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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.

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 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. 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.

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. 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. Mirror the phrasing where your experience genuinely supports it. 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.

Always, on every job, with no account needed. Scoring runs one cheap model call, so there is no reason to gate it. What costs a credit is the rewrite — tailoring a full resume runs a much larger model. We never blur the score to make you pay; a number you cannot verify is not worth charging for.