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Work backwards from the posting. Pull out its requirements and rank them by how hard the posting leans on each one — things stated first, repeated, or marked required carry more weight than a line in a nice-to-have list. Then go line by line and ask what in the resume evidences each requirement. You will find three answers: covered, partly covered under different words, and genuinely absent. That third list is the useful one, because it tells you whether this is a stretch application or a waste of an evening. Doing it by hand for one job takes about fifteen minutes, which is why almost nobody does it for the fortieth application. That is the whole job this tool does: it extracts the requirements, ranks them, and marks each one met, partial or missing against your actual resume text. Nothing is inferred about you that your resume does not already say.

Above roughly 75% on the requirements the posting treats as essential, and you are a normal applicant rather than a hopeful one. Between 50 and 75, you are a stretch: worth applying if you can address the gaps directly in a cover note or a referral, and worth skipping if you are firing off ten applications tonight. Below 50 on the must-haves, the honest answer is usually no, and pretending otherwise costs you the hours you could spend on a better-fitting role. Treat any single number with suspicion, including ours. What matters is which requirements are missing, not the average. Missing two nice-to-haves is noise; missing the one technology named four times in the posting is the whole story. That is why the score here always sits next to the ranked list that produced it, rather than standing on its own.

No, and trying to is how people end up with resumes that read like a tag cloud. Modern applicant tracking systems handle synonyms and stemming, so “wrote automated tests” and “test automation” are not strangers to each other. The real reason to use the posting's vocabulary is human: a recruiter skimming for familiar terms finds them faster when you use the words they just wrote. So mirror the phrasing where your experience genuinely supports it, and keep both forms where it reads naturally. What you must not do is add a keyword for something you have not done. It survives the resume screen and then collapses in the first technical conversation, which is a worse outcome than not being called. If a keyword is missing because the experience is missing, that is a gap to acknowledge, not a hole to paper over.