Free resume score · no account
How does your resume actually score?
Free, no account. We read it the way an applicant tracking system does, then tell you the three things costing you interviews.
The rubric
What the score is measuring
Most resumes are read by software before a person sees them. The score is what six criteria add up to, weighted the way they matter to that first read. The weights are applied in our code, not decided by the model — the model judges each criterion, and the arithmetic is ours.
- Keyword coverage 22%
- How well the resume's vocabulary matches the roles this person is plainly targeting: named technologies, methods and domain terms an applicant tracking system would index.
- Parseable structure 20%
- Whether an applicant tracking system can read the document at all: single-column flow, real headings, no tables or text boxes or sidebars, dates in a consistent recognisable form.
- Quantified impact 24%
- How many bullets carry a measurable outcome — a number, a percentage, a scale, a time saved — rather than a description of duties.
- Verb strength 14%
- Whether bullets open with a strong specific action verb, rather than 'Responsible for', 'Worked on', 'Helped with' or a noun phrase.
- Length and density 10%
- Whether the length suits the person's experience and the page is neither padded nor starved: bullet counts per role, words per bullet, whitespace.
- Contact and links 10%
- Whether name, email, phone, city and the relevant professional links are present, correct in form, and machine-readable.
Its limits
What it does not do
It does not rewrite your resume behind your back, and it does not invent achievements to raise its own number. It reads the file in memory and never stores it. If you want the problems fixed rather than named, the interview builds a resume from scratch in about four minutes, free this month.
Quick answers
Questions before you upload
Is this resume checker really free?
Yes. There is no account, no card and no trial: upload a PDF and the score comes back on the same page. Building or tailoring a resume needs an account; scoring one you already have does not.
Do you keep my resume?
No. The file is read in memory to extract its text, the text is sent to a language model to be judged against the rubric, and nothing is saved. There is no account for it to be saved to.
Which files can I upload?
A PDF of up to 8 MB that contains real text — one exported from Word, Google Docs or a resume builder. A scan or a photo saved as PDF has no text to read, so the checker asks for a text PDF instead.
What is a good resume score?
85 or above is strong, 70 to 84 is solid, 50 to 69 is middle of the pack, and below 50 the basics are costing you interviews. The weakest points are named under the score, so you know what to fix first.
How is the score calculated?
A language model scores each of six criteria from 0 to 100 and quotes the evidence it used. The weights are applied in code afterwards and are never shown to the model, so it cannot raise the total by favouring the criterion that counts most.
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