Jobscan at a glance

Starting price: $49.95/mo (Pro Monthly)
Free plan: Yes
Platforms: Web, Chrome extension

What is Jobscan?

Jobscan is the best-known ATS optimisation tool, founded in Seattle in 2014, and its depth of keyword and skills-gap analysis against a specific posting is widely regarded as the category benchmark. You paste a resume and a job description, and it returns a match rate with the terms you are missing, plus LinkedIn profile optimisation, a resume builder and application tracking on paid plans.

The constraint is volume against price. The free plan allows five scans a month, which fills up in the first week of an active search, and Premium is reported around $49.95 monthly or roughly $29.98 when billed quarterly. That makes it excellent value if you tailor more than five applications monthly and use the full suite, and poor value for occasional use. Several competitors now offer far more generous free scanning, so compare before subscribing.

Key Features

ATS Match Rate ScoreKeyword Gap AnalysisLinkedIn Profile OptimizerCover Letter ScannerJob Application TrackerHard and Soft Skill AnalysisRecruiter Search OptimizationResume Formatting CheckerJob Title MatchingContact Info ValidationEducation Section AnalysisAction Verb SuggestionsJob Board IntegrationChrome ExtensionB2B Career Support Tools

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How to Use Jobscan

1Upload your resume or paste your resume text into the Jobscan scanner

2Paste the job description of the role you are targeting

3Receive your ATS match rate score and a prioritized list of missing keywords and skills

4Apply the recommended changes to your resume directly in the Jobscan editor

5Rerun the scan to confirm your score has improved before submitting your application

Who is Jobscan for?

✅ Best For

Mid-career and senior professionals targeting competitive corporate or technology roles who want to understand the exact gap between their resume and an employer's ATS filters before applying.

❌ Not For

Users who want a full resume builder with design templates, since Jobscan focuses on optimization and analysis rather than building or formatting a resume from scratch.

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Pricing

Is Jobscan free? Yes, there is a free plan. Paid plans start at $49.95/mo (Pro Monthly).

Free$0

✓Limited scans per month
✓basic match report

Pro Monthly$49.95/mo

✓Unlimited scans
✓LinkedIn optimizer
✓cover letter scanner
✓job tracker

Pro Quarterly$89.95/3mo

✓Full access at a reduced monthly rate

Prompts to Try

Scan my resume against this software developer job description at Infosys

What keywords am I missing for a product manager role at a mid-stage startup

How can I optimize my LinkedIn headline for recruiter search in the data science field

Use Cases

Ankur, a senior software engineer, scans his resume against a Google job description and discovers his match score is only 48 percent due to 11 missing hard skills, he updates his resume and rescans to reach 81 percent before applying.

A career coach uses Jobscan in client sessions to show in real time exactly why a client's resume has been rejected 20 times, creating an immediate action plan from the keyword gap report.

Preethi, switching from manual QA to automation testing, uses Jobscan's keyword analysis to learn which specific testing frameworks she needs to add to her resume to compete for SDET roles.

A job seeker applying to FAANG companies uses Jobscan to optimize each of 10 resume variants for 10 different job descriptions, treating it like an A/B testing tool for her job applications.

An MBA student at a top business school uses Jobscan's LinkedIn optimizer to boost his profile's appearance in recruiter searches, increasing InMail inquiries by 3x in one month.