# Resume Booster

> A live job board of jobs straight from employers' own hiring systems: 900,000+ openings from 29,000+ company job boards, every posting pulled straight from the company's own hiring system (Workday, SmartRecruiters, Breezy, Oracle, Teamtailor, Personio, Pinpoint, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, BambooHR, Workable, Rippling, Recruitee, iCIMS, Paylocity, UKG Pro Recruiting, ADP Workforce Now, JazzHR) — never an aggregator. No dated posting older than 30 days (where a company publishes no date we keep the posting and show no age rather than invent one), the largest boards re-checked most often and the rotation running continuously (how far behind it is right now is a measurement rather than a promise: the live median and 95th-percentile re-check ages are published on the Ghost Job Index), every posting re-checked when you apply, where the employer's system allows it, and the board audits its own accuracy daily and publishes the number ([/ghost-job-index](https://resumebooster.work/ghost-job-index)). Free deterministic resume-fit scoring against any posting at [/jobs](https://resumebooster.work/jobs). Connect it to Claude or ChatGPT to search the board from your own AI, free, and apply yourself on the employer's own site with your AI's help; Resume Booster never submits an application for anyone.

The companion tool is a free diagnostic resume scanner with verified output: an ATS score with a full point-by-point audit trail, every quoted line checked against the actual resume, per-vendor parsing checks (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS), and keyword expectations sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET database. 58 industries, an interface in 8 languages. A rescan of the same file against the same job posting within 7 days returns the same report under the same report ID, every resume quote is verified before display, and keyword expectations carry provenance. Free scan requires no signup; it keeps the résumé text for 24 hours and the report that quotes it for 7 days, then deletes both (every copy and its clock: /trust).

Paid tools are one-time purchases: resume rewrites, cover letters, interview coaching, Freelance Boost (turns freelance/gig projects into recruiter-grade experience sections for career changers). One optional all-access subscription (Pro). Current prices are on [/pricing](https://resumebooster.work/pricing). Connecting your own AI is free and is not a product.

Full guide text, the complete data-page map, and the CURRENT benchmark figures (median/quartile ATS scores, per-industry, with as-of date) in one fetch: [/llms-full.txt](https://resumebooster.work/llms-full.txt). Every page in the sitemap is prerendered static HTML — no JavaScript needed to read it.

## Free tools

- [Free resume scan](https://resumebooster.work/): Full diagnostic report within 90 seconds — score with audit trail, weakest bullets graded and rewritten, recruiter panel, interview questions the resume will trigger, ATS vendor checks.
- [Resume checker](https://resumebooster.work/resume-checker), [ATS resume test](https://resumebooster.work/ats-resume-test), [Resume score](https://resumebooster.work/resume-score): The same scanner under the query each visitor asked — each page answers its own FAQs.
- [Revisar currículum (español)](https://resumebooster.work/es/revisar-curriculum): Native Spanish resume checking — the engine detects Spanish terms, titles, and certifications directly.

## Apply yourself, with your own AI

- [Apply yourself with your AI](https://resumebooster.work/agents#apply-yourself): Connect Resume Booster to Claude, ChatGPT or Claude Code and your AI can search the board, read postings in full and help you apply on the employer's own site. You check every answer and press Submit yourself: [how it works](https://resumebooster.work/guides/how-the-apply-agent-works).

