How does Koluvu find jobs based on my resume?

It reads titles, skills, seniority, dates, location and any remote preference from the resume, then compares them with each posting's title, listed skills, level, location field and stated salary. Seven signals in all, published in full on this page. Some are hard filters that skip a job entirely (salary under your floor, no sponsorship when you need it, a company you blocked). The rest produce the score. New jobs are scored as they arrive, which is usually minutes after the employer posts them.

Is this the same as matching my resume to a job description?

No, and the difference matters. A resume-to-job-description scanner (Jobscan's scanner, Teal, ResyMatch) scores you against one posting you already found. This is the other half: it finds the postings. If you want the scanner half, Koluvu's ATS resume checker does that, free, on its own page. Most people need both, in that order: find the fresh matches, then tailor for the two or three worth it.

Where do the jobs come from?

From employers' own career pages and the applicant tracking systems behind them: Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, iCIMS, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Jobvite and thousands of company sites, plus government portals. Not from LinkedIn or Indeed. Aggregators are useful for discovery but they lag the source, they count the same job several times, and they keep showing postings the employer took down. Every match here links to the employer's posting and is deduplicated by that listing, so one job is one job.

How fresh are the matches?

Koluvu polls the sources around the clock and most new postings are indexed within minutes of appearing on the employer's page. Each match shows when it was first seen. That timestamp is the honest one; a board's "posted 2 hours ago" is often a repost of a listing that has been open for weeks, which is why boards feel busier than the market is.

What is a match score and how is it calculated?

A number from 0 to 100 describing how well a posting fits your profile on seven signals: title and adjacent titles, skills with evidence, seniority and years, location and remote mode, salary against your floor, work authorization, and recency. It is grouped into four bands, Excellent (90+), Strong (78 to 89), Good (65 to 77) and Stretch (below 65). It is a ranking aid, not a prediction of an interview, and it is not the score a recruiter sees; recruiters don't see one.

What jobs am I qualified for based on my resume?

The Excellent and Strong bands are the practical answer: titles at your level, asking for skills you can show evidence of, in places you can work. Good is where the interesting surprises live, usually a job with a different title that wants exactly your skills. Stretch is shown for a reason too. If you're changing fields, the matcher won't invent experience you don't have, but it will show where what you have transfers, and you decide.

Can I find remote jobs that match my resume?

Yes. Set remote as a location preference and the matcher keeps only postings where the employer's own posting field says remote, not jobs a board tagged remote because the company has a remote policy somewhere. Hybrid is treated as hybrid and shown separately. Country and work-authorization filters still apply: "remote, US only" is a real constraint and the matcher respects it rather than flooding you with roles you can't take.

Can it find jobs matching my skills rather than my last title?

That is what the skills signal is for. Titles anchor the search; skills widen it. A resume heavy on SQL, dbt and Tableau surfaces Analytics Engineer and BI Developer postings alongside Data Analyst ones. Skills that appear inside a bullet with a result carry more weight than a bare list, because that is what both the matcher and a human reader trust.

My resume is thin, or I'm switching fields. Will I still get matches?

You'll get fewer Excellent matches and more Good and Stretch ones, which is the truthful picture. Skills, tools, coursework, volunteer and part-time work all count as signal, so write them down. For a field change, set the target titles you want rather than the ones you've had; the matcher scores against the profile you confirm, and the resume supplies the evidence.

Why do job boards keep recommending irrelevant jobs?

Because they optimize for applications, not fit. A board earns when you click, so its recommendations lean on broad title similarity and behavior of people like you, and reposts get surfaced as new to keep you applying. Koluvu has no employer paying for placement in your feed. The score is fit against your profile, hard filters remove what you told us you don't want, and recency pushes fresh postings up. If a match looks wrong, the reasons are shown so you can see which signal misfired and fix your profile.

How many jobs should I apply to?

Fewer than the tools that brag about volume would like. One experienced job seeker put it well: it's an odds game, not a numbers game. The odds go up with fit and with speed, and down with every application that lands in a pile of 244. The default quota on Koluvu's Autopilot plan is about ten a day, all in the Excellent and Strong bands, and most people lower it.

Do I still need to tailor my resume for each match?

