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Resume Score Checker

One number, fully decomposed — so you know what to fix first.

  • 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

  • Your score out of 100, plus the band it falls into
  • The five component scores and the weight each one carries
  • Your single highest-impact fix, calculated from which component is furthest below its weight
  • The full finding list behind each component

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 score with no breakdown is useless: it tells you that something is wrong without telling you what. This tool shows the arithmetic. Five components — machine readability, contact details, structure, content quality and consistency — each carry a fixed weight, and the overall score is their weighted sum. Nothing is hidden and nothing is fudged.

Because the weights are published, you can see where your effort pays. If machine readability is at 40 and carries a quarter of the score, that is 15 points sitting in one fixable problem; polishing bullet wording, by contrast, moves a component worth a fifth by a few points at best.

Frequently asked questions

How is the resume score calculated?
It is the weighted sum of five deterministic components: machine readability (25%), contact details (20%), structure and completeness (20%), content quality (20%) and consistency (15%). Each component starts at 100 and loses points for specific, named findings. Every deduction is shown.
Why did my score change after a small edit?
Because the rules are specific rather than fuzzy. Adding a parseable phone number, or giving one role an explicit date range, can each close a named finding and recover its exact point value. That is the intended behaviour — you should be able to see the effect of a change.
Is this the same score recruiters see?
No — and the distinction matters. This measures your document. Recruiters using HireSagar see a fit score for a specific role, which weighs your skills, experience and education against that job's stated requirements. Use Resume vs JD Match to see that view.
Can I score the same resume twice and get different numbers?
No. The engine is fully deterministic — the same file always produces the same score. There is no sampling, no model, and no randomness anywhere in it.

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HireSagar runs this same deterministic engine across every applicant to every role you have open — scoring and ranking each candidate against that specific job, verifying career timelines, flagging risk, and generating interview questions specific to the person in front of you. Free plan available; no card required.

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