Tailor your resume to a job description, free

Check your résumé against the posting

Add your résumé and paste the job description. You get the posting’s key words, each marked by whether your résumé uses it, plus an ATS score and three fixes. No sign-up.

A free prompt for ChatGPT or Claude

Most tailoring prompts ask the AI to “make my résumé match the job”, and it does, by adding skills you don’t have. This one forbids that, lists your gaps separately, and leaves [X] where you need to fill in a number.

You are helping me tailor my résumé to one job posting.

Rules:
1. Use only facts that are already in my résumé below. Do not add any skill, tool, employer, job title, date, number or result that is not in it.
2. If the job asks for something my résumé does not show, list it under "Gaps". Do not write it into the résumé.
3. Where a number would make a line stronger but my résumé has none, write [X] for me to fill in. Never guess a number.

Do this, in order:
A. List the 10 most important requirements in the job description. Mark each one Required or Preferred.
B. For each requirement, quote the line of my résumé that shows it, or write "Not shown".
C. Rewrite up to 5 of my bullet points so they use the job description's own words for work I really did. Show each as Before / After / Which line of my résumé it came from.
D. Write my Skills line again with the job's required skills that I have listed first.
E. List the Gaps, so I can decide what to learn or what to explain in an interview.

Job description:
"""
[Paste the full job description here]
"""

My résumé:
"""
[Paste your résumé text here]
"""

One résumé, tailored change by change

Sneha, a B.Tech CSE 2025 fresher, applying for Associate Software Engineer at Ledgerline. Every new word came from somewhere else on her own résumé.

• Skills line

  Before

  Java · Python · React · Node.js · SQL

  After

  Node.js · SQL · React · Docker · Java · Python

  Why

  The posting’s must-haves move to the front. Docker was already in her final-year project, so it joins the list.

• Internship bullet

  Before

  Worked on various backend tasks during the internship

  After

  Wrote the test suite for Quayside’s orders payment API during a six-month internship

  Why

  “the tests for the orders payment API” came from her own summary.

• Oracle Java certification

  Before

  Not on her résumé

  After

  Still not on her résumé

  Why

  Another posting asked for it. She doesn’t have it, so it is shown to her as a gap and never written in.

Sneha is a sample person; her résumé is the one the BananaJobz home page is told through.

How to tailor it by hand

1. 01

   Read the posting for its required skills

   Most postings split Required from Preferred. The required ones, in the posting’s own spelling, are what a recruiter searches for.

2. 02

   Find where your résumé already shows each one

   A project, an internship, a course. If a skill is buried in a project description, put it in your skills line too.

3. 03

   Use their words for work you really did

   If they say “REST APIs” and you wrote “backend endpoints”, say REST APIs. Same work, the word they search for.

4. 04

   Move the most relevant lines up

   Reorder skills and bullets so the matches come first. A recruiter reads the top third most closely.

5. 05

   Leave the gaps out, and know them

   A skill you don’t have stays off the page. Expect to be asked about it, and have an honest answer ready.

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