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Overview

Jobscan has a rating of 3.5 stars from 1,688 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Jobscan most frequently mention great tool, cover letter, and free trial. Jobscan ranks 13th among Resume sites.

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 46.6%
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What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • Helps job seekers tailor resume, cover letter, and applications to improve interview selection.

Critical highlights

  • The upload and job description links go in a feedback loop with no end and no outcome.
How would you rate Jobscan?
Business's Favorite Review

“Cool tool”

Mark P.
11/13/20

It was eye opening to look at job descriptions more strategically. I ended up getting a job outside of the traditional application process, but I'm confident that I would have made some good traction using Jobscan.

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Top Positive Review

“Simply great!”

Rashad I.
12/6/20

Useful insights, advises and resume feedback. It helped me to get a job! Very easy to use and very clear outcomes - highly recommended for anyone who is job hunting. I regret I didn't know about this great tool earlier.

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Thumbnail of user angelinaa95
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 30th, 2024

UPDATE - I realized I made a mistake when I originally uploaded my resume. I didn't include a job description, I uploaded a link only and it gave me a false low score. I didn't realize I changed it when I signed up. The tool is helpful in pointing out how to tweak your resume. Before I started I was a 60-70% match and after I was a 90%+ match with a few short tweaks. If you use it right, it will save you a lot of time.

Products used:
Resume Scanner + Cover Letter Scanner

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Thumbnail of user raymondk434
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 20th, 2024
Verified purchase

It's nice to be able to scan and edit your resume to fit the job description for ATS...however, the resume scan doesn't always get your whole resume, and when you go to click on power edit it's a crap shoot on whether it makes it to edit or not. Also, doesn't make any sense to edit your resume in power edit because the format gets all wrecked if you try to download an use.

Thumbnail of user amanic4
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 7th, 2024
Verified purchase

The product is a little bit buggy - When you report certain skills they don't drop off your scan. Not every thing it lists as missing is relevant. You have to go through it one by one and compare it to the job description to be able to make a decision:
1. Report the skill
2. Update your resume
3. Ignore

I will not renew but it is good to get you started.

Thumbnail of user mattg659
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 10th, 2023
Verified purchase

Recently subscribed to service and am very pleased. This is exactly what artificial intelligence should do. Thousands of comparisons of words and objective scoring to tell you how to improve.

The cover letter writer has been giving me nearly perfect suggestions that require almost no edit before submitting. I simply make them a little shorter and copy, paste, and submit!

Thumbnail of user barbarac3465
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 9th, 2024
Verified purchase

I like the app and I'm using it a lot. The power edit needs to be refined. I didn't like what it kicked back.
Also when I first signed up for jobscan, there was a tutorial on all the different features, I can't find that tutorial anymore. Could you resend that to me?
I've recommended jobscan to the career resource center and many other unemployed people. Too bad you don't have a referral program.

Thumbnail of user nickb1217
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 7th, 2023
Verified purchase

Looking for work is and can be painful. Using Jobscan may take some effort but really helps keep hope alive during this transition time.
One thing I wish they would do is scan through all resumes already scanned and choose the one with the best preliminary score for each new job description uploaded. This would save me a ton of time and rework.

Thumbnail of user odairf
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 4th, 2024

I subscribed to Jobscan 4 days ago and the system is not working properly on my side. I sent several emails requesting support, and their solutions did not work. The support team no longer sends emails, and I cannot communicate with Jobscan.

Problem - No matter which resumes I request in the ATS scan, Jobscan always refers the analysis of an old resume already deleted from the system.

Tip for consumers:
The ATS system looks great, but the support is terrible.

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Thumbnail of user jeffs3144
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 20th, 2024
Verified purchase

Some good analytic features but those are blocked by POOR User Interface. Power Edit and Resume Builder good ideas and direction but UI and underlying business logic obviously missing in action- jobs can will need to adjust price for me to stay subscribed

* Jobscan attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

Thumbnail of user djafarikilongoj
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 12th, 2024

Kindly Rewrite my CV according to ATS standard because I'm targeting to apply for Operations Officer position.

Tip for consumers:
No

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Jacket

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Thumbnail of user nuri906
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 14th, 2023

Jobscan provides helpful, detailed insights, which is critical for your resume and cover letter to be ATS optimised. It was easy to use, and I greatly improved my CV and cover letter according to its recommendations. It gives you a multifaceted view beyond just the wording or phrases check, so I still had a lot of flexibility to adjust my documents to fit my voice.

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Thumbnail of user clintonr91
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 21st, 2024
Verified purchase

It's a clunky first shot at doing something to help job seekers. There is so much automation it could do to make job seeking much easier. Hopefully it will head that way and make the tool worth the price.

* Jobscan attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

Thumbnail of user colet92
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 7th, 2024
Verified purchase

Until ATS can be enhanced with semantic modeling, we are at the mercy of making sure we "strategy initiatives" on one resume and "strategic initatives" on another. Jobscan does a great job of pointing out the keywords for hard and soft skills in the job posting, and where you might have skill gaps.

Thumbnail of user hollish33
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 9th, 2024
Verified purchase

I tried jobscan for a number of job postings where the company hiring didn't use larger ATS systems and was consistently given a list of things that weren't keywords (for example, if the ad said something like the job requires the ability to sit, stand, and occasional lifting of 25 lbs, "lifting" came back as a keyword on more than one occasion). It also doesn't recognize plurals or different verb tenses as the same "keyword" when it should. I tried to make this work but left disappointed. I'd do better on my own generating my own list of "keywords" from a listing and editing my resume accordingly. If you work in tech, it might be useful. For the rest of us, it's a waste.

