Free ATS resume checker, no sign-up

How the ATS check works

An applicant tracking system (ATS) reads your resume as plain text and looks for the words in the job ad: skills, tools, certifications, years of experience and the job title. Recruiters then search that same database by keyword. Our checker does the same thing, in your browser:

1. It extracts the text from your PDF or Word file the way an ATS would.
2. It pulls the skills and requirements out of the job ad (ignoring the company blurb and benefits).
3. It compares the two and shows what's found, what's missing, and whether each missing item is a must-have or a nice-to-have.
4. It checks the file itself: columns, tables, text boxes, images, fonts and page count, the things that make an ATS scramble or skip your content.

What "no sign-up, no upload" means here

There is no account, no email field and no server. The file is read by your browser and never transmitted. You can scan as many times as you like, for as many jobs as you like.

What an ATS actually penalises (and what it doesn't)

• Does hurt: two-column layouts and tables (text comes out in the wrong order), text in images or icons (invisible to the ATS), text boxes in Word, scanned PDFs (no selectable text).
• Doesn't matter as much as people think: repeating a keyword ten times, fancy fonts in a text PDF, or a third page. An ATS reads all of it; recruiters are the ones who skim.

Which file type should I upload?

A text-based PDF exported from Word or Google Docs is the safest. Word files work too, and the checker flags tables and text boxes in them.

Is the score what the employer's ATS will show?

No tool can promise that: every ATS is different and most don't show a score at all. Treat the number as a guide and the missing-keywords list as the part to act on.