Changing careers?Find the jobs your skills already fit.
ShouldApply reads your whole background, not just your last title. See which skills carry into the new field, and the exact point cost of each gap.
Free to start. No credit card. Upload the resume you already have.
Curriculum design From the resume you have to a scored shortlist in the new field
About two minutes. No rewrite first.
Upload the resume you have
Classroom work reads as skills. "Designed a 9th-grade biology unit" counts as curriculum design.
Search the new field
Pulls from 4 boards every 2 hours, drops duplicates and dead links, then scores the top 50.
Close the right gaps
Each deduction has a cost. Some are a weekend course. Some mean aim for a different title first.
See which of your skills count in the new field
What you see from your very first search.
Your full history, read line by line
A keyword scanner sees "Teacher" and a corporate title and calls it a mismatch. The engine reads what you actually did.
See which part of the score to work on
A switch usually lowers Industry Fit and leaves Skills Match intact. You get the breakdown, not one flat number.
An estimated salary on every listing
When a posting leaves pay out, you still see a range, so you can skip the lowball roles before you apply.
Search your new field in one place
A single feed in the new field, a resume that leads with what transfers, and a score on every posting you open.
Alex Morgan
Instructional Designer · Remote · alex@example.com
Educator with 8 years designing courses and assessments, moving into corporate learning design.
Experience
- Designed 12 full courses with assessments, now used by 9 teachers across the district
- Trained 4 new staff on course design and classroom facilitation
- Built a feedback survey that raised course ratings 22%
Cover letter drafted too. It opens with the same line, see the next tab.
Alex Morgan
Remote · alex@example.com
Hiring team, Brightpath Learning
Re: Instructional Designer
Dear hiring team,
I have designed 12 full courses, with assessments now used by nine teachers across my district, which maps closely to your Instructional Designer role.
I also trained four new staff to teach that material and built the feedback survey that raised course ratings 22%. I am ready to bring that work to corporate learning at Brightpath.
Thank you for your time. I would welcome a conversation.
Alex Morgan
- Ghost risk: low
- $74K to $88K posted
- Autofill ready
Your score, with the career switch priced in
70% profile fit, 30% resume match, and every deduction listed with what triggered it. Weight skills above industry while you make the move.
Why mass-applying stops working
A typical month of sending the same resume everywhere.
About 1 reply for every 15 applications, and no interviews.
Same skills, new road.
See your fit score and skill gaps before spending hours applying.
You're not starting over.
Your skills come with you.
Score a few postings in the new field and see where your background already fits.
Free to start. No credit card required.
- Teacher, 8 yearsThe resume you already have
- Curriculum design carries overRead at L4, the level the role needs
- Resume rewritten for L&DMatch goes from 58 to 76
- Instructional DesignerApply with the score to back it
From people who found a better fit
I went from spending 8 hours a day applying to a handful of jobs that weren't reaching out, to less than an hour a day and getting interview requests stacking in my inbox.
It allowed me to seek better opportunities easily in my free time and ultimately resulted in a far better offer than my previous role.
Everything built into your search
Included with every account.
Questions
What people ask before they upload a resume.
Will it understand my transferable skills?
Yes. It reads your full work history and rates each skill L1 to L5 from how you used it, then compares that to what the new role asks for. A skill built in one industry still counts if the posting needs it.
A teacher who "designed a year-long biology curriculum and trained four new staff" shows up with curriculum design and training at real depth, not as a mismatch because the title says Teacher.
Do I still need to check LinkedIn, Indeed and every other board?
No. The pipeline pulls from 4 sources every 2 hours and merges them into one feed. When the same role is posted on LinkedIn, Indeed and the company site, you see it once, scored once, with all three apply links kept.
Listings with dead links, thin descriptions or blocked domains never reach you. On Pro, background scanning runs for you and a daily email sends the best new matches, so you can stop opening tabs every morning.
Can it tailor my resume for each job?
Yes. Pick a role and ShouldApply rewrites your resume to lead with the experience that posting asks for, then shows your match score before and after so you can see what changed.
You get 3 tailored resumes free. Pro includes resume tailoring for every role you score (try the free version), so you can keep one version per kind of job instead of editing a single file by hand.
Is there a Chrome extension?
Yes. It works on the sites you already use (extension details):
- Open a listing on LinkedIn or Indeed and see your fit score right on the page
- Likely ghost jobs are flagged before you click Apply
- Estimated pay appears when the posting leaves salary out
- Autofill completes applications on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby with your saved answers
What if I'm changing industries entirely?
Industry Fit is scored on its own. A switch usually lowers it and leaves Skills Match intact, so the breakdown shows you which part of the score to work on instead of one flat number.
While you make the move, you can weight skills above industry so the feed ranks roles by what you can actually do. More on the career changers page.
How is the score calculated?
70% profile fit and 30% resume match, combined into one number from 0 to 100. Profile fit covers five dimensions: skills, experience level, seniority, industry, and logistics plus job quality.
Every point you lose is listed with its cause, so an 84 comes with the 16 points of reasons (how Why Not 100 works). You can change the weights if, say, remote matters more to you than industry.
What happens to my resume data?
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information. Your resume is used to score jobs and tailor resumes for you, and data goes only to the service providers that run the product, as listed in the privacy policy.
Autofill in the extension only fills a form when you switch it on.
Do I need to pay?
Not to start. Free includes 5 searches a day and 3 job scores a week, plus the ghost-job checks on every listing. New accounts get a 14-day trial with more room, no card required.
Pro adds unlimited scoring, background scanning, the daily match email, resume tailoring per role and interview prep. See pricing for current rates.
You already have most of what the new role needs.
See which ones fit the new field in about two minutes.