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Free AI Target Role Suggester

"What jobs should I even apply for?" is a harder question than it sounds — titles hide what roles actually screen for. Paste your experience and Pass ATS Resume matches it against what common roles really require, returning five realistic targets with the evidence for each fit and the gaps named plainly.

Paste your experience, skills, or your current resume text

Suggestions come from a fixed catalog of common roles and the skills each is screened for — matched against your text, never invented titles.

How it works

Your text is compared against a catalog of roles and the skill vocabulary each is screened for. The AI picks the five closest fits and — this is the enforced part — must ground every fit in evidence present in your text and draw every gap from that role’s own skill list. Roles are validated against the catalog before you see them, so an invented title or an unlisted “gap” can’t reach the page.

Honest limits

The catalog covers common roles, weighted toward hourly, service, office, care, and trades work plus core tech roles — it isn’t every job in the economy, and specialized professions (licensed, degree-gated) are matched on their transferable skills only. Fit here means “your evidenced skills overlap this role’s screening list,” not a hiring probability. Local labor markets, certifications, and plain timing still decide real outcomes.

Frequently asked questions

Where do the suggested roles come from?

A fixed catalog of common roles — warehouse, care, office, food service, trades, tech, and more — each with the skills that role is actually screened for. Your text is matched against those skill lists. The suggester can only pick from the catalog, so it can never hallucinate a fashionable job title that doesn't correspond to a real screening pattern.

Why does it show gaps? Isn't that discouraging?

The gaps are the most useful part. 'Forklift operation' as a named gap tells you exactly which certificate or which piece of experience stands between you and that role — and which of your existing skills already transfer. A suggester that only flatters you sends you into applications you're not ready for. Close the gap for real, or pick the role whose gaps are smallest.

My dream role isn't in the five. What then?

Two possibilities: your text doesn't evidence its screened skills yet (build the experience, or find the adjacent evidence in work you did describe), or the role falls outside the catalog's common roles. Either way, the five you got are your nearest realistic targets — applying to near-fit roles while you build toward the dream role beats waiting unemployed for a perfect match.

Where does my text go?

To our own server, where our AI runs — never to a third-party AI service, and it isn't stored or used to train anything. If the AI server doesn't answer, a skills-overlap scorer runs the same catalog match without it, and the result tells you which mode ran.

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