JobscanReviews 1,699

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

The new scan tool, does not conform to formatting issues.
Does not upload your resume in to scan tool.
Not reading ATS words present in a resume.
Reformates your resume
No customer support.

I have not secured one interview using the resume customization tools on this site. I have gotten scores of about 75% in almost every case and have heard nothing back. I am very qualified in my field, so this is surprising. I guess it could be the job market right now, but I don't feel like this has given me any advantage for the money.

I like the job tracker, but when I input a job, it needs to flow right into me uploading my resume so I can customize it for the job. Also, I want a tracking stage for rejections that is not just an archive. I want to track if they rejected me or if I rejected the job because it was not a good fit. Also, this needs to load into its page. I have had situations where I clicked wrong, and none of the data I put in about a job was saved because it closed the pop-up window for entering the job.

Signed up for free trial. Cancelled after a couple of weeks. Was still charged at the end of the month. Customer service was useless

The resume scanner gives keywords that are not relevant to the skills needed for specific roles. It just picks repeated words. I am also not a fan of the resume builder as it doesn't scan my professional written resume properly. Once you make payment that is it.

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.

I had been applying for jobs but my resume was getting automatically rejected. After I started using this program and incorporating keywords into my resume and cover letter. This made a HUGE difference. I was getting interviews and got the job I wanted. I know this wouldn't have happened if I had not used this program. IT IS WORTH THE MONEY.

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.

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.

The tool's ability to review your resume and the job description, making suggestions on how your resume should be tailored for a specific role is excellent. Everything from hard and soft skills, to formatting and even file naming are covered. The cover letter tool is generally pretty good as well. I find it leans a bit on the generic side, though the Ai does not have context outside the resume and job description to reference. So it stands to reason it's output would be more generic. My suggestion here is that the Ai should learn over time in that with each new scan, it learns more about the user as far as preferences, experience and tone. As far as the power edit feature, great potential, but this feel like it needs more work to be a compelling value. I tried it but I did not think it did a good job reformatting my resume. It adds ugly horizontal dividers in the editor (i'm aware these disappear when saving/downloading) and does not do a good job around taking existing nested bulleted lists and reformatting those. There's not much sense in using the feature if I have to further edit and fix my resume outside the tool after using it. Trying to fix these bulleted lists within the tool is frustrating. This is not a rant, but simply an observation and critique of the feature. I know this version of powerEdit is brand new and likely needs some additional development cycles to iteratively improve. Another nice feature is the "Job Tracker". This allows you to save your scan results into a record of the saved or applied jobs. You can set the status of the job application as well to keep track of which roles you have saved or applied for. My only critique here is that there is no "ghosted", "rejected" or "withdrawn" statuses you can set. I've simply had to "archive" those applications where I either heard nothing back or had been rejected.

Overall, a fantastic tool to help you apply to roles with tight alignment to your resume and cover letter!

I wont lie Jobscan is expensive as sin. At $80 a month it had to do a LOT to be worth keeping it around, especially in this economy. So when to my complete surprise I had a job offer before the 2 week free trial was out, its fair to say I was utterly shocked. Their system does a fantastic job of handling the obtuse tense requirements of ATS software keyword scanners. What I got the most mileage out of though, where the automated prompts about phrasing the key words found in the job post. The prompts were to the point and weren't too obviously AI generated like a lot of writing. I would still recommend rewriting them in your own words but they really help to get an idea of how to phrase what you have done in the most marketable manner possible.

Don't waste your time on the cover letter system though, its utterly useless and you really need to write a proper one yourself. A true solid cover letter is a full page not a single paragraph of the most obviously auto generated text ever put to paper. The system tries to take in your resume, match it to the prompt but it comes out soulless because frankly it IS. A cover letter is where you talk about why you truly CARE about what you do and the empty writing their AI puts out for these is glaringly obvious.

"Man dude why are you bashing a system you just gave 5 stars?" Because I am honest, to a fault and for the premium they are charging not making a big deal of its issues AND its features is negligent on my part.

In summary: JobScan is clearly a premium product that has fully delivered on its promise of a robust and technically sound resume builder with flying covers. While its secondary features like the cover letter builder leave much to be desired, its flagship features more than justify the giant price tag.

Overall I would rate the product a 90/100 would buy review. Should they lower the price or fix the cover letter system to be as sturdy as their resume system sometime in the future ignore any and all complaints I have made, throw your credit card at their face, and don't look back.