The Job Match Score helps you understand how well your resume aligns with a specific job posting. The score is generated by analyzing your resume against the job description, job title, and company name you’ve saved in Huntr. A higher score means your resume is a stronger match, which increases your chances of being noticed by recruiters and hiring managers.
Unlike our original version that focused mainly on keywords, the new Job Match Score uses a weighted system powered by large language models. It evaluates four key elements from the job posting:
Qualifications: The required skills and experience for the role.
Responsibilities: The primary and secondary duties of the job.
Keywords: Important terms, technologies, and soft skills mentioned in the posting.
Job Title Match: The essence of the role (e.g., “Product Design Lead” from “Product Placement Design Lead for the Marketing Team”).
Weighting & Importance
Not all items are equal. Our system assigns importance levels “Must-Have” vs. “Nice-to-Have” and scores accordingly:
Qualifications: Make up the largest share of your score (roughly one-third to one-half). Must-Have qualifications are weighted most heavily.
Responsibilities: Core responsibilities carry more weight than secondary ones.
Keywords: Usually account for less than 20% of the final score. Must-Have keywords (e.g., required technologies) count more than Nice-to-Haves (e.g., many soft skills). This prevents “keyword stuffing.” Even if you match every keyword, your score will remain low without the right qualifications or responsibilities.
Score Categories
Instead of only a 0–100 numeric scale, scores now appear in five categories:
Poor
Weak
Fair
Good
Great
A Good or Great score means your resume is highly competitive for the role. Fair suggests you’re about average among applicants. Weak or Poor may indicate either a low fit for the role or that your resume needs more tailoring.
Improving Your Score
The Job Match Score is interactive—you can see exactly what’s covered by your resume and what’s missing.
Identify Missing Items: The dashboard highlights which qualifications, responsibilities, and keywords are Covered and Not Covered. Focus on adding items that genuinely reflect your experience.
AI Assistance: Click the + icon next to a Not Covered item to either manually add details or generate a draft with AI. For example, you can select a past job and ask AI to write a tailored achievement bullet point.
Explanations: Click the info icon to see why an item is or isn’t covered. Explanations point to the specific parts of your resume that demonstrate coverage, helping you understand the logic behind your score.
Semantic Matching: Our system goes beyond keywords. It recognizes context (e.g., “storytelling” may be covered if your resume describes presenting narratives to stakeholders, even if the word itself isn’t present).
Faster Tailoring with AI Tailor
If you want a head start, the AI Tailor feature can automatically generate a tailored version of your resume for a job description in just a few minutes. It provides suggested edits for your summary, skills, and experiences, which you can review and refine before finalizing.