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Skill scoring, not keyword matching

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01Step

Distributed Systems Foundations

Course

Earns

gRPC
14 hrs+6%
02Step

Kubernetes hands-on

Project

Earns

Kubernetes
16 hrs+6%
03Step

Stream processing

Course

Earns

Kafka
12 hrs+6%

The product

A real fit score, not a vague match

We extract every concrete skill from the role, weight what's required higher than what's preferred, and tell you exactly which gaps move the score.

analyze / senior-backend-engineer-stripe.json

Composite score

Senior Backend Engineer · Stripe · Remote

resume_2026_v3.pdf · 124 KB · analyzed 2 min ago

+12 since Mar 4
74%fit

You hit 10 of 13 required skills. The gap is concentrated in distributed-systems primitives: gRPC, Kubernetes, Kafka.

Required ×0.8Preferred ×0.2~6 weeks to close

Top-impact gaps

5
  • ReqgRPC+6%
  • ReqKubernetes+6%
  • ReqKafka+6%
  • PrefSnowflake+2.5%
  • PrefHelm+2.5%

Score trend

7 versions
62 → 74+12

Feb 12 · Mar 4 · today

Skills extracted

21 total
Requiredweight ×0.8
10 / 13 · 77%
TypeScriptGoPostgresRedisDockerAWSREST APIsSQLGitLinuxgRPCKubernetesKafka
Preferredweight ×0.2
5 / 8 · 63%
GraphQLTerraformRabbitMQPrometheusOpenAPISnowflakeHelmVault

Next step

Start gRPC + Distributed Systems. Closes a required skill, biggest move on your composite.

~14 hrs · +6% projected

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How it works

Three steps from resume to plan

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Upload resume and role

Drop a resume in PDF or paste plain text, then paste the job description. SkillBridge parses both into structured skills.

74%fit
Required×0.8
Preferred×0.2

Score fit, not keywords

Required skills weigh heavier than preferred. The composite tells you the gap; the breakdown tells you which skills carry it.

  • Read: Designing Data-Intensive Apps
  • Build: gRPC service prototype
  • Course: Distributed Systems

Get a plan you can act on

Each gap maps to focused courses, project ideas, and practice prompts, ordered by impact on your score.

Scoring model

We score the skills you can actually learn

Forget categories like "methodology" or "soft skills." SkillBridge extracts every concrete skill from the role, the things you can pick up in a course or on the job, and weights what's required higher than what's preferred.

The weights

Requiredweight ×0.8

Must-haves named in the role description

Preferredweight ×0.2

Nice-to-haves and listed bonuses

composite = required × 0.8+preferred × 0.2

Counts as a skill

  • Languages, frameworks, runtimes
  • Databases, queues, caches
  • Cloud providers, services, infra tools
  • Libraries and concrete protocols (gRPC, REST, GraphQL)

Doesn't count

  • Years of experience
  • Vague soft skills
  • Domain buzzwords without a tool behind them
  • Keywords that aren't teachable in a course

The difference

Most tools count keywords.
We score skill depth.

A keyword match tells you whether the word is on the page. A skill score tells you whether you can do the job. The difference shows up in the second interview.

Generic keyword tools

Typical
  • Resumes treated like bags of words. Easy to game, noisy for technical roles.
  • One opaque percentage with no sense of which skills move the needle.
  • Leaves you guessing what to study next, or pushes unrelated certificates.
  • Hard to revisit progress across resume versions and interviews.

SkillBridge

Our approach
  • Every concrete skill is extracted, not just keyword surface area.
  • Required and preferred are scored separately, with required weighing higher.
  • Each gap maps to specific courses and project ideas, ordered by score impact.
  • Signed-in history keeps analyses, resumes, and plans aligned over time.

Questions

Common questions

  • We extract every concrete skill from the role description and split them into required and preferred. Required match counts for 80% of your composite; preferred counts for 20%. Each missing skill shows the exact percentage you'd gain by learning it. The breakdown is always visible, never a black box.

Privacy

Built for job seekers

Your resume is used to generate your report. That's it. Here's what that means in practice.

  • No account needed for your first report

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  • Your resume stays your resume

    We don't share your resume with employers and we don't use it to train public models. Saved analyses are tied to your account only.

  • Built for job seekers, not training data

    SkillBridge exists to help you land the role. Every product decision starts there, including how we handle your data.

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