ATS Resume Checker
Scan your resume against real Applicant Tracking System rules and get an instant score, keyword gaps and the exact fixes that get you past the filter.
STEP 01 — RESUME
WHAT WE SCAN
- ATS Parse Test: Simulates how major ATS systems read your file
- Keyword Analysis: Matches your skills against the job description
- Section Detection: Verifies standard resume sections are found
- Format Audit: Flags columns, tables, graphics, font issues
Full ATS Analysis Ready
Upload your resume to see your ATS score, which job-post keywords it matches, and the formatting issues to fix.
How the ATS score is calculated
The scan extracts text from your file the way an applicant tracking system does, then scores it across seven dimensions. The result is a 0–100 score with a grade: 90+ Excellent, 80–89 Strong, 70–79 Good, 60–69 Fair, 40–59 Needs work, below 40 Will not pass. Three hard problems cap the score regardless of everything else: a PDF with no text layer (a scan or an image) is capped at 20, a file where fewer than 60% of fields survive extraction is capped at 45, and contact details that live only in the page header or footer — which many parsers skip — cap it at 55.
Parseability
Whether the file has a real text layer and how much of your content survives extraction — text inside tables, text boxes, columns and images is what gets lost.
Keyword & role fit
How closely your skills, titles and terminology match the target role, and — when you paste a job description — the posting's own required and preferred terms.
Section structure
Whether standard sections (Experience, Education, Skills, Summary) are present, labelled with names a parser recognises, and in an order it expects.
Content impact
The share of bullets that open with an action verb and contain a measurable result, versus duty statements and filler.
Timeline integrity
Dates present and consistently formatted on every position, in reverse-chronological order, with unexplained gaps and overlaps flagged.
Contact hygiene
Email, phone and location in the document body as plain text — not in a header, footer or icon — and a professional email address.
Length & density
Word count and page count against the norm for your experience level, plus font size and margin checks that affect both parsing and readability.
ATS checker FAQs
What is an applicant tracking system, and does every employer use one?
An ATS is the software employers use to collect applications, extract the text from each resume into fields, and rank or filter candidates before a person reads anything. Most large and mid-size employers and nearly all job boards use one; small companies often do not. The formatting rules an ATS imposes are also what makes a resume easy for a human to skim, so optimising for it rarely costs you with a recruiter.
Why does the scan need a paid plan?
The deep scan renders your document, re-extracts it and measures what survives, then runs keyword analysis against the role and, optionally, an AI review of the weakest bullets. Those steps consume server and model credits per scan. Building, editing and importing your resume are free; the scan is included with Pro alongside PDF and DOCX export.
Is my resume stored or shared?
Scoring runs in your browser from the extracted text. For resumes built here, a compact score snapshot is stored with the document so the dashboard does not re-score it on every visit; it is recomputed whenever the content or the rules change. Your document is not shared with third parties or used to train models.
What score do I need?
Aim for 80 or above (grade A). Below 60, the ranked fixes usually point at one structural cause — a two-column layout, missing dates, contact details in the header — that lifts the score by twenty points on its own once corrected. A perfect 100 is not the goal; a resume with no parse failures and the posting's key terms present is.
Should I paste the job description?
Yes, whenever you have one. Without it the keyword dimension scores against a general lexicon for the role; with it, the scan compares your resume to the exact terms the employer wrote, which is what their ATS will do. The missing-keywords list then tells you precisely what to add — where it is true.
Can I fix the problems here or do I need the builder?
The scratchpad on the results page lets you rewrite bullets and watch the score update live. To change layout, sections or dates you edit the resume itself — the report links each fix to the relevant step in the builder, and resumes built there export in ATS-safe templates.