ATS Resume Checker
Find the common problems that stop software reading your resume.
- Runs in your browser
- No upload required
- Free, no signup
Resume PDF
No file chosen.
Scans and design-tool exports often contain no text layer at all. If extraction finds nothing, paste the text instead — parsers have the same problem with those files.
Or paste the text
Pasting is the most reliable route, and it works for Word or Google Docs exports too.
ATS Compatibility Analysis
This is a compatibility analysis, not a score and not a prediction. No outside tool knows the ranking rules of any particular hiring system, and those rules differ between companies. What follows is what could be checked, and what was found.
Potential Issues
Ordered by how much they usually matter to a parser.
Most frequent terms
What a keyword search would find most often. If a term you care about is missing here, it is missing from the file too — see the Resume Keyword Matcher for a job-specific view.
Nothing on this page is stored or transmitted. Reloading clears the analysis.
Writing lines that read well to a person and a parser
The most common cause of a weak experience section is a sentence that describes a duty rather than an action. A useful shape is action + technology + result, with the result only included when you actually know it.
Do not invent a number to fill the "result" slot. A specific, honest action is stronger than an invented percentage, and it is the one thing you will be asked about in the interview.
Your resume is processed locally in your browser whenever possible. We do not store your resume data on our server.
Applicant tracking systems are not clever. They read the text layer of your file, look for recognisable section headings and pull out dates, job titles and contact details. Most rejection happens because something simple went wrong: the text was an image, the headings were unusual, or two columns got read in the wrong order.
Drop in a PDF or paste your resume text and this checker runs a fixed set of rules over it, then tells you exactly what it found and why it matters. It is a compatibility analysis, not a score, and it will never claim to know whether you will be hired.
How to use this tool
- Upload a PDF of your resume, or paste the text if you would rather not use a file.
- Press Analyse Resume to run the checks.
- Read the compatibility list first — these are the checks that matter most to a parser.
- Work through the potential issues. Each one explains what was found and how to fix it.
- Fix the problems in your resume, then run the check again.
Frequently asked questions
Is this an official ATS score?
No, and you should be sceptical of anything that claims to be one. No outside tool has access to the ranking rules of Workday, Greenhouse, Taleo or any other system, and those rules differ between companies and change over time. What you get here is a deterministic compatibility analysis based on how parsers generally behave.
Is my resume uploaded to your server?
No. The PDF is read in your browser — text extraction happens locally in JavaScript — and the file is never transmitted. You can disconnect from the network after the page loads and the checker still works.
My PDF has no readable text. Why?
The file is probably a scan, an export from a design tool that drew text as curves, or an image saved with a .pdf extension. Parsers have exactly the same problem, so it is worth fixing: export a text-based PDF from Word, Google Docs or the Huviena resume builder instead.
Does a two-column layout really break parsing?
Sometimes. Many parsers read left to right across the whole page width, which interleaves two columns into nonsense. Others detect the column boundary correctly. Because the outcome is unpredictable, single-column is the safer choice when you do not know which system will read your file.
Should I add keywords the checker suggests?
Only where they describe something you genuinely did. Padding a resume with terms you cannot discuss in an interview causes more harm than a missing keyword, and the checker never recommends doing it.