Is this job real? Know before you apply.
Score This Job checks the posting in your tab for ghost-job red flags and scores how well your resume fits it. One number from 0 to 100, half the listing and half you, before you spend an hour tailoring.
Set it up once. It runs on every supported job page after that.
Three steps, then every posting you open on LinkedIn or a major applicant-tracking system comes with a score. On any other careers page, click the icon.
Add your resume
PDF, Word or Google Docs, to a free account. We read your skills and map each one to a single name, so React.js and ReactJS count as the same thing. It is stored encrypted, and you can delete it any time.
Open a job posting
The extension reads the listing, separates required skills from nice-to-haves, and picks up the seniority it asks for and hard requirements like language, U.S. citizenship, security clearance and visa sponsorship.
Read your verdict
One score out of 100, a plain verdict, what matched and what is missing, and any dealbreaker spelled out. No resume yet? You still get the listing check.
Fourteen ghost job red flags, checked on every listing.
Half the score is the job, not you. A perfect skill match is worth nothing if the listing was never real, so Score This Job checks every posting for the signals that separate an open role from a ghost job.
Ghost job red flags
Roles re-listed for months with the same text, pipeline wording like "join our talent pool", and postings that read like a résumé collector rather than an opening.
Listing freshness
When the role was first seen and how often it has been refreshed since. A "posted today" badge on a job we first saw in March is not fresh.
Vague, evergreen wording
"Always hiring", requirement lists broad enough to fit five different jobs, and no concrete scope or deliverable.
Salary and a real contact
Whether pay is published and how wide the range is, and whether a recruiter or hiring manager is named.
A score you can check, because the rules are fixed.
Keyword counters treat every word the same. Score This Job weighs what a recruiter screens on first, and the same posting and resume always give the same number.
Required skills weigh most
Requirements are sorted by how the posting phrases them. Required skills make up 55% of your match; preferred skills 15%. A missing nice-to-have trims the score, a missing requirement costs real points.
Title and seniority count too
Another 15% each goes to how close your past titles are to this one and whether your level matches the one asked for. A junior applying for a staff role hears it straight.
One name for every skill
Postgres and PostgreSQL, Node and Node.js, GCP and Google Cloud: spelling differences never cost you a match.
Dealbreakers are checked on their own
A required language or security clearance you do not have caps the match at 49, however strong your skills. U.S. citizenship and no-sponsorship rules are flagged so you can check them before applying.
Questions job seekers ask
About ghost jobs, and about how the score works.
What is a ghost job?
A ghost job is a posting for a role that is not really open: kept up to collect resumes, re-listed for months, or already filled. It costs you the hour you spend tailoring an application nobody will read.
How can I tell if a job posting is real?
Look at how long it has been up and how often it has been re-listed, whether it names a real team and a person to contact, whether the requirements describe one concrete job, and whether it publishes pay. Score This Job checks all of these for you. When it has seen a posting before, it also tells you how long the role has really been open and how often it has been re-listed.
Which job sites does Score This Job work on?
LinkedIn, plus the applicant-tracking systems most US employers post through: Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, Workable and SmartRecruiters. On any other careers page, click the Score This Job icon: if the page publishes standard job data, as most employer career sites do for Google, it is read too. Indeed and Glassdoor are not supported yet.
How is the score worked out?
Half of the score is the listing: fourteen signals across ghost-job risk, freshness, vague wording, salary and hiring contact. The other half is your match: required skills count for 55%, preferred skills, job title and seniority for 15% each. When a posting lists nothing for one of those (no preferred skills, say), that share is spread across the rest rather than counted as a perfect match. A hard requirement you do not meet, like a language or a security clearance, caps the match at 49. The same posting and resume always give the same score.
Is Score This Job free?
Yes. The extension is free, and the listing check works without an account. Add your resume to a free account to get the match half as well.
What happens to my resume?
It is stored encrypted so scoring is one click, and you can delete it at any time. The privacy policy lists everything we keep and why.