If you apply yourself, yes, at least the summary and the bullets that speak to the posting. If you let the agent apply, it rebuilds the resume against each posting and the ATS reading it before submitting, and you can review every version before it goes. Either way, run the base resume through the ATS checker once so the parse is clean; tailoring a resume a parser can't read is wasted effort.

Is it free, and do I need an account?

The profile preview is free and needs nothing; it runs in your browser. Seeing your ranked matches needs a free account, because the matches live in Koluvu's index and keep refreshing as new jobs land. You create it in a dialog on this page, without losing your upload, and the matches appear below. The free plan includes matching, match scores, the tracker and ten auto-applies to try, with no card. Paid plans start at $29 a month and pricing is public.

What happens to my resume?

The preview never leaves your browser. When you ask for matches, the PDF is sent to Koluvu's server once, read by a model to build your profile, and deleted as soon as it has been read; what's kept is the structured profile, in your account, which you can edit. If you already built a profile by hand, the upload won't overwrite it. Your resume is not sold or shared with recruiters, staffing agencies or data brokers, and not used to train AI models. Delete your account and it's gone within 30 days.

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Upload your resume and Koluvu matches it against the open jobs it catches on 100,000+ company career pages and ATS boards. Not a scanner that scores you against one job description you already found. A matcher that finds the jobs, ranks them by fit and freshness, and shows you why.

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13,145
Fresh jobs caught in the last 24 hours: 102,418
Company career pages watched: 7
Match signals, all published below

Every match links to the employer’s own posting and is deduplicated by that listing, so one job is one job, however many boards repost it.

Why boards show you the wrong jobs

The job board isn't lying to you. It's late, and it counts the same job three times.

We watch employers' career pages refresh all day. A posting appears on the company site first, reaches the aggregators hours or days later, gets reposted as new for weeks, and often stays visible after the shortlist is done. Matching against that feed means matching against ghosts. The numbers below are the ones we trust; each links to its source.

41%of applications arrive in the first 48 hours: and 56% within four days. Whoever reads the pile reads it in arrival order, so being in the first 41% is most of the game.Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, on Dice/DHI application data
244applications per job on Greenhouse: in 2025, up from 116 in 2022. The pile doubled. The number of recruiters reading it did not.Source: Greenhouse, 2026 Recruiting Benchmark Report
39 daysmedian time to fill a role: across 4,600+ organizations. Postings usually outlive the decision: many are still showing on boards weeks after the shortlist closed.Source: SHRM, 2026 Recruiting Benchmarking
1 in 4US job listings is likely a ghost job: 27.4% of US listings on LinkedIn had been open more than 30 days with no sign of active hiring, across 980,000+ postings studied. A match against a job nobody is filling is a match against nothing.Source: ResumeUp.AI, Ghost Jobs Statistics 2026 (980,000+ listings)

What job seekers worked out on their own

“Big shift for me: timing > tailoring. Most of my interviews came from jobs I caught early (same day, sometimes same hour). Recruiters are overwhelmed too. The first wave matters.”
r/jobsearchhacks, February 2026

“The market looks about three times bigger than it is. When you scroll a board and see forty results for your title, you are not looking at forty openings.”
r/jobsearchhacks, July 2026

“I got tired of applying to postings that turned out to be long dead, so I started pulling listings straight from employer career pages instead of the aggregators. A lot of ATS listings roll off on a 30 day cycle whether or not anyone got hired.”
r/jobsearchhacks, August 2026, after tracking 1.65 million postings

These are skeptics’ threads, not testimonials. We’d rather you read what people who don’t use Koluvu figured out about timing and sources than a quote you can’t check.

How the matching works

Seven signals, four bands, and a few hard filters that skip a job outright

Most matchers describe themselves as AI and stop there. Here is what this one actually compares, in the order it matters. Anything that fails a hard filter is skipped and never scored; you don't see it and your application quota never goes to it.

