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Check how well a resume fits a job

Read the Fit check on a tailored resume: what the posting asks for that your resume misses, and any claim that goes past your profile.

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A Fit check reads a tailored resume against the job description you are aiming at, and against your own profile. It answers two questions before a recruiter asks them. What does this posting want that my resume does not show? And does my resume claim more than I can back up?

How to get one

You do not run the Fit check by hand. It arrives with the tailored resume.

  1. Open a job on your Board that has the full job description saved.
  2. Click Customize resume. See Create and customize your resume for that step in full.
  3. Open the tailored resume from Resumes. The Fit check sits on the page.

The check needs the job description to compare against. A job with no description saved gives the AI nothing to measure, so paste the description in or capture it with the browser extension.

What the check tells you

  • Missing. Skills, tools, certifications, and requirements the posting asks for that your resume does not show. This is your pre-application to-do list.
  • Claims that go too far. Anything in the resume that your profile does not support. Scope that grew, a skill you never listed, a title that reads more senior than the job you held.
  • Notes on the writing. Comments on your summary, your skills list, and individual bullet points, each with a suggested fix and a severity of low, medium, or high.

How to act on it

  1. Read the missing list first. If you have the skill and the resume omits it, add it to your profile and tailor again.
  2. Fix every claim that goes too far. An interview is where an inflated line gets tested, and it is a bad place to find out.
  3. Work the high-severity notes. Leave the low ones unless you have time.
  4. Treat a long missing list as information, not a verdict. Two or three gaps are normal. Ten gaps usually means the role is a stretch, and your hours are better spent on a closer match.

Good to know

  • The check measures your resume against your profile, so a thin profile produces weak results. Fill in the profile first.
  • The Fit check is generated commentary about you, not data you gave us. It stays out of your data export for that reason. See Your data, your control.
  • The check runs as part of customizing a resume, which uses 1 AI run from your daily allowance. It does not cost a second run.