume. This should be a position that you're looking to apply for.

You can either use the dropdown menu to select a job directly from your Job Tracker, or you can create a new job here to use for the comparison.

Compare Your Resume to the Job Description

Simply click “Analyze & Compare” and wait for your match score results to display.

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Review Your Match Score Results

Your Match Score will represent how closely your existing resume aligns with the job description you compared it to.

A good match score is 80% or higher.

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The Smarter, Faster Way to Build a Resume

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  • Unlimited Resumes
  • Unlimited Resumes Templates
  • Unlimited Job Tracking
  • Top 5 Keywords
  • 1 Email Template Per job stage
  • Limited AI Usage for Resume Bullets (10), Professional Summaries (2) and Cover Letter (2)
  • Basic analysis in the resume builder
  • Basic Resume Keyword Matching
  • Everything in Teal Free
  • Unlimited Advanced Resume Analysis
  • Unlimited Resume Keyword Matching
  • Unlimited AI Usage for Resume Bullets, Professional Summaries and Cover Letter
  • Unlimited keywords (hard and soft skills) listed in the job tracker
  • Unlimited Email Templates
  • No ads across the entire platform
  • 24/7 Email Support

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