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ATS Resume Checker

See your resume the way an applicant tracking system sees it — and get the specific fixes, not generic advice.

  • Deterministic — the same document always gives the same result
  • Every finding quotes the line of your resume that triggered it
  • Parsed in memory and discarded. Never stored, never trained on

Add your resume

Drop a resume here, or click to choose a file PDF, DOCX, DOC or TXT · up to 10 MB
…or paste the resume text instead
Deterministic analysis. Nothing is uploaded to a model, and your document is not stored.

What this tool gives you

  • An overall ATS score from 0–100, broken into five weighted components
  • Every issue ranked by severity, with the exact text from your resume that triggered it
  • A concrete fix for every single finding — never "optimise your resume"
  • Detection of the failures that silently sink applications: scanned PDFs, tables, multi-column layouts, unparseable contact details

How it works

  1. Add your resume

    Upload a PDF or DOCX resume, or paste the text directly. Nothing is stored — the analysis runs on the document you submit and the file is discarded.

  2. The engine analyses it

    A deterministic engine reads the document and extracts the facts — structure, skills, dates, evidence. No language model is involved, so the same document always produces the same result.

  3. Read the evidence behind every result

    You get the findings with the reasoning attached: what was found, where it was found in the document, and what to change. No score arrives without an explanation.

Most resumes are read by software before a person ever sees them. That software does one job: turn your document into structured fields — name, email, employer, dates, skills. When it cannot, the application does not get rejected so much as it simply fails to exist. A two-column PDF that looks immaculate on screen can extract as your skills list spliced through the middle of your work history.

This checker runs the same deterministic engine HireSagar uses inside its Hiring Intelligence Platform. It reads your document, grades five things that decide whether a machine can process it, and shows you the passage behind every conclusion. There is no model guessing at your resume and no score you cannot trace.

Your resume is never stored. The file is parsed in memory and discarded when the response is sent — no account is created, no candidate record is written, and neither the file nor the analysis is retained. The only thing we record is that this tool ran, with nothing from your document attached.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good ATS score?
Above 85 means a parser will read your document cleanly and find everything it looks for. 70–85 means it will work but you are leaving something on the table. Below 50 usually means one structural problem — a scanned PDF, a table-based layout, or missing contact details — is doing most of the damage, and fixing that single thing moves the score more than any amount of wordsmithing.
Does a higher ATS score mean I am a better candidate?
No, and it is important to be clear about that. This score measures how well a machine can read your resume, not how good you are. An outstanding engineer with a two-column PDF will score badly here — and that is exactly the useful answer, because it is what the applicant tracking system is going to do to them.
Is the score generated by AI?
No. Every component is computed by deterministic rules over your document's own text. The same file always produces the same score, and each finding carries the literal excerpt that triggered it. Nothing is inferred by a language model, so there is nothing to hallucinate.
Do you keep my resume?
No. The file is parsed in memory and discarded as soon as the analysis is returned. No account is created, no candidate record is written, the file is never stored, and nothing from it is ever used to train a model. We do record that this tool ran — the tool name and nothing else — so we know which tools are worth maintaining.
Which file formats can I upload?
PDF, DOCX, DOC and plain text. If your PDF was produced by scanning a printed page, the checker will tell you — that case is worth knowing about, because it is the single most damaging problem a resume can have.

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