BIZMATCH guide

How to compare your resume to a job posting

Last reviewed 5 October 2026. General information only. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice.

Whether a person or a program reads your application first, the words you use matter. Comparing your resume with the posting takes about fifteen minutes and shows what to adjust.

Read the posting for repeated terms

Copy the posting into a document. Mark skills, tools and duties that appear more than once. The ones in the title and the first lines of the requirements list usually matter most.

Check each term against your resume, honestly

For every term, ask: have I done this, and can I give an example? If yes, make sure the resume says so in words a reader will recognise. If not, leave it out.

Use the posting's wording where it is true

If you wrote 'client onboarding' and the posting says 'customer onboarding', matching the posting's words costs nothing and is still accurate.

Never add what is not true

Interviewers ask about what is on the page. A skill you cannot talk about hurts more than a gap does.

What a keyword check cannot tell you

It cannot tell you whether you are right for the role, how you rank against other applicants, or what a particular employer's system does. No tool can guarantee an interview or a job.

Common questions

Is the free checker an applicant tracking system score?

No. It is a plain word-overlap check between the two texts you paste. It does not predict how any employer's system will treat your resume.

Does BIZMATCH write my resume for me?

No. It rephrases bullets using only what your resume already says. You decide what stays, and you are responsible for every line.

Next step

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Also read: How to rewrite resume bullets without stretching the truth

This guide was drafted with AI help and edited by a person. Check anything important against the official source for your situation.