How this calculator works
The job post is split into individual requirements using its bullets and headings. Items under “Requirements” or “Qualifications” count as required; items under “Nice to have” or “Preferred” count as preferred. Responsibilities are left out unless you include them.
Each requirement is reduced to its key terms, ignoring filler such as “strong”, “experience” or “ability to”. Common variations are matched, so “JS” matches “JavaScript”, “analyst” matches “analysis” and “led” matches “lead”.
The resume is searched line by line for those terms. A requirement is “proven” when one line covers enough of its terms and shows action or a result, such as a number, a percentage or a verb like “built”, “reduced” or “led”. A term that only appears in a skills list is “mentioned”: true, but unsupported.
Requirements that ask for a number of years are checked against the date ranges in your resume, such as “2019 – 2023” or “Mar 2021 – Present”, with overlapping jobs counted once.
The evidence score gives full credit for proven requirements and half for mentioned ones. It is a way to compare drafts of your resume against one job, not a prediction of whether you’ll get an interview.
Both documents stay in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored or used for training.
Worked example
A data analyst resume against a senior data analyst job
- Requirement “Experience running A/B tests” → proven by “Ran 15 A/B tests on checkout pages, lifting conversion 3.2%”.
- Requirement “Experience with Python (pandas)” → only mentioned: Python and pandas appear in the skills list but in no bullet.
- Requirement “4+ years of experience in data analysis” → proven: the dated roles add up to about 7.8 years.
- Requirement “Background in e-commerce” → missing. The fix: describe the checkout work in e-commerce terms, if it is accurate.
Questions people ask
Is this the same as an ATS resume checker?
Not quite. Applicant tracking systems differ widely, and no outside tool can reproduce a specific employer’s ranking. This checker focuses on what both software and recruiters look for: whether each requirement is supported by a concrete example in your resume.
Should I copy the missing keywords into my resume?
Only if they are true. Adding skills you don’t have can get you an interview you then fail, and recruiters check. Where you do have the experience, write a bullet that shows it, with a result.
Why does a skill in my skills section only count as “mentioned”?
A list of tools shows you have heard of them, not what you did with them. Recruiters skim for evidence: what you built, improved or delivered using the skill. Moving a key skill into an achievement bullet usually helps more than repeating it.
Can I use this with a PDF or Word resume?
Copy the text out of the document and paste it in. If the pasted text comes out jumbled, that is worth fixing too, because some applicant tracking systems read files the same way.
Last reviewed October 2, 2026