Free tool for candidates

ATS resume checker.

Upload your resume and the advert you are applying to. You will see the score, the keywords you are missing, and — usually the surprise — which of your details the parser could not read at all.

Free. No account. Takes about 30 seconds.

How to read it

The parsed fields matter more than the score.

Most advice about applicant tracking systems is about keywords, and most real failures are about extraction. If the checker cannot find your phone number, neither can the recruiter searching for you — and no amount of keyword tuning fixes a two-column layout that swallowed your job titles.

So read the bottom section first. Anything marked not found is a formatting problem, and formatting problems are cheap to fix: one column, real text rather than images, dates as text next to the role, and a standard heading above each section.

Then look at the missing terms — but treat them as prompts rather than a shopping list. The useful ones are the things you did do and described in different words. The rest you should leave out, because a resume that clears the filter and collapses in the interview has cost you more than it saved.

Scope

What an AI resume analyzer can and cannot tell you.

It can tell you what a machine extracted, which requirements from the advert it could evidence, and which of its terms never appear in your document. Those are mechanical facts, and they are worth knowing before you send anything.

It cannot tell you whether you will get the job. No analyzer sees the other applicants, the budget, the manager who wanted an internal candidate, or the two-line note that got someone a referral. Treat the score as a check that your document works, not as a prediction — a resume that reads cleanly and honestly has done its job, and the rest of the process is not a formatting problem.

Questions candidates ask

What is an ATS resume checker?
A tool that reads your resume the way an applicant tracking system would — extracting the text, pulling out fields, and comparing what it found against the requirements in a job advert. It shows you what survived the machine, which is usually less than what you can see on the page.
Will my resume pass an applicant tracking system?
Most modern systems do not reject on keywords automatically — that story is more common than the practice. What actually happens is that a recruiter searches and filters, so anything the parser failed to read is effectively invisible. The fix is rarely more keywords; it is usually a simpler layout so the parser recovers your dates, titles and contact details.
Should I add the missing keywords?
Only the ones that are true. Terms you cannot talk about for two minutes get you through a filter and into an interview you will lose. Use the missing list to spot things you genuinely did but described differently, which is the common case.
Do you keep my resume?
No. The file is processed to produce the readout and is not attached to any account, because there is no account. Nothing here feeds a candidate database and no recruiter sees what you upload.
Why does it say a field was not found?
Because the layout hid it from text extraction. Multi-column designs, text inside images, headers and footers, and skills drawn as bar charts are the usual causes. If your phone number or your most recent job title is not found, that matters considerably more than keyword coverage.
Is it really free?
Yes, and there is no email wall. We build hiring software for employers; this exists because the same machinery that scores applications for our customers is useful to the people on the other side of it.

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