Job description keyword finder
Find recognized terms and read their source quotes, with conservative hints about required, preferred and unclear wording. The keyword scan runs in your browser. Check the complete posting before deciding what belongs in your resume.
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The keyword scan runs in your browser. Keep the complete qualification context; up to 30,000 characters.
How it works
Paste the posting
Paste the posting, including qualification context. The keyword scan runs in your browser; the supported limit is 30,000 characters.
Read the source quotes
Review required, preferred, unspecified and other-context groups. A recognized term is not proof that you qualify.
Tailor to match
Carry the posting into Apply Leaf and rewrite your resume around the skills you actually have.
No score. No black box.
This scan recognizes a curated set of terms and can miss important requirements. Alternate names may be grouped under a canonical term; read the quoted source. Unclear wording stays unspecified, and title, background and simple not-required mentions remain visible as context. No result predicts an ATS decision or verifies your qualifications.
Questions
- Is the keyword finder free?
- Yes — completely free, no account, and no usage limit. Paste as many postings as you want.
- Does my job description get uploaded anywhere?
- The keyword scan is computed in your browser. If you continue into tailoring, the posting is carried into that workflow and sent for analysis when you request it.
- How do you group the terms?
- Explicit wording and eligible list headings can suggest required or preferred priority. Unclear or mixed wording stays unspecified. Recognized title, company, benefits and application mentions, and simple explicit not-required statements, stay visible as other context. Open the source quotes and confirm the employer's expectations. These rules can miss or misread context and do not reveal screening rules.
- What counts as a keyword?
- The tool recognizes a curated set of skill, tool and credential terms, such as Python, AWS and Six Sigma. It can miss terms outside that set and cannot tell you which filters an employer uses. Read the whole posting as well as these results.
- Should I just stuff these keywords into my resume?
- Add only skills you actually have, where your experience supports them. Tailoring suggestions can be wrong; compare each change with your original before keeping it.
Keywords are step one.
Compare the posting with your actual resume, review proposed changes and keep only wording you can substantiate.