# JD ↔ Resume Match > Match your resume to one job description: what you evidence, what is missing, and which gaps are wording, not skills. It matches meaning, not just keywords. Source: https://www.revquix.com/tools/jd-resume-match Cost: 3 credits a run, needs an account --- Paste a job description and see how your resume actually reads against it - the requirements you evidence, the ones you do not, and which of those is a wording problem rather than a skills problem. Matched by meaning against our own skill taxonomy, not by counting words. ## At a glance - You give: Your resume once, then one job description per run - You get: A 0–100 match, every gap labelled real or wording - Takes: About a minute, saved against that posting - Costs: 3 credits - and a new account starts with 20 ## How the match score is calculated The Revquix Match Score is arithmetic, not a judgement call. Six dimensions are scored 0–100, then weighted and summed: skill overlap 38%, must-have coverage 26%, experience and scope fit 12%, title and seniority fit 12%, domain and context fit 7%, keyword presence 5%. The report prints each sub-score, the weight applied, and the points it contributed - and those add up to the total in front of you. The posting's requirements are weighted by how hard it asks: a must-have counts for four times what a nice-to-have does, so a resume that misses the one mandatory requirement and holds nine optional ones does not score 90. Every real hiring filter is a few hard requirements plus a wish list, and a score that ignores that is comfortable and useless. Bands are fixed thresholds, and deliberately not the Readiness Score's: 0–39 low, 40–59 moderate, 60–74 strong, 75–100 excellent. A posting lists everything a team could conceivably want, so nobody matches a real one in the nineties - hiring happens in the sixties. A resume-quality scale would put almost every applicant in the bottom two bands. ## Real gaps versus wording gaps Every gap is labelled one of two ways, and they need opposite responses. A wording gap means your resume already has the skill and no bullet demonstrates it - usually it sits in a skills list with nothing behind it. That is a ten-minute fix and the commonest single improvement available on any application. A real gap means there is nothing on your resume for it, and nothing adjacent either. We will not help you close a real gap with phrasing. If a posting asks for Kubernetes and your resume has no container work at all, the tool says so and calls it something to learn. A claim you cannot defend is an interview you fail on the next question. The middle case is adjacency, and it is what a keyword matcher structurally cannot produce. If the posting wants gRPC and you evidence REST API design, we say so - adjacent, not equal. Producing that requires a curated taxonomy: string matching cannot tell a listed skill from a demonstrated one, because both contain the same word. ## Why people run this twenty times, not once A resume scorer is a tool you use once. Tailoring is per application - and a search is twenty to fifty of them. So this is built around the second run: you upload your resume once, and every new posting after that is one paste and one click. Each match is saved against its job description, so the dashboard becomes your tailoring log - one row per posting, the score movement across re-runs, and a status you set by hand. Re-running updates the same row and shows the difference. Nothing infers the status for you: tailoring a resume is not applying for a job. ## What this tool will not do It is not a company's ATS score. No applicant tracking system shows candidates a score, and nobody outside a company can see how its filters are configured. This is our own published comparison against one posting. It will not tell you to stuff keywords. Cramming a posting's phrases in to beat a parser produces a document that reads as spam to the human who opens it next, and that human decides. Where a term is genuinely missing we say so; the advice is about evidence, never repetition. It is not an application tracker either - no reminders, no due dates, no stages beyond the five statuses. It tailors; you apply. ## Questions people ask ### Is this an ATS score? Not a company's. No applicant tracking system shows candidates a score, and no third party can see how a given company has configured its filters. This is the Revquix Match Score for one posting: six weighted dimensions we compute ourselves, with the rubric published and versioned. For a general ATS score of your resume, the free ATS Resume Checker gives one. ### Does it match keywords or meaning? Meaning, mostly. The largest dimension - 38% - projects both your resume and the posting's requirements onto our own curated skill taxonomy using embeddings, which is how it can tell you that you evidence REST APIs where the posting wants gRPC. Literal keyword presence is in there too, but weighted at only 5%, because some screening genuinely is a text search and pretending otherwise would cost you interviews. ### Will it help me claim a skill I do not have? No. Every gap is labelled either a wording gap - you have it and your resume does not show it - or a real gap, where there is nothing on your resume for it and nothing adjacent. For a real gap the tool says plainly that it is something to learn and refuses to suggest a phrasing that implies otherwise. That is a hard product rule, not a setting: a claim you cannot defend is an interview you fail on the question after it. ### How many jobs should I tailor for? Every one you actually intend to send, which for most searches is twenty to fifty. That is why the tool is built around re-running: the resume is uploaded once and each new posting is one paste. A search usually settles into two or three matches per role - the first tells you the gaps, the second confirms the rewrite landed. ### Do you store the job descriptions I paste? The redacted text lives inside the saved report, which is retained for twelve months so your tailoring log survives the whole search. It is redacted before anything is stored or sent onward, and that includes the recruiter's contact details from the posting - we do not keep or surface third-party contact information. Your uploaded resume is deleted after 30 days. ### What happens if I run the same resume against the same job twice? It is free. An identical pair returns the stored report and holds no credits, so re-checking something you already ran never costs anything. Changing either side - a tailored resume, or a different posting - is a fresh charged run, because it is a different question.