01
Title, and the titles next to it
Your current and previous titles anchor the search, but companies name the same job five ways. A Data Analyst resume also matches Analytics Engineer and BI Developer postings when the skills line up.
02
Skills with evidence
A skill in your Skills section counts. The same skill inside a bullet with a result counts more, because that is what a recruiter's search and a hiring manager's eye both stop on.
03
Seniority and years
Read from your titles and your dates, then compared with the posting's level. A Senior posting that wants eight years scores a five-year resume as a stretch, not a match.
04
Location, remote, hybrid
Taken from the employer's own posting field, not a board's tag. Remote means the company wrote remote; hybrid means hybrid; a city means that city.
05
Salary against your floor
When the posting states a range and it sits under the minimum you set, the job is skipped, not scored. You never see it and your quota never goes to it.
06
Work authorization
Postings that state they can't sponsor are filtered out for candidates who need sponsorship. It is the most common knockout question and the cheapest one to avoid.
07
Recency
How long ago the job appeared on the employer's page. A perfect match posted three weeks ago is worth less than a good one posted this morning, and the ranking says so.
What a skipped job looks like
The same checks the agent runs before it applies. Below your salary floor, a level below yours, a repost you already applied to, a company you blocked: skipped, with the reason.

The four bands

The band is the label. The number is the tiebreaker.

90 to 100Excellent
Title, skills, level and location all line up and the posting is fresh. Apply today; these are the ones the agent applies to first.
78 to 89Strong
One dimension is slightly off, usually a skill the posting names that you have but didn't write down, or a level one notch above yours.
65 to 77Good
Worth a look, not a reflex. Often an adjacent title or a location that's workable but not stated in your resume.
Below 65Stretch
Shown so you can judge for yourself, never auto-applied to. A career change often lives here, and that's fine when it's your choice.

Ramp

Product Designer · $150k to $180k · Remote

Salary floor clears your minimum
Seniority matches your level
Already applied not a repost
Blocklist company not excluded

AppliedResume rewritten for this posting and submitted.

What a match score can't tell you

A score is a ranking aid. Treating it as a verdict is how people end up with 500 applications and no calls.

Every tool in this category shows a percentage. Almost none says what the percentage can't see. This one does, because the limits are the reason the application quota is modest and the agent applies to the top bands only.

It is not the recruiter's number

LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter score you on how people like you behaved in their marketplace. This score measures fit between your resume and the posting. Both are estimates. Neither is the decision.

It can't see the inside of the company

The internal candidate, the referral already in interviews, the budget freeze that hit last Tuesday. No score from any tool sees those, which is why the score is a ranking aid and the application count stays modest.

It rewards freshness on purpose

A 92 against a posting from three weeks ago is a 92 against a shortlist that probably exists already. Recency is in the score so a strong, fresh match outranks a perfect, stale one.

Match labels do change behavior when they’re honest. When ZipRecruiter added Great / Good / Fair / Not a Match labels, applications to jobs the person didn’t match fell 47% and applications to great matches rose 26%, by their own account (ZipRecruiter, 2021). Fewer, better applications is the whole point.

Remote jobs matching your resume

Remote means the employer wrote remote. Not that a board guessed.

Half the frustration with remote search is the tag. Boards mark a job remote because the company has a remote policy somewhere, or because a recruiter picked it to get clicks. Then the posting says hybrid, Austin, three days a week.

Koluvu reads the remote, hybrid or on-site field from the employer’s own posting, so “remote” in your matches means the company said so. Hybrid is shown as hybrid. Country and work-authorization filters still apply: “remote, US only” is a real constraint, and honoring it is what keeps your feed from filling with jobs you can’t take.

One more thing we see from the crawl: remote postings draw far more applications than on-site ones at the same company, so freshness matters even more. A remote match caught the hour it posts is a different opportunity from the same job three days later.

RemoteThe employer's field says remote. Country limits shown when stated.

HybridShown separately with the city, never mixed into remote results.

On-siteMatched against your locations only.

UnstatedTreated as on-site at the posting's location until the employer says otherwise.

One resume, three titles it matches

Skills carry across titles; the matcher follows them.

SQLdbtSnowflakeTableauA/B testingPython

Data Analyst
Same title as the resume
Excellent
Analytics Engineer
Different title, five of six skills named
Strong
BI Developer
Tableau and SQL heavy, dbt a bonus
Good

Find jobs matching your skills

Your last title is one search. Your skills are the other four.

