Job Application Screener
Paste a job description and your background. Get an honest 'should I apply?' verdict and what to address.
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What it produces
Real output from this tool, not a mock-up.
What went in
- The job description
- Senior Product Designer. 5+ years product design experience, ideally in B2B SaaS. Must have shipped end to end from research to handoff. Experience running usability testing. Design systems experience essential. Figma. Nice to have: front-end familiarity, experience in fintech or health.
- Your background
- Product designer, 4 years. All of it at an agency doing client work, mostly marketing sites and two B2B dashboards. I have run usability tests, about a dozen sessions. I built and maintained our agency's shared component library in Figma. No in-house SaaS experience. I can read HTML and CSS but do not write production code.
Verdict
Worth a shot. You're a year short of the stated 5+ years and your SaaS work is limited to two dashboard projects rather than sustained in-house product ownership, but the usability testing, component library work, and Figma fluency are real and directly relevant.
Where you match and where you do not
- Gap: 4 years experience against a 5+ year requirement: a borderline gap, not a dealbreaker, but they may screen on this number alone.
- Gap: Agency background means most work was marketing sites, not B2B SaaS end to end. Only two dashboard projects match the 'ideally B2B SaaS' preference, and agency client work rarely means owning research through handoff the way in-house does.
- Strength: 'Design systems experience essential' is met solidly: you built and maintained a shared component library in Figma, which is exactly this requirement.
- Strength: 'Experience running usability testing' is met with about a dozen sessions run, a concrete number to cite.
- Gap: 'Comfortable working directly with engineers' isn't addressed in your background at all; agency work often routes through account managers rather than direct engineering collaboration, so this needs clarifying.
- Strength: Front-end familiarity (reading HTML/CSS) covers the nice-to-have, even though you don't write production code.
What to address if you apply
- Name the two B2B dashboard projects specifically and describe what 'end to end from research to handoff' looked like on them, since that's the closest match to their core requirement.
- Address the years gap directly rather than hoping they don't notice: frame the agency years as compressed, high-volume exposure across many clients rather than trying to round up to 5.
- Clarify how much direct engineer contact you had on the dashboard work versus routing through account management; if it was direct, say so explicitly since the posting calls this out by name.
- Mention the fintech or health nice-to-have only if one of your agency clients was in those spaces; otherwise skip it rather than stretching to imply it.
When to use it
Use this before you spend an evening on an application you are unsure about. It gives an honest verdict on whether to apply, a point-by-point read on where you match and where you do not, and the specific gaps worth addressing if you go ahead. It is deliberately willing to tell you the fit is weak.
Common questions
Will it just tell me to apply for everything?
No. It is built to give an honest read, including that a role is a stretch or a poor fit, and it names the requirements you do not meet rather than talking around them. The verdict is meant to save you an evening on an application that was never going to land.
Is a gap in the requirements a reason not to apply?
Usually not on its own. Job ads are a wish list, and most people who get hired do not meet every line. What the fit breakdown gives you is which gaps are cosmetic and which are the ones a screener will actually filter on, which is a more useful distinction than a count.
What do I do with the list of things to address?
Work them into your cover letter or application answers. They are the points a reader will otherwise raise themselves, so naming them first is almost always stronger than hoping they go unnoticed.
Why does this cost more than one credit?
This one needs an account, because it costs 2 credits per run and the free daily runs only cover one-credit tools. New accounts start with free credits and every plan renews monthly.