CVSharkJobscan has been doing this since 2014 and is the name most people find first. If you are weighing it up, the useful question is not which tool scores better, because the two scores are not measuring the same thing and neither of them is the employer’s. The useful question is which market the tool was built for.
What they do that we do not
A great deal, honestly. Jobscan has a decade of accumulated data, a much broader product (LinkedIn optimisation, job matching, a resume builder, power edits), and a scale of usage we have no answer to. If you want the most feature-complete tool in this category, it is not us.
They also publish research and maintain relationships across the ATS industry, which is genuine expertise rather than marketing.
Where an Australian search runs into the seams
Any tool that reads a job ad and compares it to your resume works anywhere, because that comparison is not country-specific. Paste in a SEEK ad and you get a sensible answer.
The gap is everything an Australian recruiter expects that is not written in the job ad, because nobody writes down a convention everybody local already knows:
- Work rights. Close to a non-question in the United States and one of the first things resolved here. A resume that leaves it ambiguous loses interviews to that ambiguity, and no keyword comparison surfaces it.
- Referees. Australian resumes keep the section. American convention drops it, so a tool trained on American resumes has no reason to notice it is missing, or to preserve it when rewriting.
- Address, photo, personal details. Different norms, and the American ones are looser on some points and stricter on others.
- Spelling. Small, and it accumulates. A document that organizes rather than organises reads as imported.
None of these individually explains a rejection. Together they are the difference between a resume written for here and one adapted from somewhere else.
On comparing the two scores
Do not. Every tool in this category weights its own model, and none of us can see inside the employer’s system, so a 70 from one product and a 70 from another are not the same measurement in different packaging. They are different measurements.
A score is only meaningful against itself: this resume, this ad, before and after a change. Ours is published in full, including the weights and the arithmetic, which is the only way the number is worth anything to you.
What it costs to find out
We are not quoting their prices here. Their public pricing page now routes through a signed-in app screen, we could not verify the current numbers from the source, and a stale price on a comparison page is worse than no price at all.
Check both yourself. What is worth knowing is the shape rather than the number: most tools in this category, including theirs, meter the free tier by scans per month. Ours runs the first check with no account and no card, because a tool you cannot try is a tool you have to take on faith, and our own prices are in Australian dollars, GST inclusive, which for a global product they usually are not.
The short version
If your job search spans several countries, or is aimed largely at the Australian offices of large American companies, Jobscan is the more established tool and probably the right one.
If you are applying for Australian jobs, through SEEK, to Australian employers and government, the conventions that decide whether your resume reads as local are the ones we were built around and a global tool has little reason to encode.
Cheapest way to settle it: run your resume through both free tiers with the same job ad and see which report tells you something you did not already know.