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Nikhil Thadani
Nikhil Thadani

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I Built a Resume Scorer That Actually Uses Job Descriptions

Most resume tools just scan formatting.

That’s useless.

Recruiters care about one thing:
🤔 Does this resume match the job?

So I built a tool that:

takes a job description
scores resumes against it
checks ATS compatibility
highlights missing skills
Tech Approach
JD parsing
keyword extraction
weighted scoring
structured breakdown
Why?????

Because hiring teams waste hours on early screening.

Try it

https://zavnia.com/free-resume-scorer

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One detail that would make the scoring more trustworthy is to keep "missing skill" separate from "no evidence found." A resume may describe the same experience in different language, while a true gap means the candidate cannot point to any project or work example.

Showing the matched resume sentence beside each score would let a recruiter audit the result, and it would stop candidates from treating every missing keyword as permission to add a skill they cannot defend.