What this screen is
Check a Job Fit is where you run the Honest Fit Assessment on your own profile. Paste a job description you are thinking of applying for, and you get the same verdict a recruiter would see, written to you. The screen puts it this way: "Run the same Honest Fit Assessment recruiters use on your profile — your experience, skills and gaps, including your private notes — against a job you’re considering. Only you see the result."
It is the "Check a Job Fit" entry in the dashboard sidebar, directly below "Practice", and it is on every plan. What differs between plans is how many checks you can run (below). Your User Dashboard at a glance: the menu, tiers, flags and banners lists every sidebar entry.
Use it before you apply, not after. If the verdict is "Worth a conversation" or "Probably not your person", the gaps it names are the questions a hiring manager will ask. Either you can answer them, so write the answer into your profile, or the role is not the right one. Check a Job Fit writes nothing to your profile itself.
If your profile is not published yet
The check works on a draft too, so you can test a role before you publish. While your profile is unpublished, an amber note under the intro says: "Your profile isn’t published yet, so this uses what you’ve written so far. A fuller profile gives a sharper verdict." The check runs on whatever you have written, so a thin draft gets a vaguer verdict than a finished profile.
If you have no profile yet, the screen says "You don’t have a profile yet, so there’s nothing to check a job against." with a "Start your profile →" link.
Running a check
The page is headed "How do you rate for this job?", and the box below it is headed "Honest Fit Assessment": "Paste a job description you’re thinking of applying for. You get the same honest verdict a recruiter would — gaps included."
- Paste the full job description into the box. It takes up to 10,000 characters, with a counter underneath. Below 50 characters it says "Paste at least 50 characters for a meaningful assessment".
- Click "Analyze Fit". While the check runs, the button reads "Analyzing…" and a panel shows "Checking your fit…" with how long it has been running. It usually takes up to a minute.
- Read the result. "Clear" empties the box and the result so you can check another job.
The line beside the button shows your allowance: on Free, how many checks your profile has left and that they are "shared with visitors to your profile"; on Pro, "Unlimited on your plan" and the limit for each internet connection. The figures are on Limits and allowances.
If the screen says "Fit assessments are temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.", the assessment is paused across Profiled for a short time. Nothing is wrong with your account.
If it says "This assessment couldn’t be generated. Please try again." or "This response couldn’t be generated right now. Please try again shortly.", no result was produced. Run the check again.
The result
From the top, the result shows:
- A note: "This is written to you. The verdict is the same one a recruiter would see for this job; the wording, and what to do next, is addressed to you."
- The verdict, exactly as a recruiter would get it: "Strong fit", "Worth a conversation" or "Probably not your person", with a headline, an opening statement and the line "AI-generated assessment — decision support, not a decision. May contain mistakes."
- "Strengths", then "Gaps" (each marked "Major" or "Minor", with your level against the requirement), then "Transferable Skills"
- "What to do next": advice written to you, such as whether the role is worth applying for and what to address first
- A card for Practice for this role (below): headed "Next step" on Pro, and marked "Pro feature" on Free
- "Confidence", with a percentage and the reasoning behind it
Occasionally the note reads "This is written exactly as a recruiter would read it — in your voice, speaking to the hiring manager, and the recommendation is advice to them. It’s the same verdict they would see." The advice section is then headed "Recommendation". The verdict is still the one a recruiter would see.
Your private notes inform the verdict here just as they do when a recruiter runs an assessment on your public profile, and the result is shown only to you. What do the fit verdict terms actually mean? defines every label on the result, and How does the fit assessment work, and what information does it see? covers what the assessment reads.
Practice for this role
On Pro, a check you have just run shows a "Next step" card after "What to do next" and before "Confidence": "A mock interview built from this check: the AI interviewer works from the job description and your public profile, and the debrief says how ready you are for this role."
| Verdict | Button |
|---|---|
| Strong fit | "Practice for this role" |
| Worth a conversation | "Practice for this role — rehearse the gaps" |
| Probably not your person | "Rehearse how you’d address the gaps" |
The card appears only while the result of a check you have just run is on screen, not on past checks. On Free it reads "Practice for this role is included in Pro", with a "See Pro" button. Practice for this role: a mock interview built from a job fit check (Pro) covers the rest, including how to practice for an older check.
How many checks you get
Your own checks come out of the same fit-assessment allowance as visitors to your profile; they are not a separate budget.
- On Free, your profile’s allowance is shared between you and everyone who visits your profile, so every check you run is one fewer for a recruiter. Read the line beside the button before you run a batch of checks.
- On Pro, your profile’s allowance is unlimited, whether your Pro is paid, complimentary or earned through Refer & Earn.
- On every plan, the limit that applies to any visitor from one internet connection applies to you too.
The figures for each are on Limits and allowances. When you reach one, the message says which: your profile’s shared allowance is used up (Free only; it frees up as older checks age out), or you have reached the limit for your internet connection. If the line reads "Your allowance couldn’t be loaded just now — try again in a moment", refresh the page in a moment.
Where your past checks go
Under the box, a line points to AI Activity. Your checks are listed there with your visitors’ assessments, each marked "You ran this", and they are not counted in its "Visitor fit assessments" card. AI Activity: what visitors asked and how the AI answered describes that screen. Candidate Insights (Pro) leaves your own checks out entirely, because they show what you tested, not what visitors concluded.
Only checks run from this screen are marked. An assessment you run on your own public profile page is logged like a visitor’s: no "You ran this" label, and it counts in the visitor card and in Insights. Use Check a Job Fit for your own testing so your visitor numbers stay honest.
Common mistakes
- Spending a Free allowance on yourself. Every check you run is one fewer for your visitors. Check the roles that matter, not every ad you see.
- Reading a draft verdict as final. A thin draft gives a vague verdict. Fill in the private context fields on your roles, then check again.
- Testing on your public profile page. It works, but the run is logged as a visitor assessment and muddies your AI Activity and Insights numbers.
- Chasing a Strong fit. If every check comes back Strong fit, that may simply reflect the jobs you chose; it can also be worth checking that your Gaps tab is complete. An honest "Probably not your person" for the wrong role is the tool doing its job.
Finishing
- You pasted a real job ad you are considering
- You read the gaps the verdict named, not only the verdict
- Each gap is either answered in your profile or declared on Tab 5 — Gaps
- On Free, you checked the allowance line before running another check
- On Pro, for a role worth rehearsing, you used the "Next step" card while the result was on screen
- You found the check in AI Activity, marked "You ran this"
Related
- Practice for this role: a mock interview built from a job fit check (Pro)
- How does the fit assessment work, and what information does it see?
- What do the fit verdict terms actually mean?
Last verified: 2026-10-21