Keyword gap
Every term the posting wants, and every one you are missing
Paste a job description and we line your resume up against it — matched terms, near-misses, and the skills the posting keeps repeating that appear nowhere in your file.
Free ATS Resume Checker
See your resume the way an ATS does.
Upload your resume and get an instant ATS score, a preview of exactly what applicant tracking systems parse out of your file, and the issues costing you interviews. No signup to see your score.
- Score in seconds
- No account needed
- Your file is never sold
How the scan works
Four real steps, not a fake progress bar
The analysis screen shows you exactly these stages while they run. It takes a few seconds because there is genuinely something to do.
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Parse the file
We pull the raw text out of your PDF in reading order — including what gets scrambled by columns, tables, and text boxes.
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Detect the sections
Contact details, work history, education, skills. If a parser cannot find a section, a recruiter searching for it will not either.
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Match the keywords
Skills and titles are compared against the role — and against your pasted job description when you add one.
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Check the formatting
Columns, graphics, headers, date formats, and file structure — the mechanical things that quietly break a parse.
Parse simulation
Your resume looks great. Here is what the parser gets.
The choices that impress a person — columns, icons, charts, text boxes — are the same ones that quietly delete information on the way into a recruiter's database. This is the check almost nobody has seen run on their own file.
Contact details inside a graphic
Two-column layout
Skills drawn as bars
The candidate record it built
Sarah Chen
Senior Product DesignerAWARDS 2024
sidebar text ran into the job title
Contact
Partly read- Phone +1 555 0134
- Email Nothing extracted the address only exists inside a graphic
Work history
2 of 2 roles found- Lead Designer, Northwind 2021 — Present
- Product Designer, Vela 19–21 the dates cannot be read as a range, so this role will not show up in date filters
Skills
Section missing- All skills Nothing extracted the skills are drawn as bars, and a parser cannot read a picture
Education
Read, but merged- Degree BSc Design 2015 Certifications AWS two columns were flattened into one line
- 2 sections lost entirely
- 6 keywords never reached the parser
- 3 fields degraded or merged
The example above shows the parse failures we see most often. Run your own file to find out which of them apply to you.
Inside the report
A score is the headline. This is the story.
Five reads on the same file. The score and a parse preview are free; the full fix list opens with a free account — no card, ever, for the report itself.
Transparent scoring
Here is the whole formula
Most resume scores are a black box, which is exactly why people distrust them. Ours is six weighted components, published, and every point you lose is traced back to a specific line in your file.
And one thing we will not tell you
No applicant tracking system auto-rejects a resume at a fixed score. Anyone who tells you 75% is a hard gate is selling you something. Treat the number as a measure of how much of your resume actually reaches a human, and how closely it matches the role you picked — around 75% on a tailored scan is a healthy place to stop editing.
- Parse integrity 25%
How much of your resume survives extraction, in the right reading order.
- Keyword & skill match 25%
Overlap with the target role, weighted toward terms the posting repeats.
- Section completeness 15%
Whether contact, experience, education, and skills are each findable.
- Formatting & structure 15%
Columns, tables, graphics, headings, and date consistency.
- Impact & quantification 12%
Whether bullets state ownership and measurable outcomes.
- Consistency & hygiene 8%
Tense, capitalisation, spelling, and repeated phrasing.
- Total 100%
Where your resume actually goes
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It goes straight to the analyzer
Your browser posts the PDF directly to the Rezoom app that scores it. It is never uploaded to, or stored on, this website.
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It is not sold or shared
We do not sell resumes or contact details to recruiters, job boards, or advertisers, and we do not pass your file to third parties for their own use.
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You can delete it
Remove an individual scan or your entire account from your dashboard whenever you want, and the stored file goes with it.
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GDPR and UK GDPR
You can request a copy of your data or ask us to erase it. The privacy policy sets out what we process and why.
ATS resume checker questions
Is the ATS resume checker actually free?
Yes. Your ATS score, the parse preview showing what an applicant tracking system reads out of your file, the issue count by category, and your top three missing keywords all require no account and no payment. The complete fix list opens with a free account and no credit card. You only pay if you want Rezoom to rewrite the resume for you.
Do I have to give you my email to see my score?
No. Upload the file and the score appears. Almost every other checker asks for an email before it shows you a number; we deliberately do not, because a score you cannot see is not a free check.
What file formats can I upload?
PDF, up to 10 MB. Upload the same PDF you actually send to employers — the point of the scan is to test the file a parser will receive, not a cleaned-up copy of it.
What counts as a good ATS score?
On a scan tailored to a specific job description, around 75% is a sensible place to stop editing. Below roughly 50% something structural is usually wrong — content is being lost in the parse, or the resume is aimed at a different role than the one you picked. The score is a proxy for two things: how much of your resume survives extraction, and how closely what survives matches the role.
Do applicant tracking systems automatically reject resumes below a certain score?
No, and anyone claiming a specific cut-off is guessing. An ATS is a database and a search tool: recruiters filter, sort, and search it. A resume that parses badly does not get rejected by a robot — it just fails to appear in the searches that would have surfaced it, or it arrives on a screen with half its content missing. That is the real cost, and it is what the score measures.
Should I paste a job description?
It is optional, and it materially improves the result. Without one you get a general scan: parse quality, structure, formatting, and completeness. With one you also get keyword match against that specific posting, the terms it repeats that are missing from your file, and a seniority read against what the role is asking for.
Will a two-column resume fail the scan?
Not automatically, but it is the single most common source of real damage. Some parsers read columns in the correct order; many read straight across, which interleaves your sidebar into your job titles. The parse preview shows you which of those happened to your file specifically, so you can decide rather than guess.
What happens to my resume after the scan?
Your browser sends the PDF directly to the Rezoom app that analyses it; it is never stored on this website. We do not sell or share resumes or contact details with recruiters, job boards, or advertisers. You can delete an individual scan or your whole account from your dashboard, and you can ask us for a copy of your data or its erasure at any time.
How is this different from the other free ATS checkers?
Three things. It shows you the parse simulation — the actual text a system extracts from your file — which almost nobody surfaces. It shows the score with no email wall. And it publishes the scoring weights, so you can see exactly which component cost you points instead of taking a number on faith.
Can Rezoom fix the problems it finds?
Yes. The report tells you what to change for free; a paid plan rewrites it — flattening the layout, moving contact details into the body, adding the missing terms in context, and tightening bullets so they state ownership and outcomes. You can also do every one of those edits yourself from the free report.
You are about ten seconds from knowing.
Upload the PDF you have been sending out and see the score, the parse, and the issues. No account, no card, no catch.
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