ATS keyword checker
Find the Keywords Your Resume May Be Missing
Compare your resume with a job description to identify relevant skills, terminology, and experience that may need stronger representation.
- Paste the job description and ResmiAI extracts what it asks for
- See which terms your resume already covers — and which it does not
- Guidance only: only include what accurately describes your experience
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Illustrative comparison — your real report lists the terms found in your resume.
Why it matters
Why keywords matter — and what they cannot do
Applicant tracking systems and recruiters both look for the terminology a role uses, so using the same language for the same work makes your relevance easier to see. Keyword matching is only one part of a resume, and it is never a substitute for real experience.
A resume without the role’s terminology is not rejected automatically, and a resume stuffed with keywords does not get shortlisted on its own. What changes is how quickly a reader — human or software — can tell that you have done the work being described.
Required skills
Identify the skills the job description treats as essential.
Relevant terminology
Find the words the employer actually uses for the work.
Resume coverage
Show which relevant terms already appear in your resume.
Potential gaps
Highlight areas that may deserve attention — as questions, not instructions.
How it works
How the keyword comparison works
ResmiAI reads the job description to extract its requirements and terminology, then checks your resume text for those terms and reports the overlap, the gaps and the skills behind them.
Upload your resume
PDF or DOCX — the same file you would send to an employer.
Paste the job description
The posting is read once and reused for every later check.
Review the overlap
See matched terms, missing terms and the skills that were named.
Decide what is accurate
You decide what genuinely reflects your experience.
- C#✓ ✓
- .NET✓ ✓
- REST APIs✓ ✓
- Azure✓ ✕
- Docker✓ ✓
- Kubernetes✓ ✕
Illustrative comparison — your real report lists the terms found in your resume.
Important
Use the comparison honestly
A keyword checker can only measure alignment. It cannot know which of those terms you actually have, so the decision about what to include is always yours.
Once the gaps are clear, ResmiAI can generate a CV tailored to this posting from your real experience — written to the same checklist, on a 0 to 100 scale where a fully tailored CV can reach 100.
Never add a keyword just because an analyzer suggests it
Only include skills, tools, qualifications and experience that accurately represent your background. Naming a technology you cannot discuss in an interview is the fastest way to lose a role you could have won.
- A missing term is a question: "have I done this work?" If yes, say so more clearly.
- If the answer is no, leave it out — and consider whether the role is the right target.
- Prefer rewording real experience over adding new claims.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Should I add every keyword from a job description?
No. Add a term only when it accurately describes work you have actually done. The checker measures alignment; it cannot verify your background, and recruiters will ask about anything you claim.
How does an ATS keyword checker work?
It reads the job description through ResmiAI’s job analysis to extract requirements, skills and terminology, then compares those terms with the text extracted from your resume and reports what is present and what is missing.
Are missing keywords why my applications get no response?
Not on their own. Formatting that parses poorly, a structure that hides your experience, and a resume that does not address the role’s core requirements all matter too. ResmiAI reports all of them together.
Will adding keywords improve my resume score?
It improves the keyword-alignment metric when the terms reflect real experience. Structure, formatting and experience-relevance metrics are usually more valuable to fix first.
Can I check several job descriptions?
Yes. Each job description is analyzed once and stored, so checking additional postings against the same resume is fast. Every distinct resume and job combination is reported separately.
Does the keyword check use AI?
AI is used once per new job description to understand its requirements. The comparison itself is a deterministic text match, so the same resume and description always produce the same result.
Find out which terms your resume is missing.
Compare it with the job description — then decide what is genuinely yours to add.