§ The result
3 points separate Jobscan and Resume Worded.
Within the Resume AI cohort, Jobscan edges Resume Worded by 3 points under rubric js-v1.0, 63 to 60. Jobscan leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Application Honesty, while Resume Worded leads 1, including Data & Credential Safety, and 1 is level. Data & Credential Safety is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Resume Worded — Jobscan 52, Resume Worded 64, on a 20% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage Resume Worded holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Jobscan
Jobscan scores a job seeker's resume against a specific job description on a 0-100 ATS match rate, flags missing hard- and soft-skill keywords and ATS formatting problems, and bundles a resume builder, LinkedIn optimizer, cover-letter generator, application tracker and a review-gated Auto Apply that drafts answers to ATS-hosted application forms.
Vendor profile
Resume Worded
Resume Worded scores an uploaded resume or LinkedIn profile PDF out of 100 against its own recruiter-derived checklist and returns line-by-line feedback, AI rewrite suggestions and job-description keyword matching, but does not search for or submit job applications.
§ The record
Jobscan and Resume Worded are both filed under Resume & profile AI. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Jobscan | Resume Worded |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2013 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Jobscan 52 · Resume Worded 64
2.4 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Jobscan 68 · Resume Worded 58
2.0 weighted points to Jobscan
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Jobscan 45 · Resume Worded 34
1.3 weighted points to Jobscan
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Jobscan 78 · Resume Worded 72
0.9 weighted points to Jobscan
10% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Jobscan 48 · Resume Worded 42
0.6 weighted points to Jobscan
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Jobscan 72 · Resume Worded 66
0.5 weighted points to Jobscan
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobscan minus Resume Worded.
| Category | Weight | Jobscan | Resume Worded | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 52 | 64 | -12 | -2.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 78 | 72 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 75 | 75 | - | - |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 45 | 34 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +0.6 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 72 | 66 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 63 (D) | 60 (D) | +3 | +2.9 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Jobscan | Resume Worded | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Jobscan has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Resume Worded has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Jobscan sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Jobscan, across 6 distinct source domains, and 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Jobscan last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Resume Worded last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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