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Free ATS CV checker

See what an employer's ATS software reads from your CV

Drop in the CV you already send to employers. See the text a parser recovers, the text it drops, and every formatting problem — worst first.

Can a machine read your CV? Find out now.

Choose a PDF or Word file. Your ATS Readability Score and the full list of problems are free.

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  • No sign-up needed
  • Your CV stays on your device
Example report

Example report: What you get, in seconds

This is a sample. Your report is built from your own file.

How it works

  1. Drop in your CV

    Choose the PDF or Word file you already send to employers. To run the check it is read in your browser; your file isn't sent to us.

  2. See what software can read

    We pull the text out of your file and show what software is likely to miss.

  3. See what to fix

    Get every formatting problem we found, worst first, each with what to do about it.

What our ATS checker looks at

  • Contact information

    Phone, email and location a system can find in the body text.

  • Section structure

    Headings a parser recognises, so each part lands in the right place.

  • CV length

    Enough detail to judge you, without burying the important parts.

  • Bullets open with a strong verb

    Bullets that say what you did in the first word.

  • Bullets carry a measurable result

    Numbers that make your results concrete.

  • Bulleted, scannable content

    Separate, scannable lines instead of dense paragraphs.

  • Single-column layout and reading order

    One column, read in the order you wrote it.

  • Suggestions to make it stronger

    Your own bullets and objective, with a rewrite or a question for each. No points involved.

What is an ATS-friendly CV?

An ATS-friendly CV is one that applicant tracking software can turn back into text without losing anything. That means real, selectable text rather than images; section headings a parser recognises, such as Experience and Education; contact details in the body, not in a header or footer; and one column that reads in the order you wrote it.

ATS checker — common questions

· How the score is calculated

An Applicant Tracking System is software employers use to receive and search applications. Before anyone reads your CV, the system has to extract it into text — and layouts built from columns, tables or text boxes can lose parts of it along the way. This page checks whether yours survives that step.

Drop in the PDF or Word file you already send to employers. To run the check it is read in your browser and never uploaded. We extract it the way a parser does, then show you an ATS Readability Score, every formatting problem we found — worst first — what already passed, and the exact text the machine got out of your file.

The check is free and needs no account. The whole thing runs in your browser, so there is nothing to upload for it and nothing to charge you for. Opening your CV in the editor afterwards is a separate step you choose, and that one does need an account.

Yes — an ATS Readability Score: how cleanly applicant tracking software can read your file, as a percentage, with every problem behind it. It is not a ranking from an employer. No applicant tracking system publishes a portable 0–100 score — Greenhouse, for one, says it never uses AI to rate candidates — so ours measures what every system needs first: text it can read. It is scored only out of the checks we could actually run on your file.

85% or above: a machine reads your CV cleanly. 60% to 84%: it reads most of it, but some text is at risk. Below 60%: a machine is losing real text, so the fixes at the top of your list matter most. Only checks we could run on your file count — the ones we could not are listed separately and never counted against you.

Yes. Right after a check, open "Machine view" in your report to see the text a parser recovered from your file, the lines it dropped (such as headers and footers) and any page it found empty. It is the quickest way to spot a missing phone number or a section that came out scrambled.

Yes. It reads Bangla typed in Unicode, and it tells you when software cannot read your Bangla at all. That happens in two ways. The text was typed in an old Bijoy-style font: convert it to Unicode Bangla, or retype it with Avro or your phone's Bangla keyboard. Or the PDF gives the letters back in the wrong order: the result then explains what to try, and how to test the file yourself.

Yes. If you have it as a PDF or Word file, drop it in like any other CV; the result shows exactly what software can read from it. The check reads only that file, in your browser, and changes nothing on your Bdjobs profile.

No, and it tells you so. A scan or a photo holds only pictures of the pages, with no text inside for software to read, so the result explains that instead of giving a score. If the CV still exists in Word or Google Docs, save it from there as a PDF and check that file; if a paper copy is all you have, type it out again first.

Not on this page. Matching needs a job description, and nothing can rank a CV without one. Add the CV to a PromptCV account, then paste a job to get a keyword match against it — building and editing your CV stays free, and a full job match costs 5 AI credits.

Start at the top of the "To fix" list — it is ordered worst first, and every problem comes with what to do about it. Fix your CV wherever you built it, or import it here and fix it in the editor — importing does send the file to us, so the editor can read it. All our templates use real, selectable text.

That is a separate step, and it only happens if you choose it. Importing sends your CV file to us so the editor can read it — the check itself stayed in your browser — and builds an editable copy with everything already filled in, so you don't retype it. You need an account for that part, and it uses 5 AI credits — every account gets free AI credits each month.

What these answers say about applicant tracking systems rests on: Greenhouse · Enhancv (n=25) · Hidden Workers (HBS & Accenture, 2021)

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