Free Job Description Keyword Finder

The fastest way to tailor a resume is to use the same words the employer used. Applicant tracking systems (ATS) and human recruiters both scan for matches with the job posting, and the closer your resume mirrors that language, the better your shot at an interview.

Paste any job ad below to see which terms show up most often. The bigger a word in the cloud, the more weight it likely carries in screening.

You can also use the tool to analyze keywords in your resume. To do so, paste your resume in the field instead of the job ad.

How to read the keyword results

The analyzer counts every word in the posting, strips out filler (the, and, with, for), and ranks what’s left by frequency. Anything in the top 10 to 15 should already exist in your resume, or it needs to.

Three categories of keywords matter most:

Hard skills and tools: Software, platforms, certifications, and methodologies (Salesforce, SQL, AWS, Six Sigma, Adobe Creative Suite). These are usually the highest-priority filters in an ATS.
Role-specific terms and job titles: “Account manager,” “underwriter,” “stakeholder management,” “demand planning.” Matching the exact wording in the posting helps recruiters tag your application against the right requisition.
Repeated soft skills and competencies: “Cross-functional,” “data-driven,” “client-facing.” If they appear more than once, the employer cares, and your resume should reflect that.

How to add the keywords to your resume

Open the keyword cloud next to your resume and check each priority word against what’s already there.

If a keyword already appears in your resume, make sure it sits somewhere a recruiter will see it on a six-second scan. That means your summary, your most recent job title, or a bullet point at the top of your latest role. A match buried on page two does almost nothing for you.

If a keyword is missing but you have the skill, add it. Rewrite a bullet so the phrasing matches the posting. If your current resume says “managed customer accounts” and the job ad says “owned client relationships,” shift your wording to mirror the ad.

If a keyword is missing and you don’t have the skill, leave it out. ATS scoring isn’t worth lying for. Hiring managers catch fabricated keywords in the interview, every time.

One rule that keeps your resume credible. Keywords need context. “Salesforce” sitting alone in a skills list does less for you than “Built Salesforce dashboards that cut weekly reporting time by 40 percent.” ATS scoring and human recruiters both reward keywords paired with a result.

Tailoring your resume for each application

A single master resume sent to fifty postings is the most common reason qualified candidates get filtered out. The keyword set for a senior marketing manager role at a fintech is not the keyword set for the same title at a healthcare company, even when the duties look almost identical.

The workflow that actually works:

Keep a clean master version of your resume.
Save a fresh copy for each application.
Run the job ad through this analyzer.
Adjust your summary, skills section, and most recent role to mirror the top 10 to 15 keywords.
Submit.

Fifteen minutes of tailoring per application beats firing off the same resume a hundred times. Interview rates go up. So does the quality of the conversations you have when you do land a call.

Placement, format, and the deeper mechanics of how ATS software reads your resume sit inside our resume keyword optimization guide.

Job descriptions are the answer key

The same words an employer uses to describe a role are the words their ATS was set up to look for, and often the same words a hiring manager scans for in the first ten seconds of reading your resume. Run every posting through this tool, mirror the language that actually appears in it, and you’ll spend a lot less time wondering why your applications go nowhere.