* Jobscan attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

Thumbnail of user patw604
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 6th, 2023
Verified purchase

Easy to use and can be helpful in content. It is frustrating that it just seems dumb.
"Project planning" vs "Project plans", vs "Planning projects" are not picked up as a match.
"Plans" vs "plan" would not be picked up as a match.
There really is no excuse for not building this in.
I've done a number of resumes reaching over 85% match and no response from companies, so I feel like it's not hitting the mark, but difficult to know why.

* Jobscan attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

Thumbnail of user kaseyf33
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 6th, 2023
Verified purchase

This tool is useful, but there are some issues that are difficult to deal with. For the cost, it seems silly that the scanning tool cannot differentiate tenses. I will have the word "growth" or "grew" within the resume and it will not consider it a match unless the word "grow" is there. Also, the idea that one should have the exact job title as is used on the job description doesn't make much sense and that is also counted as points against an effective resume.

* Jobscan attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

Thumbnail of user mariem1463
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 6th, 2024
Verified purchase

I like the keywords it catches but a lot of improvements can be made, here's SOME problem areas:

1.) I have to import and format each resume. This alone takes a long time.
2.) Once a keyword is used, it doesn't offer suggestions anymore.
3.) Generator for adding keywords/phrases doesn't offer additional options, specifically helping to use in context of your specific experience.
4.) It would be nice to see how certain things are valued/weighed in regards to the score.
5.) Templates should be more customizable. For instance, I want my skills listed at the top, and not as a string with commas.
6.) I don't like that keywords are pulled initially from the resume uploaded that don't make sense, and it's time-consuming to have to delete each one.

* Jobscan attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

Thumbnail of user jaumea1
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 24th, 2024
Verified purchase

From 0 to 10 in minutes I could beat the bloody robotic system for recruiting or at least optimise my chances! Thanks a million

Thumbnail of user lindal4040
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 6th, 2024
Verified purchase

Had asked for the search function for previously-applied job, but received no solution from Support after nearly 2 years. Disappointing.

We should be able to download the entire Scan History in order to assess comb data & gauge our job search progress.

Thumbnail of user lukestatz
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 18th, 2024

It does everything pretty well and is easy to use, but MY GOD - WHY IS THERE NO SPELL CHECK? I had an opportunity to get my resume in though a managing director of one of my top target companies, and realized there was a misspelled word. With all of the words that are highlighted, it makes it so difficult to catch.

Tip for consumers:
Add a spell check, or the love of God.

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Thumbnail of user aliciar505
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 7th, 2023
Verified purchase

This product is amazing and the price is really worth it. This tool helps get your resume ready for the ATS scans and has so many other features. One feature I wish it had was when you obtain another interview it didn't overwrite the initial interview details. Otherwise I have recommend this product to many fellow friends who are looking and others who have never heard of the product. Game changer!

Thumbnail of user sherriw283
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 8th, 2023
Verified purchase

Jobscan has (at least) two tools that strengthen my applications: The Scan tool compares your application materials (resume, cover letter) to the job posting and returns a score that measures how well your application matches the posting. It then identifies the words and phrases that you can add to improve that score. Power Edit is similar but let's you edit your resume within the app and shows the change in you match score with each edit you make. I've had resumes that start at 38% and improve to 84%!

Using Jobscan, I feel more confident that my applications will pass the ATS and be seen by real humans who will hopefully set up an interview.

Thumbnail of user guha.tania
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 29th, 2024

1. It is helpful in tailoring the resume following job description.
2. The AI generated suggestions are very helpful in providing weightage to the resume

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Thumbnail of user vasus8
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 7th, 2024
Verified purchase

Hard to follow the instructions for a better cover letter

Thumbnail of user mylesc58
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 8th, 2023
Verified purchase

Jobscan provides a good service for recent graduates like myself who are applying for a lot of role but no one is getting back to us. It helps me tailor my resume to pas the ATS system

Thumbnail of user anthonyn923
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 7th, 2023
Verified purchase

I started a 3 month subscription to trial Job Scan and to see if it made any difference in terms of key words etc. I have used the service a number of times and my CV has got to the bench mark % and I have submitted the CV. At this stage I have not had a noticeable up tick in response and therefore will be reviewing whether it is worth continuing with the product

* Jobscan attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

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From the business

Applicant tracking systems may be all that is standing in the way between you and a job interview. To get past these pesky ATS, your resume needs relevant skills and keywords from each description. That's where Jobscan comes in.

Jobscan scores your resume against any job description and reveals the keywords you should include. It’s an essential free-to-try tool to increase your interview chances in today’s job market.

Visit us at jobscan.co or check out our blog for resources and guides at jobscan.co/blog

Business Highlights

  • Resume Scan Tool
  • LinkedIn Optimization Tool
  • Free Resume Builder

Business History

Jobscan came about when founder James Hu was job seeking. He found the resume tailoring and keyword identification process too manual. After learning more about how an ATS works, he launched Jobscan in February 2014. Jobscan is a profitable and growing software company based in Seattle, Washington with a vision to build enterprise-grade tools for job seekers.

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James H.
Founder & CEO
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