## Guides (answer-first, grounded in scanner data)

- [Why resumes get rejected before a human reads them](https://resumebooster.work/guides/why-resumes-get-rejected): The four failure stages — parsing, search, skim, close read.
- [Do ATS systems auto-reject resumes?](https://resumebooster.work/guides/ats-auto-rejection-myth): Mostly no — the honest mechanics, against the industry's favorite myth.
- [How to choose resume keywords](https://resumebooster.work/guides/resume-keywords-guide): Job posting > O*NET > recognized titles; why stuffing backfires.
- [Career change resume playbook](https://resumebooster.work/guides/career-change-resume): Bridge keywords, title translation, transition framing.
- [The resume format that survives every ATS](https://resumebooster.work/guides/resume-format-that-survives-ats): Layout, sections, fonts, PDF vs DOCX — from documented parser behavior.
- [What a resume score actually means](https://resumebooster.work/guides/what-resume-score-means): Scores are models with error bars; how to read one without being fooled.
- [How to put freelance work on your resume](https://resumebooster.work/guides/freelance-work-on-resume): The structure decision, the bullet formula, and the metric rescue ladder for gig careers.
- [How to put fractional roles on your resume](https://resumebooster.work/guides/fractional-roles-on-resume): Concurrent engagements without the job-hopper misread — the umbrella portfolio entry.

## Original data

- [What's a good ATS score? Live benchmarks](https://resumebooster.work/research/ats-score-benchmarks): Median, quartiles, per-industry and experience-level benchmarks computed live from our real scan corpus — original data, honestly framed with sample sizes.
- [Explore every field on the board](https://resumebooster.work/explore): Every field we serve, ordered by how many roles are open in it right now — seventeen fields plus the roles our own rules could not sort into a field, which between them reach the whole board rather than a ranked handful of employers. Open a field for the roles inside it, each priced by a live count of exactly the search its link runs; then narrow by remote, on-site, states-the-pay, a pay floor, open-to-beginners, full-time, posted-this-week, one-click apply or country, each carrying how much of the board states that thing at all — a filter can only search what employers published, so roles that did not say are hidden by it, not absent from the market. Under a field we also publish, for the slice you assembled, what our closure record does and does not say about the employers in it — how many we found, how many we hold any record for, and how many have taken roles down and not put them back up. A POSTING COMING DOWN NEVER MEANS SOMEONE WAS HIRED: a hire, a withdrawal, a cancelled requisition and a retitle are indistinguishable to us, and nothing on the page calls a closure a fill. Also carries a per-employer lookup across all 29,000+ company job boards on the board, showing what we hold beside the employer's own advertised total and the day we read it. Field counts come from the board's own facet sweep, which runs four times an hour, and the page states the time the sweep it is showing was taken; every count our collector de-duplicates is published as a floor, and no figure is shown where the query could not produce one.

