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Resume Readability Checker

Initial review takes under a minute. This measures what survives it.

  • 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

  • Word count, estimated pages and average sentence length
  • Bullet count and the share opening with a strong action verb
  • Quantification rate: the share of bullets containing a real figure
  • Passive voice, filler phrases and pronouns, quoted exactly

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.

A first pass over a resume is fast — well under a minute, often a matter of seconds. What survives that pass is whatever can be absorbed at speed: short bullets, verbs at the front, and numbers. What does not survive is dense paragraphs, however good the content buried in them.

The single most useful measure here is the quantification rate. "Improved performance" and "cut page load by 40%" describe the same work, but only one of them is evidence, and a reader can tell instantly which resume they are holding.

Frequently asked questions

How long should a resume be?
One page for under about five years of experience, two pages beyond that. Three pages needs a real reason — academic or research careers have their own conventions. Length is not the goal; this tool reports your estimated pages so you can judge against your own experience level.
What is a good quantification rate?
Aim for at least a third of your bullets to contain a figure — a percentage, a count, a time saved, a revenue or cost number. Not every accomplishment has a number, and inventing one is worse than having none, but most people have far more numbers available than they use.
Why start bullets with action verbs?
Because the first two words are the ones that get read when someone is skimming. "Built", "Led", "Reduced" and "Migrated" land immediately; "Responsible for the management of" delays the actual information past the point where attention has moved on.
How many bullets per role?
Three to five for recent and relevant roles, one or two for older ones. Every bullet competes with the others for a finite amount of attention, so a weak bullet does not merely add nothing — it dilutes the strong ones next to it.

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