Paste the job posting and your answer. See which of the posting's own words you never used, and decide one at a time whether you have a true sentence that uses them.
On most large applications the first read is automated. It is not judging whether you are good, it is checking whether your answer is about the same thing the posting is about. You cannot spot the gap by rereading your own answer, because you know what you meant. Putting the two texts side by side makes it obvious.
Requirements and responsibilities are the part that counts. Boilerplate is ignored.
The one you would really submit. A live word budget shows the usual 250-word limit.
Which of the posting's words you used, which you did not, and what to do about each.
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On most large applications now, the first read is automated. It is not judging whether you are good. It is checking, crudely, whether your answer is about the same thing the posting is about, whether it is structured, and whether it is the right length.
That sounds cynical and it is actually good news, because it is the most gameable part of the whole process and almost nobody bothers. The fix is not keyword stuffing, which reads badly to the human who comes next. The fix is noticing which of the posting's own words you never used, and deciding one at a time whether you have a true sentence that uses them.
You cannot see that gap by rereading your own answer, because you know what you meant. Put the two texts side by side and it becomes obvious.
Step one
Paste the job posting
The requirements and responsibilities are the part that matters. You can paste the whole thing, the tool ignores the boilerplate.
Step two
Paste your answer
The one you would actually submit. Most screening boxes want 150 to 250 words, so that is the budget shown below.