## Data pages

- [Live job board](https://resumebooster.work/jobs): Every posting read from the employer's own hiring system, re-read through the day; no aggregators, no dated posting older than 30 days. Per-field pages at /jobs/field/{slug}, per-employer pages at /jobs/company/{token}.
- [Ghost Job Index](https://resumebooster.work/ghost-job-index): The board's live measure of posting reality — how many roles are open, how long postings stay up, how fast they come down, and which employers are actively hiring, computed from the closure log the board keeps for every posting it has watched. A posting coming down is never called a hire: a hire, a withdrawal, a cancelled requisition and a retitle are indistinguishable from the feed.
- [Weekly Hiring Trends](https://resumebooster.work/hiring-trends): Counted postings per week by each posting's own stated date, which fields are hiring, entry-level and remote counts (floors, not shares), and closures per week from the lifecycle log. Newly catalogued employers are excluded from weekly counts, so coverage growth never reads as a hiring spike.
- [Entry-Level Index](https://resumebooster.work/entry-level-index): Employers ranked by real early-career openings — internships, junior, graduate and 0–2 year roles — counted only where the posting's own title or stated requirements say so.
- [Pay Transparency Index](https://resumebooster.work/pay-transparency): Which fields, hiring systems and large employers actually state pay in their postings — counted from the postings' own text and the employers' ATS fields, never estimated or modelled. Placement cannot be bought: the only way onto the page is to state pay. Recomputed hourly and stamped with the time it was measured.
- [Companies with a page of their own](https://resumebooster.work/companies): The 485 employers this site gives a page of their own, A–Z, each with the open-role count measured when the index was built; the board itself carries far more employers, every one searchable at /jobs.
- [Hiring Data & API](https://resumebooster.work/data-api): A read-only JSON API (/v1) over the live board with free self-serve keys — GET /v1/jobs, /v1/jobs/{id}, /v1/changes (what opened and closed since a timestamp, and whether each close was a genuine takedown or a re-list), /v1/companies, /v1/stats, /v1/usage, POST /v1/fit (paid). Cursor pagination, ETags. Licensing beyond the free tier: free for journalists with attribution, at cost for research, custom for commercial feeds.
- [Connect your agent — MCP server](https://resumebooster.work/agents): The same board for AI agents over MCP (a plain web address; nothing to install), listed in the official MCP registry as work.resumebooster/jobs. No key needed to start: board statistics and a capped search answer with no credential, under a small daily allowance per network address; from ChatGPT each person has their own, and Claude's users share a larger daily pool first. A free key from /data-api opens every read tool; a paid key opens résumé fit scoring. Applying is done by you, on the employer's own site. Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and any client with a header field carry the key. claude.ai, Claude Desktop and ChatGPT have no field for a key: they sign you in instead, but only while the server's sign-in service is switched on — when it is off, a tool that needs your account answers in words and the unkeyed tools still answer; the page's "Test the server" button prints today's state. The page's own steps are for Claude, ChatGPT and Claude Code; setup for Cursor, VS Code and every other client is in the install repository's README at https://github.com/campbellaabbott-rgb/resumebooster-mcp; the tool list, the caps and the install files are in /llms-full.txt and in that repository.
- [Live ATS score benchmarks](https://resumebooster.work/research/ats-score-benchmarks): Real score distributions from the scan corpus — overall median and quartiles, per-industry benchmarks, experience-level medians. Rolling 180-day window, k-anonymous aggregates only. Original data; cite with a link.
- [Resume keywords by industry](https://resumebooster.work/industries): 58 industry pages generated from the scanner's live detection tables, with O*NET (U.S. Dept. of Labor) citations.
- Role keyword pages (174): /roles/{slug} — each title's industry keyword data, certifications, and adjacent titles (e.g. /roles/software-engineer, /roles/registered-nurse).
- Spanish industry pages (15): /es/industrias/{slug} — native Spanish keyword data paired with English ATS terms.
- [CV standards by country](https://resumebooster.work/cv-standards): Photo, length, and personal-data norms for 56 countries — the scanner's own per-market rules, with localized pages in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Dutch.
- [Freelance Boost](https://resumebooster.work/freelance-boost): Guided flow converting freelance projects, gig work, and side hustles into recruiter-grade resume experience. $29 one-time.
- [Resume Builder](https://resumebooster.work/builder): Free structured builder with professionally typeset PDF and DOCX export.
- [Workday parsing guide](https://resumebooster.work/ats/workday), [Greenhouse](https://resumebooster.work/ats/greenhouse), [Lever](https://resumebooster.work/ats/lever), [iCIMS](https://resumebooster.work/ats/icims): How each major ATS actually parses resumes.
- [vs Jobscan](https://resumebooster.work/vs/jobscan), [vs Teal](https://resumebooster.work/vs/teal), [vs Rezi](https://resumebooster.work/vs/rezi), [vs Kickresume](https://resumebooster.work/vs/kickresume), [vs Enhancv](https://resumebooster.work/vs/enhancv): Honest comparisons that name where competitors win.
- [Pricing](https://resumebooster.work/pricing): One-time tools and the all-access plan.
- [Methodology](https://resumebooster.work/methodology): How scoring and detection work.
- [Trust](https://resumebooster.work/trust): Privacy and data handling — every place a copy of a résumé is kept, and for how long (free-scan text 24 hours, reports 7 days, paid analyses 90 days; résumés saved to an account or given to the apply agent until the user deletes the account or asks for erasure).
- [Changelog](https://resumebooster.work/changelog): Ships multiple times weekly; includes honest postmortems.

## Optional

- [Privacy Policy](https://resumebooster.work/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://resumebooster.work/terms)
- [Shortlist](https://resumebooster.work/shortlist): Employer-side candidate screening with a compliance-first audit trail (NYC LL144, IL HB 3773 aware).