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Resume Checker

See your resume the way a recruiter and an applicant tracking system do, with every fix marked in place. Accept, edit or dismiss each one, then tailor it to a job. It all runs in your browser.

This is an example resume. Open yours (PDF or Word) or paste it: it stays in this browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Avery Quinn
Data Analyst
Springfield, IL · avery.quinn@example.com · (555) 010-0142 · linkedin.com/in/avery-quinn-example
SUMMARY
and data analyst with 5 years of experience turning messy data into decisions. who loves dashboards.
EXPERIENCE
Data Analyst, Contoso Retail
Mar 2022 – Present
Built a weekly sales dashboard in Tableau used by 40 store managers, replacing 6 manual spreadsheets
managing the customer churn model and reporting results to leadership
Reports with Python and SQL, which saved the team time every week
with the migration of the data warehouse to Snowflake
A/B tests for the loyalty program
Analyzed returns data and found a sizing problem that cut returns by 12% in one quarter
Junior Analyst, Fabrikam Logistics
–
cleaned and merged shipment data from 3 regional systems into one PostgreSQL database
creating monthly KPI reports for operations managers
Analyzed delivery delays and presented findings to the regional director
answering ad-hoc data requests from the sales team
EDUCATION
B.S. Statistics, Halden State University
2015 – 2019
SKILLS
SQL, , Tableau, Excel, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, A/B testing, data visualization, statistics
71out of 100

Resume checkupExample

Fair. The fixes below will make a visible difference.

3 of 10 bullets lead with a verb · 3 show a number

Covers the job posting53%

11 of 20 skills and terms it names ·

AI rewrites run on Chrome’s built-in AI or your own key. (free models), or see all the ways to set one up. Everything else here works without it.

Score 71 of 100. Impact 37.

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How this works: Method, 10 sources, Checked against 4 worked examples,

How this works

Method

Your resume is read in the browser and checked against rules from ATS vendor docs (columns, tables, text boxes, headers, headings) and career services (action verbs, numbers, active voice, consistent dates). The score has four weighted parts, each listing what cost it points; the weights are our judgement, not an ATS’s. Job matching finds the skills a posting names and which your resume uses. AI rewrites are optional and rejected in code if they add a number, name or skill not in your line.

Sources

How it’s tested

4 worked examples for this page are checked by automated tests before every release: given the inputs, the tool must show the expected answer.

Changes

  • First published: inline suggestions with accept, edit and dismiss, a four-part score, tailoring to a job posting, PDF and Word in, Word and Markdown out, and optional AI rewrites.
  • An opened PDF or Word file is shown as it looks, with the suggestions marked on its own words and accepted fixes shown as tracked changes; the file itself is never changed.

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What recruiters and ATSs actually do

An applicant tracking system (ATS) mostly does two things with a resume: it parses the text into fields (name, jobs, dates, education), and it lets recruiters search everyone who applied. Greenhouse, one of the large ones, documents what breaks parsing: columns, tables, text in headers, footers or text boxes, graphics, and resumes saved as images. Its keyword search needs an exact match, and its auto-reject works on yes-or-no application questions, not on your resume’s text.

The famous “recruiters spend 6 seconds on a resume” comes from a 2012 study of 30 recruiters by TheLadders, a job site, updated in 2018 to 7.4 seconds. It isn’t peer reviewed, but its pattern is useful: a first look goes to your titles, employers, dates and education. That’s why this page checks those are easy to find. The other famous number, “75% of resumes are rejected by ATS”, has no data behind it that we could find.

What does filter people out: a 2021 Harvard Business School and Accenture survey found 88% of employers agree their systems screen out qualified high-skills candidates who don’t match the job description’s exact criteria. So matching the posting’s words, honestly, matters.

