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Find out what your resume is missing.

Paste a job description, drop in your resume, and see which of the job's requirements your resume actually evidences — and which it doesn't.

Free no signup Instant no waiting Private nothing is uploaded
How the checker works Requirements pulled from a job posting are matched against a resume. Meta Ads, Google Analytics and A/B testing are found; SQL and Looker are missing. The result is a findability score out of 100. THE POSTING ASKS FOR YOUR RESUME SHOWS Meta Ads Meta Ads Google Analytics Google Analytics SQL not found Looker not found A/B testing A/B testing FINDABILITY 62 /100 Two rooms over 3 requirements missing · 2 named but not shown

Paste the whole posting. Requirements, responsibilities, the lot — the more complete it is, the better the read.

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PDF, DOCX or TXT. It's read on your device and never sent to us.

Drop your resume here, or click to choose PDF · DOCX · TXT — up to 5 MB

Nothing is stored. Reload the page and it's gone.

Our point of view

Most ATS systems don't reject you. They fail to find you.

Workday, Greenhouse and Lever are databases, not judges. They file your resume into fields and let a recruiter search it. Say "paid social" where the posting says "Meta Ads" and you weren't rejected — you just weren't in the results. Nobody made a decision about you at all.

How the score works

Parse quality — 25. Can a machine read it: contact block, headings, dates, columns.

Coverage — 75. Each requirement weighted by how badly the job wants it (must ×3, day-to-day ×2, nice ×1), then scored 1.0 if you show it, 0.7 if you only list it, 0 if it's absent.

What it won't do

Won't rewrite your resume — it suggests wording, you copy what you like.

Won't claim experience you don't have. Gaps go in the gap report, never into a suggestion.

Won't match another tool's number, and won't get you the interview.

Single-column resumes parse correctly; two-column resumes do not Left: a single-column layout where every line runs full width and is read in order. Right: a two-column layout with a photo and sidebar, where a parser reads straight across and interleaves the sidebar into the job history. READ IN ORDER SIDEBAR GETS INTERLEAVED Same person, same career. The one on the right reads back as every heading followed by a fragment of the sidebar.
Free template

A resume layout that survives being read by a machine.

The layout on the right is the one design tools push, and it is the single most common reason a good candidate goes missing. A parser reads straight across the page, so the sidebar lands in the middle of your job history and your name ends up filed as a job title.

This is our template, in the boring format that works. Fill in the brackets, delete the note at the top, save as PDF or DOCX. It scores 25/25 on the parse check above before you have typed a word.

  • One column. No sidebars, no text boxes, no tables.
  • Contact details in the body of the document, never in the page header — plenty of parsers never read headers.
  • Plain headings: Experience, Education, Skills. Not "My Journey".
  • Four-digit years, so a timeline can be built.
  • No photo. It helps nothing here and is illegal to consider in several countries.
Questions

Before you paste anything in.

01

Where does my resume go?

Nowhere. Your file is opened and read inside your own browser using open-source libraries — it is never uploaded to us or to anyone else. The whole check runs on your device, which is also why it's instant. Close the tab and nothing survives.

02

Is this an official ATS score?

No such thing exists. No applicant tracking system publishes a scoring formula, and any tool telling you it knows your "real" ATS score is guessing and charging you for it. Ours is our own measure of findability, fully explained above.

03

What file types work?

PDF, DOCX and plain TXT. Old .doc files won't open — re-save as DOCX or export a PDF. Apple Pages files need File → Export To → PDF first. If anything fails, you can always paste your text in directly and the tool works exactly the same.

04

It says my PDF has no text in it.

Then it's a scan or a photo — a picture of a document rather than a document. Real parsers can't read those either, which is worth knowing before you send it anywhere. Export a fresh PDF from your original file, or paste the text in.

05

Do I have to give you my email?

No. Every result is on screen whether you hand over an email or not, and there's no gate, no blur, no "unlock". If you'd like the report mailed to you so you have it later, you can ask for that — but it's an offer, not a toll.

06

Can't I just stuff my skills list with keywords?

You can, and it won't help much. A term that only ever appears in a keyword blob is capped at 0.7 no matter how often you repeat it, so padding can't carry you far — and everything you listed without backing up gets shown back to you under "named, but not backed up". Recruiters discount lists for the same reason.

07

The job wants someone in another city. Does that hurt my score?

No. Location, visa, notice period and shift requirements are yes-or-no facts about the job, not flaws in your resume, so they're pulled out into a separate Eligibility list and left out of the arithmetic entirely. Missing several stated must-haves does cap your band though — a flattering number on a job you're not qualified for helps nobody.

Where this is going

The resume is the easy half.

Getting found is a keyword problem — fixable in an afternoon with what's above. Getting hired increasingly isn't. More postings every quarter expect you to have actually built something with AI, and not only in engineering roles; we've watched it arrive in marketing, operations, finance and HR listings over the last year.

That's what we teach, from zero. No code, no mathematics, and you finish holding a working project at a public URL rather than a certificate in a drawer.