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Free ATS resume checker
Score your résumé the way an applicant tracking system reads it.
The overview
A little less work. A better starting point.
Drop in a PDF or Word résumé and get an ATS score out of 100 in a couple of seconds, with no sign-up and no upload. The file is opened and scored inside your own browser tab, so nothing reaches a server and there is nothing for us to store, sell or leak.
Try it here
Run the check on this page.
The same scoring Vulture uses, inside this tab: nothing is uploaded. The full report is one click away in Vulture.
01 / Capabilities
What it does
A score, then the reasons
Completeness, contact details, quantified impact, action verbs, brevity, dates, skills coverage and formatting are each scored separately, so the number always comes with somewhere to start.
Matched against a real posting
Paste a job description and the score is recalculated on keyword coverage: which required skills are missing, which are only implied, and which appear in the wrong section to count.
Parse safety
Tables, text boxes, columns, headers, images, symbols and unusual fonts are the things that break a parser. Each one is checked and named before it costs you a screen.
It knows when it is not a résumé
Drop in a story, an invoice or a research paper and it says so instead of inventing a score. A number attached to the wrong document is worse than no number.
Nothing is uploaded
PDF and Word extraction, parsing and scoring all run in the browser tab. No account, no email, no file on a server, no retention policy to trust.
02 / The workflow
How to use it
- Open the free ATS check and drop in your résumé as PDF, DOCX, TXT or Markdown.
- Read the ATS meter: above 80 is strong, 60 to 80 is worth a pass, below 60 will struggle.
- Create a free local profile to see the full report: every missing keyword, every weak bullet, every parse warning.
- Paste the job description you are aiming at and score again for that specific posting.
- Fix the flagged lines in the builder and export a text-layer PDF an ATS can actually read.
03 / Good to know
Questions, answered.
Is the ATS check really free?
Yes. The score needs no account, no email and no card. A free local profile unlocks the detailed report and the résumé builder, and that is free too; signing up for one takes a name, an email verified once, and a passphrase, and your résumés stay on your device.
Do you keep my résumé?
No. The file never leaves your browser. Extraction, parsing and scoring all happen in the tab, so there is no copy on our side at any point.
Which file types work?
PDF, DOCX, TXT and Markdown, up to 8 MB. A scanned or image-only PDF has no text layer to read, so export a text PDF or upload the Word file instead.
Does a high score guarantee an interview?
No. It means the résumé parses cleanly and covers the language of the posting, which is what gets it in front of a person. What happens next is down to the content and the market.
Which ATS does it imitate?
It checks the behaviour common to Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Taleo and iCIMS: text extraction order, section detection, date parsing and keyword matching, rather than one vendor's private scoring.
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