Sources

  • Unsuccessful resume parse (Greenhouse Support, 2026). Parsing problems come from columns, tables, headers and footers, text boxes, graphics, image-only files, contact details in the header or footer, and resumes without clear sections. An applicant tracking system vendor’s own help page.
  • Make your resume ATS-friendly (MIT Career Advising & Professional Development). Images, text boxes, tables or fancy graphics may be distorted, ignored or erased; a .docx or .pdf is usually fairly safe. University career service guidance.
  • Talent Filtering (Greenhouse Support). Recruiters can search the full text of resumes for job titles, skills and other keywords, and a keyword must match exactly to appear in the results. An applicant tracking system vendor’s own help page.
  • State of the Job Search 2025 (Jobscan, 2025). Of 384 recruiters surveyed, 76.4% filter candidates by skills and 55.3% by job title. A survey by a company that sells keyword tools: useful, not independent.
  • Eye-tracking study (2018 update) (TheLadders, 2018). Recruiters spent about 7.4 seconds on a first look, mostly on names, current and previous titles and employers, dates and education. The 2012 study (30 recruiters) gave the famous “6 seconds”. A company report with a small sample, not peer reviewed. The pattern (titles, employers, dates, education first) is more useful than the exact seconds.
  • Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent (Harvard Business School and Accenture, 2021). 88% of employers agreed that qualified high-skills candidates are vetted out of their process because they don’t match the exact criteria in the job description. A survey of over 8,000 workers and 2,250 executives.
  • Create a strong resume (Harvard FAS Mignone Center for Career Success). Use active rather than passive language, quantify and qualify, leave out personal pronouns such as I or We, and include an email and phone number. University career service guidance.
  • Resume tips: avoid the passive voice (MIT Career Advising & Professional Development). Identifying and eliminating the passive voice can make a big difference. University career service guidance.
  • Resumes (MIT Career Advising & Professional Development). Quantify if you can: how many people attended, how much money you raised or managed. Experience shouldn’t read like a job description. One page, unless you have extensive experience or an advanced degree. University career service guidance.
  • One-page vs two-page resumes (ResumeGo, 2018). In a hiring simulation with 482 professionals, two-page resumes were preferred 2.3 times as often as one-page ones, more so for experienced roles. A simulation by a resume-writing service, not peer reviewed. Advice on length differs, so length is only ever a warning here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my resume uploaded anywhere?

No. The file is read in your browser, and every check runs there. Nothing is saved unless you choose Save in this browser. If you ask for an AI rewrite with your own key, only the lines being rewritten are sent, with your name, email, phone, address and links removed first, and you see exactly what will be sent before it goes. With Chrome’s built-in AI, nothing leaves your device at all.

Is this an ATS score?

No, and no tool can give you one. Applicant tracking systems are set up differently by every employer, and the big ones mostly parse resumes into fields and let recruiters search them; they rarely reject resumes on their own. This score is a checklist of things recruiters and ATS vendors document: whether a parser can read the text, whether your bullets show actions and results, and whether the structure is standard. Every point it takes off says why.

How is the score worked out?

Four parts, each out of 100: Impact (35% of the total: bullets that start with an action verb and show a number), Clarity (20%: passive voice, “I”, clichés, very long bullets), Structure (20%: contact details, standard sections, consistent dates, length) and Readable by software (25%: columns, tables, text boxes, contact details in headers, images, non-standard headings). The weights are our judgement; each check follows a cited source. Open any part of the score to see what cost it points.

Will the AI make things up?

It’s told not to, and the page checks anyway. A rewrite that adds a number, an employer, a tool or a skill that isn’t already in your line is thrown away before you see it. Where a stronger bullet needs a figure only you know, it writes a placeholder like [X%] for you to fill in, and the page keeps flagging it until you do.

How does tailoring to a job work?

Paste the job posting. The page finds the skills, tools and terms it names, notes which are requirements and which are nice to have, and shows which your resume already uses. Recruiters search their systems for exact words, so using the posting’s spelling helps. It never adds a missing skill for you: add one only if it’s true.

One page or two?

Advice differs. University career services often say one page unless you have extensive experience, and a 2018 hiring simulation found recruiters preferred two pages for experienced candidates. The page only warns past two pages, or when a resume is very short.

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