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Find the keywords in a job description

Recruiters search their applicant tracking system for the words the posting uses. Paste the posting: you get the skills it names, the terms it repeats and a skills line in its own words, ready for your resume. Nothing is uploaded.

Private The text is read inside your browser and never sent anywhere. What you type is kept only in this browser so the page remembers it; “Clear” erases it.

Keywords

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Paste a job description to see the keywords it stresses.

How the keywords are found

Skills. The text is searched for the 112 skills this site tracks in job postings: languages, frameworks, cloud platforms and tools, including their usual spellings (“Postgres” is PostgreSQL).

Repeated terms. Words and two-word phrases the posting uses at least twice, once the words every posting uses (“team”, “experience”, “requirements”) are left out. The more often a term is repeated, the higher it is listed.

The skills line joins the skills found, in the posting’s order. Copy only the ones you really have.

Questions about the job description keyword finder

What are ATS keywords?

The words a recruiter types when searching applications in an applicant tracking system: usually the skills, tools and job title the posting names. A resume that uses the same words is found more often.

Should I copy every keyword into my resume?

No: only the ones that are true for you. Where you have a skill, use the posting’s exact word, in the skills line and in the job where you used it.

Is the job description uploaded anywhere?

No. It is read inside your browser and kept only in this browser’s storage so the page remembers it; the Clear button erases it.

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