Free tool
ATS resume checker
See how well your resume matches a specific job before you apply: your keyword score, the important terms you're missing, and the format problems that make applicant tracking systems misread a resume.
Free, no account needed. Your resume is read once to score it and isn't stored.
What an ATS does with your resume
Most companies receive applications through an applicant tracking system (ATS) such as Greenhouse, Lever, Workday or Ashby. It reads the text of your resume into fields (contact details, roles, dates, education, skills) and lets recruiters search and filter candidates by the terms in the job description. A resume that the system can't read cleanly, or that never uses the job's own words for your skills, is easy to miss, even when you'd be a good fit.
How this checker scores your resume
- Keyword match.It finds the job description's most important terms: skills, tools and phrases that recur, like "data pipelines" or "Kubernetes". Words every job ad uses ("team", "strong", "experience") are ignored. Terms that appear more often count for more, and your score is the share of them your resume covers as whole words.
- Format checks. Whether text can be read from the file at all, length, contact details, standard section headings, dates on your roles, and whether your bullets show measurable results.
The check runs on the text of your file and nothing else: it doesn't use AI, and your resume isn't saved.
How to raise your score honestly
- Use the job's words for skills you have. If the job says "PostgreSQL" and your resume says "SQL databases", name PostgreSQL.
- Show it in context. A term in a bullet ("Cut query time 40% by indexing PostgreSQL tables") is more convincing to a recruiter than the same word in a skills list.
- Keep the layout simple. One column, standard headings (Experience, Education, Skills), and text rather than images or text boxes.
- Never add skills you don't have. A higher score gets you an interview; the interview is where a padded resume falls apart.
What a good score is
Above 75 means your resume already speaks the job's language. Between 50 and 75, a few targeted edits usually close the gap. Below 50, either the role is a stretch or your resume describes your work in different terms than the employer does. Check the missing terms to see which.
Tailoring a resume for every application takes time. JobAgent does it for you: it scores jobs from across the web against your resume, then rewrites your resume for the ones worth applying to, using only experience you actually have.