Free résumé check

Can software read your résumé?

Paste your résumé and find out what an applicant tracking system actually gets: which sections come through, what arrives scrambled, and exactly what to change. Takes about a minute.

Nothing you paste is saved — it’s read once to write the answer, then gone. No account needed.

How it works

  1. Step 1

    You paste the text

    Open your résumé, select all, copy, paste. What you can copy out of the file is what an applicant tracking system gets when it reads it — so pasting is the test, not a shortcut around one.

  2. Step 2

    We read it the way software does

    Six checks: contact details, section headings, dates, job titles and employers, bullet structure, and layout damage — the scrambled words and run-together columns that mean a multi-column design collapsed on the way in.

  3. Step 3

    You get the specific fixes

    A score for readability, what each check found in your document, and the exact edits to make. No keyword padding, because that would be guessing at a search we can’t see.

Questions

Is this an ATS score?
Not the kind you’re used to. Most "ATS scores" mix two different things: whether software can read your file, and how many words from a job posting you echoed back. Only the first is measurable from your résumé alone, so that’s the only thing this scores. The second depends on a recruiter’s search terms, which nobody outside the company can see.
Why paste text instead of uploading my PDF?
Because we’d read it too well. A modern AI model can make sense of a PDF that a fifteen-year-old parser turns to mush, so scoring the file directly would grade a document that doesn’t exist on the employer’s end. The text you can copy out of your own file is a fair approximation of what their software receives.
What score should I be aiming for?
75 or above means the document survives reading cleanly and the effort is better spent on what it actually says. Below 50 means something structural is breaking — usually columns, a header, or a text box — and it’s worth rebuilding in one plain column before you send it anywhere else.
Do you keep my résumé?
No. The text is read once to write the answer and is never written to a database or a file. There’s no account, no email required, and nothing to delete afterwards.
Will fixing this get me more interviews?
It removes a reason to be dropped before anyone reads you; it doesn’t create a reason to be picked. A clean résumé still lands in a pile of clean résumés. That part is a different problem, and it’s the one we built the rest of Skillfolio for.