What you get for each job
- A match score with a short summary of where you’re strong and where you’re not.
- Matched skills, marked as exact, partial, or inferred from your experience.
- Skill gaps, ranked required, preferred or nice-to-have, with a note on how to address each.
- The posting’s requirements, pulled out and grouped so you can see what it really asks for.
- Relevant experience: the bullets from your history that best answer those requirements.
- Tailoring suggestions: rewrites of those bullets with the keywords they add.
Tailoring by hand vs. with Refacet
Tailoring by hand means opening the posting next to your resume, highlighting requirements, hunting for the bullet that proves each one, and rewording it — then doing it again for the next application, starting from a copy of a copy. It’s the part of job hunting most people skip, and it’s the part that gets interviews.
Refacet keeps one complete profile and builds each tailored resume from it. The matching, the gap list and the first draft of the rewrites take a minute; you spend your time deciding, not searching.
Tips for a better match
- Put more in your profile than fits on one page. Side projects, older roles, tools you used once — the matcher can only pick what it can see.
- Write bullets with outcomes. “Cut build time from 20 to 6 minutes” gives the rewrite something to work with; “responsible for builds” doesn’t.
- Paste the whole posting, including “nice to have” and the about-the-team section. They often hold the keywords that separate candidates.
- Treat gaps as a to-do list. If a required skill is missing but you have it, add it to your profile with the experience that shows it, and run the match again.