Companies name the same job five ways, and the best-fitting posting is often the one with the title you'd never have typed. Titles anchor the search here. Skills widen it.

Two things make the skills signal work. Write the tools you actually use in a Skills section, in the words a posting would use, so the matcher can find them. Then show at least some of them inside a bullet with a result, because a skill with evidence outranks a skill in a list, for the matcher and for the human who reads the shortlist.

The upload card at the top shows exactly which skills were read from your resume. If a tool you use daily isn’t there, the fix is on your side and takes a minute.

Upload your resume and find matching jobs in four steps

The preview and the matches both happen on this page. Your account keeps scoring new postings against the same profile after you leave.

01
Upload your resume
A PDF. It's read in your browser first, so you see the titles, skills and seniority the matcher will anchor on before anything is sent anywhere.
Instant
02
Ask for matches, sign in
A free account, created in a dialog on this page. Then the PDF is read once on the server to build your profile, and deleted as soon as it has been read.
About a minute
03
Read your ranked matches
Open jobs from 100,000+ career pages scored against you, right below the upload card. Save the good ones, dismiss the rest.
On this page
04
Refine, apply, or let the agent
Set salary floor, locations and work authorization to tighten the filters. Apply yourself, or let Koluvu rebuild your resume per posting and submit within minutes of it going live.
Your call

How it compares

Koluvu vs Jobright, Jobscan, Kickresume and LinkedIn Job Match

Four capable tools. The differences are where the jobs come from, what you see before signing up, and what happens after the score.

	Koluvu	Jobright	Jobscan Jobs	Kickresume Matcher	LinkedIn Job Match
Where the jobs come from	100,000+ company career pages, direct	8M jobs; source not stated	Your keyword search inside Jobscan	Its own job board	Jobs you already found on LinkedIn
Shown before signup	Your match profile, in your browser	No	No	No	n/a
Freshness stated	Caught in minutes; first seen shown	Frequent updates	Not stated	Not stated	Board's own dates
How the score works	Bands, signals and hard filters published	Breakdown inside the app	Match rate after a scan	Ranked by fit	Low, medium, high
Duplicates from aggregators	Deduplicated by the employer's listing	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Reposts shown as new
Then applies for you	Yes, reviewed, on the employer's ATS	Autofill	No	No	No

Competitor details come from their public pages as of September 2026 and will change. Where a company doesn’t state something, the cell says so rather than guessing. Jobright, Jobscan and Kickresume are good products; the table is about what each one tells you.

Then the part nobody enjoys

Matching finds the job. The agent gets you into the first wave.

A match is only worth something while the pile is short. Koluvu’s agent takes the Excellent and Strong matches, rewrites your resume against each posting and the ATS reading it, answers the screening questions in your words, and submits on the employer’s own site, usually within minutes of the job going live. You review every one first, or let it run.

See my matches How the agent works

Applies only in the Excellent and Strong bands; never to a Stretch
Submits on the employer's ATS, never LinkedIn Easy Apply
Every resume version and answer archived against the job
10 free auto-applies to try it, no card

Questions people actually ask

Jobs matching my resume: the questions, answered plainly

Koluvu is an AI job search agent that matches your resume against open jobs on 100,000+ company career pages and applies for you. Here is how the matching part holds up to the questions people bring to it.

Yes, on this page. Upload your resume and the browser shows the titles, skills and seniority the matcher will anchor on. Ask for matches, sign in (free, in a dialog, no card), and Koluvu builds your profile from the PDF and scores the open jobs it has caught on 100,000+ company career pages against it. The matches appear right under the upload card, ranked in four bands, newest first, and keep refreshing in your dashboard afterward.

Last thing

The next job matching your resume posts in about four minutes.

See what the matcher reads first. It takes a few seconds and stays in your browser.

Match my resume

PDF · no signup to start · ranked matches on this page after a free sign-in

Find jobs matching your resume, caught minutes after they post.

The job board isn't lying to you. It's late, and it counts the same job three times.

Seven signals, four bands, and a few hard filters that skip a job outright

Title, and the titles next to it

Skills with evidence

Seniority and years

Location, remote, hybrid

Salary against your floor

Work authorization

Recency

What a skipped job looks like