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keyword finder.

Paste a posting. See what it demands, what it only prefers and which of its terms your CV never mentions. It all runs in this tab: nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to make.

The reading happens in your browser. What you paste never leaves this page.

Paste a posting above and the reading appears here.

What to do with the output

Four moves, in this order.

  1. Answer the demanded list first

    Every line in the first column needs something in your top third that answers it: the proof, and the word with it. A line you have nothing for is your real gap.

  2. Use the preferred list only where it is true

    This is the column that talks good candidates out of applying. Nothing in it is a gate. If one of them is true of you, give it a line; if not, apply anyway.

  3. Read the unstated bullets as interview questions

    A bullet marked neither way is something the team does and has not ranked. Ask about it on the call, and give it a sentence in the CV if you have one.

  4. Take their word for your work

    If they say streaming ingestion and you built an event pipeline, use their words for the same true thing. If their word would overstate what you did, keep yours.

After the keywords

We write the CV the keywords ask for.

The finder shows what a posting asks for. CV Rocket writes the CV that answers it, for that one posting, and applies with it.

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT

  • Every demanded line answered in the top third
  • The posting's words wherever they are true of you
  • Only numbers your profile holds
  • 25 hiring-side readers, round after round
  • Applied on the employer's own form
Get me interviews

Free account, no card. From $25 per CV, paid once.

One position in CV Rocket: the CV written for the posting, its review, and the application submitted on the employer's form.

How it reads

Three rules the finder runs on.

  • No invented score

    A match percentage against a job description measures nothing a recruiter uses. The finder gives you the posting's own demands, preferences and words instead.

  • The employer's own words

    Every demand, every preference and every term comes straight from the posting, the same text the recruiter wrote and searches with.

  • The terms it knows

    130 terms tech postings use for tools, scope and seniority, aliases folded together. The requirement list catches everything else the posting says.

Questions

About the keyword finder.

Get me interviews
How do I find the keywords in a job description?

Read it twice and separate what it demands from what it would like. That is most of the work, and it is what the tool above does for you. Then check each surviving term against something you actually did. A term with no proof under it is a claim, and claims get asked about.

Do you store what I paste?

No. The reading is JavaScript running in your tab, and the text never leaves the page. There is nothing to delete afterwards.

Do I have to sign up?

No. No account, no email address, no watermark on the output and no limit on how many postings you read.

Does this check my CV against an ATS?

It checks your CV against the posting's own words, the words a recruiter's search runs on. For the full check, one of CV Rocket's 25 readers is an ATS screener that reads every CV the way the employer's software does.

Why does it say some bullets are not stated either way?

Because the posting did not say. A bullet with no cue word, under no heading, is marked neither as a demand nor as a preference, and treating it as a demand is how a tool talks someone out of a job they would have got.

Can it read a PDF or a link?

Paste the text. It stays in this tab, and nothing is uploaded anywhere.

How many of the missing terms should I add?

Only the ones you can back in one sentence under questioning. Eight terms you can back beat thirty that fall apart on the screening call.

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What to do with a posting next.

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Tailor a resume to a job description

The method, with one bullet worked before and after.

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Resume writing service

A new CV for every job, read by 25 hiring-side readers.

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AI job search

From the whole market to the interview in your calendar.

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Keywords found.
Now get the call.

Sign up free, drop your CV and say which jobs you want. Each one gets a CV written for its posting, and we apply with it.

Get me interviews

Free account, no card. From $25 per CV, paid once, no subscription.