Tailor your résumé to any job description. Honestly.

Before writing a word, Applause reads the job description the way a recruiter searching their ATS would. It pulls out three kinds of terms, in the posting’s own words.

• Must-havesThe requirements they will screen on. “5+ years in product”, “payments experience”.
• ToolsThe software and methods they name. SQL, Looker, A/B testing.
• Domain termsThe words of their world. Fintech, merchant onboarding, payouts.

Want to see this on a posting right now? The résumé keyword finder does exactly this step, free.

Tailoring takes time, even with help. So Applause shows your fit before it writes anything: a match score, the must-haves you meet, your gaps, and the years you have against the years they ask for. You see it in Discover, on the job and in the Chrome side panel, right on the posting.

A strong fit? Write the application. A long shot? Skip it, or tell Clappy, the assistant in the side panel, about experience your profile is missing. Every real answer joins your profile and can lift your match.

Most AI résumé tools will happily write that you led a team of 25. Applause writes only from your profile: your résumé, your LinkedIn export and anything you’ve added since. It puts the posting’s words where your experience backs them up, builds a Core Skills block from the posting’s own phrases, and matches your headline to the role without ever going above your real level.

After the draft is written, a second pass reads every line back against your profile and marks it.

• Covered“Cut merchant onboarding from 9 days to 2” Straight from your profile.
• Stretch“Owned the company’s pricing strategy” Your profile says you contributed to it.
• Not in your profile“Managed a team of 25” Your profile says 14.

Fix a flag in the next version, or confirm it’s true and add it to your profile. When every line checks out, you’ll see it in green before you send.

Here’s a real kind of edit. The posting asks for payments, product strategy, a roadmap and A/B testing. The profile has all four. The old bullet just didn’t say so.

Nothing new was claimed. The numbers were already in the profile. They just moved to where a recruiter, and a keyword filter, will find them.

Every tailored résumé gets a 0 to 100 ATS score. It’s our estimate of what keyword-ranking systems have in common, not a promise about any one vendor. Each part comes with the edit that would raise it.

• The posting’s words40 points. Must-haves count double. Said in other words gets half.
• Placement15 points. In Core Skills and proven in a bullet.
• Job title15 points. Your headline against their title.
• Years10 points. Stated plainly, the way they ask.
• Structure20 points. One column, standard headings, real text.
• StuffingPoints off. More than three repeats, or Core Skills over 14.

That last one matters. Stuffing keywords lowers the score, so a résumé tailored with Applause never reads like a list. One tap asks the next version to fix what the score found.

One posting, one click, one kit. The résumé, a cover letter that opens with why this role, and answers to the screening questions captured from the posting or the side panel. All three come from the same profile and go through the same claim check, so your story holds together.

Download a PDF or a Word file. Both are ATS-safe: one column, standard headings, real text a parser can read. Files are named First-Last-Resume-Company, the way recruiters expect. Then track the application from Saved to Hired in the job application tracker.