Check your resume's ATS score in about 30 seconds
Paste in what you're currently sending. You get a score out of 100, a breakdown by category, and a list of fixes ordered by how much each one is worth. The score preview is free and doesn't need a card.
What the score actually measures
Five things, each scored separately, because "your resume is a 74" is useless on its own. The number that matters is the one that's low.
- Contact info. Whether a parser can find your name, email and phone at all. Headers and footers are where these go missing.
- Work experience. Whether each employer, title and date range stays attached to the right role instead of drifting apart.
- Quantified impact. How many of your bullets carry a number. This is the one most resumes fail.
- Skills & keywords. The terms a posting uses that your resume doesn't, weighted by how often the posting repeats them.
- Formatting. Columns, tables, text boxes, and whether the PDF contains real selectable text or a picture of text.
Four steps, none of them homework
Paste it or upload it
Paste the text straight in, or drop a PDF and let the extractor pull it apart. Whatever you're currently sending is the right thing to test.
Add the job posting, or don't
With a posting, you get keyword coverage against that specific role. Without one, you get a general parse-and-phrasing check.
Read the fix list
Issues come back worst first, with the reason and the wording to use instead. Not "improve your bullets" but which bullet, and what's missing from it.
Fix it in the editor
Send the resume into the builder and the same score runs live while you edit, so you can watch each change land.
What an ATS does, and what it doesn't
You will read, on a lot of sites, that applicant tracking systems automatically reject three quarters of resumes before a human sees them. That isn't how they work. An ATS is a database with search on top of it. It stores applications, and recruiters search that store using the terms from the role they're filling.
Which is worse for you, not better. Nobody rejects you; you simply never appear in the search. If your job titles parsed into the wrong fields, or your resume never uses the phrase the recruiter typed, you aren't in the result set, and there is no rejection email to tell you so. That is the failure this checker is looking for.
ATS score questions
What is an ATS score?
Most mid-size and large employers keep applications in an applicant tracking system, and recruiters search that database rather than opening every file. If your PDF parses badly, your experience lands in the wrong fields and you don't come up in the search. An ATS score estimates how cleanly your resume parses and how well it matches what a recruiter would search for.
What is a good ATS score for a resume?
Above 85 is strong. Between 70 and 84 is workable but leaving something on the table, usually keywords. Below 70 normally means a structural problem: a two-column layout, missing section headings, or bullets with no specifics in them. The checker tells you which of those it found.
How do I check my resume's ATS score?
Paste your resume text or upload a PDF, then run the scan. You can score against a specific job posting, or run a general check with no posting at all. Either way you get an instant preview of your score and the top issues.
Is the ATS score checker free?
The preview is free and needs no card: your score and the biggest problems it found. The full report, which adds the category breakdown, searchability, skills coverage, phrasing notes and formatting detail, is part of a paid plan. Plans start at a one-time $4.99 for seven days and don't renew.
Does an employer see my ATS score?
No. It isn't a number any employer generates, sees or stores. It's our estimate of how your resume behaves inside the software they use, which is a different thing from a grade they assign you.
What makes a resume ATS-friendly?
Standard section headings, one column, no tables or text boxes, no content trapped in headers and footers, keywords that match the posting's own wording, and a PDF whose text can actually be selected. That last one catches more people than the rest combined.