The short version
Jobscan scores how closely your resume's keywords match a job posting and gives you a match rate. Relaunch reads the same resume and the same posting and tells you two things separately: whether your experience fits the job, and whether your resume is showing it. Then it helps you fix the second one in your own words, and gets you ready for the interview that follows.
| Jobscan | Relaunch | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get back | A match rate, built mainly from hard skills, education, job title, soft skills and other keywords | A verdict in words, split in two: your experience and your resume, judged separately |
| The goal it sets | Jobscan recommends a match rate of 75% | No target number. The question is whether a person reading it will see what you have done |
| Changes to your resume | Suggestions based on the job description, including AI suggestions | Questions about what you did. If you cannot supply a fact, the line stays as you wrote it. Nothing is invented |
| After you apply | Not the focus of the scan | Interview practice for the stage you are facing, with a follow-up question, feedback and a company brief |
| Applicant tracking systems | Built around them | Checks the formatting problems that trip them up, then writes for the person who reads the resume next |
Jobscan details are from jobscan.co as of October 18, 2026. We could not read Jobscan's current prices on its public site, so this page does not quote them.
Where a match rate helps, and where it stops
A match rate is useful for one thing: spotting a skill the posting names that your resume never mentions. If you have done that work and left it out, add it. Jobscan itself warns that stuffing a resume with keywords can backfire.
What a percentage cannot tell you is why. A 60% match can mean your experience is genuinely thin for the role, or that it is all there and described in the wrong words. Those two need opposite responses: one says look for a better-fitting job, the other says rewrite the top third of your resume. Relaunch's verdict separates them on purpose, so a strong background presented badly reads as "Strong Experience, Reposition First", not as a low score.
What changes on your resume
Relaunch does not rewrite your experience into something you would not say. When a bullet is missing its result or its scale, the coach asks you about it. If you do not know the number, the line stays as it is. Every fact on the finished resume came from you, so there is nothing you will have to explain away in the interview.
Which one to use
If you are sending a high volume of applications and want a quick keyword checklist for each posting, a match-rate tool is built for that. If you want to know whether a specific job is worth your one application, fix how your real experience reads, and practise the interview it leads to, that is what Relaunch is for. Plenty of people will use a keyword check for a final pass either way.