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Is your resume ATS-friendly?

Most companies screen resumes with software before a human ever looks. Paste or upload yours for an instant check, with specific fixes. Free, and nothing is stored.

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What is an ATS, and why does it matter?

An applicant tracking system (ATS) is software most mid-size and large companies use to collect, scan, and rank resumes before a recruiter sees them. If the system can't read your resume cleanly, or it misses the keywords a recruiter searches for, you can be filtered out before a human is ever involved.

The good news: making a resume ATS-friendly is mostly about clarity, not tricks. Use a clean single-column layout, standard section headings, real text instead of images, strong action verbs, quantified results, and the same language the job posting uses where it honestly applies to you. This free checker flags where your resume falls short on those signals.

Note: this tool gives a heuristic check based on common ATS best practices. No checker can perfectly predict every system, and beating the filter is only step one — reaching a real human is what gets you hired.