Guide · Glossary
Glossary
Standard terms are words you will hear from recruiters and other tools, so you can search for them. Our terms are names we made up for parts of cvagent.ai.
Standard terms
- AI screener
- Software that reads applications and ranks or sorts them before a person does.
- Applicant tracking system
- Where employers store and sort applications. Most automatic rejections come from its screening questions, not from formatting.
- Cover letter
- A short letter for one job that goes with your resume.
- Job post
- The ad for the job, with its title, what it asks for and how to apply.
- Keyword
- A word from the job post that software or a recruiter searches for.
- Parser
- Software that pulls the text out of your resume file so it can be searched.
- Screening questions
- Questions on an application form, such as whether you need visa sponsorship.
No standard terms match.
Our terms
- Added
- A mark on a line that came from elsewhere in your resume, or from your answer to a gap.
- Credit
- Pays for one tailored resume with its cover letter, or for 3 more rewrites of one.
- Free resume check
- The check at /check. It needs no account, and your file is not saved.
- Gap
- Something the job asks for that your resume does not show yet.
- Match score
- How many of the job's requirements your resume shows. It counts requirements, not keywords.
- Read-back
- We copy the text back out of your PDF and confirm each line came through in order.
- Reworded
- A mark on a line that says the same fact in words closer to the job post.
No terms of ours match.