ATS Resume Checker

An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is software that parses your resume into structured fields — name, dates, skills, job titles — before a human ever opens it. Most companies above a certain size use one. If the parser can't read your resume correctly, it doesn't matter how good the content is.

What actually breaks in an ATS parser

• Image-based PDFs. If your resume is a screenshot or was exported in a way that isn't real selectable text, the parser sees nothing at all.
• Multi-column layouts done wrong. Some parsers read straight across the page, so a two-column resume can interleave your left and right columns into gibberish.
• Tables and text boxes. Content inside a table cell or floating text box is often skipped or reordered incorrectly.
• Creative section headings. "My Journey" instead of "Experience" can fail to map to the field the parser expects.
• Missing or malformed contact info. An invalid email format or a missing phone number can mean a recruiter's search never surfaces you at all.

What this tool actually checks

This isn't an AI guessing whether your resume "feels" good — it's 17 deterministic, rule-based checks across three categories, the same score every time for the same input:

Why a resume with no contact info can't score 70

The score isn't a simple average — a missing or invalid email caps your maximum possible score at 50, and a missing name caps it at 40, regardless of how well everything else scores. Contact info is the one thing that makes the rest of the resume reachable, so it's weighted like it matters more, because it does.

What it deliberately doesn't do

Employment gaps are flagged as an informational note only — never scored, never penalized. Gaps are common and often unremarkable, and this tool isn't in the business of guessing why yours exists. And missing keywords from a job description are always shown as suggestions to consider, never inserted automatically — keyword stuffing gets you rejected by a human reader even when it slips past the bot.