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Resume Keyword Checker

Keywords are not decoration — see which ones you have earned and which are just sitting in a list.

  • Deterministic — the same document always gives the same result
  • Every finding quotes the line of your resume that triggered it
  • Parsed in memory and discarded. Never stored, never trained on

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Drop a resume here, or click to choose a file PDF, DOCX, DOC or TXT · up to 10 MB
…or paste the resume text instead
Deterministic analysis. Nothing is uploaded to a model, and your document is not stored.

What this tool gives you

  • Every recognised keyword in your resume, grouped by category
  • Each one graded: demonstrated in described work, or listed only
  • The count of times each appears, with the strongest supporting excerpt
  • Which categories your resume is thin in

How it works

  1. Add your resume

    Upload a PDF or DOCX resume, or paste the text directly. Nothing is stored — the analysis runs on the document you submit and the file is discarded.

  2. The engine analyses it

    A deterministic engine reads the document and extracts the facts — structure, skills, dates, evidence. No language model is involved, so the same document always produces the same result.

  3. Read the evidence behind every result

    You get the findings with the reasoning attached: what was found, where it was found in the document, and what to change. No score arrives without an explanation.

Keyword advice usually stops at "include keywords from the job description". That is half the story and the less important half. A recruiter reading your resume can tell the difference between a skill named in a list and a skill named next to something you built with it — and so can an interviewer, thirty seconds into asking about it.

So this tool grades every keyword it finds. "Demonstrated" means the term appears alongside language describing real work. "Listed only" means it appears in a list with nothing behind it. Both count for something; they do not count the same. Stuffing a skills section with terms you cannot discuss is the fastest way to fail a screening call.

Frequently asked questions

How many keywords should my resume have?
There is no target number, and chasing one is the mistake. What matters is that the keywords a specific role asks for are present and supported. Ten well-evidenced skills beat forty in a list — use Resume vs JD Match to see which ones a particular job actually wants.
Does keyword stuffing work?
Against a naive keyword filter, briefly. Against a person, no — and it costs you the interview rather than the screen. Modern platforms, including this one, grade whether the surrounding text supports the claim, so a bare list scores lower than the same terms shown in context.
What counts as "demonstrated"?
The keyword appears within about 90 characters of language describing real work — built, led, migrated, deployed, reduced, shipped, and so on, or inside a project or system description. The strongest such excerpt is shown next to the keyword so you can check the judgement yourself.
Should I match the job description word for word?
Match the terminology where it is truthful. If a JD says "REST APIs" and you wrote "web services" for the same work, use their wording — that is accuracy, not gaming. Never add a term you cannot speak to.

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