ATS Keywords & Resume Tailoring

Tailoring is the unglamorous work that decides whether a recruiter ever sees your resume. Applicant tracking systems don't judge quality — they parse your resume into a database record, and recruiters search that database with exact strings: title variants, tool names, certification codes. A resume that says “SIEM experience” never surfaces for a recruiter searching a specific platform name, no matter how good the experience behind it is.

That makes tailoring a matching problem you can work methodically: find the terms recruiters actually search for your role, check which of them your real experience supports, and carry those — in the posting's wording — in your headline, summary, skills block, and bullets. Never a term you couldn't defend in an interview: keyword stuffing fails the interview it wins.

This page collects everything on the site for that job: role-specific keyword banks built from our recruiter-sourcing research, sample resumes showing the pattern in practice, the formatting rules that keep a resume parseable, and free tools that measure your keyword coverage against a real posting. All of it works without an account, and your resume never leaves your browser in any of the tools.