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Free ATS Resume Checker

Most CVs are read by software before a person sees them. Upload yours and see exactly what that software gets — the missing contact details, the headings it does not recognise, the text layer that is not there.

No PDF handy? Paste your CV text instead
Optional: paste the job advert to check keywords

What we check

Readable text layer

Whether the file contains real text or is an image. An image CV arrives at an employer effectively blank.

Contact details

Whether an email and phone are present, and near the top rather than stranded in a page footer where parsers drop them.

Section headings

Whether Experience, Education and Skills are worded the way classifiers recognise.

Heading damage

Wide letter-spacing makes 'SUMMARY' extract as 'S U M M A R Y', which matches nothing a system searches for.

Achievements vs duties

Whether bullets start with a verb and say what changed, or just restate the job title.

Layout risk

Whether the text looks like it came from two columns, which can interleave and scramble the reading order.

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