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Compare a resume with a job description

Map documented experience to explicit requirements without turning keyword similarity into evidence

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Compare the resume with the job description using only documented evidence.

Complete dated job posting:
[job]

Resume and additional verified facts:
[resume]

Required/preferred rules, evidence threshold, transitions, location, authorization, and scoring limits:
[rules]

Extract atomic job requirements and label explicit required, explicit preferred, responsibility-derived, and unknown. Map each to exact resume evidence as Direct, Transferable, Weak/implicit, Missing, or Needs clarification, with source lines and rationale. Keyword overlap alone is not evidence. Do not infer proficiency, duration, results, authority, or experience absent from the materials. Distinguish a true qualification gap from a presentation gap and a recruiter question. Return requirement matrix, strongest evidence, material gaps, non-negotiable unknowns, truthful resume edits, evidence to gather, apply/clarify-first considerations, and interview preparation priorities. Avoid a pseudo-precise fit percentage unless the user supplies a weighting model.
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Job description
Operations Analyst, posted 4 Aug 2026. Required: advanced Excel; two years working with operational data; clear written communication. Responsibilities: weekly capacity reporting, variance investigation, depot-manager partnership, planning-process improvement, director recommendations. Preferred: SQL, Power BI, logistics. Manchester hybrid; occasional depot visits. Sponsorship and hybrid frequency not stated.
Resume and supporting facts
Retail Supervisor, North Shop, Sep 2023–present. Built weekly staffing workbook using Excel tables, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS and validation for 45 employees; reduced rota corrections from 12 to 5 per month over three months. Investigated stock-count differences with three store managers and documented revised count checklist. Wrote weekly trading notes for area manager. BA History 2023. Additional verified facts: used CSV exports but no SQL or Power BI; based in Leeds; needs sponsorship; can travel to Manchester twice weekly but depot geography unknown.
Comparison rules
Required items need direct or clearly transferable evidence. Preferred items are advantages. Do not invent 'advanced' definition or years beyond dates. No fit score. Treat sponsorship, hybrid pattern, and travel area as clarify-first unknowns.

Example output

Required—advanced Excel: Direct/needs clarification. Evidence: weekly 45-person workbook using Tables, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, and validation with measured correction change. Strong tool/workflow evidence, but the employer does not define “advanced.” Required—two years operational data: Direct if dates through application date meet two years; retail staffing and stock counts are operational data. Required—writing: Direct, weekly trading notes to area manager; content quality/sample not supplied.

Responsibilities: weekly capacity reporting—Direct via staffing workbook; variance investigation—Direct/transferable via stock-count differences; manager partnership—Direct with three store managers; process improvement—Direct via revised checklist and rota correction result; director recommendations—Weak/implicit, because area-manager notes do not establish recommendations to director level. Preferred SQL/Power BI—Missing; logistics—Transferable retail operations, but not explicit logistics.

Truthful edits: lead the staffing bullet with capacity purpose, retain exact formulas and 12→5 result; clarify what the trading notes contained if verified; do not add SQL, Power BI, “advanced,” or director presentation. Evidence gap to gather: workbook scale/refresh/quality checks and one written recommendation example. Clarify before major effort: sponsorship, required Manchester days, and depot travel area. Interview priorities: explain correction metric, investigation method, stakeholder handling, and boundaries of current BI experience.

Why this works

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    Exact evidence mapping distinguishes a missing skill from a skill that is merely poorly presented.

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    Requirement labels prevent preferred qualifications from being treated as automatic rejection gates.

Check the result

  • Does every match cite exact, verified resume evidence?

  • Are required, preferred, inferred, presentation-gap, and true-gap categories distinct?

  • Were unsupported proficiency, duration, authority, and outcomes left unclaimed?

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