General ATS readiness
Checks extractable text, file and layout signals, contact details, conventional sections, dates, bullet quality, and measurable outcomes.
Free ATS resume checker
Check your resume's ATS score before you optimize
Upload a PDF or DOCX and see how your resume reads to an applicant tracking system. Add a job description to check which requirements and keywords you already match. Free, no account required.
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General check by default · 50 characters minimum for job matching.
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Max 5 MB. Text-based files only.
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Comparing against one specific vacancy? Use the job description matcher
A readable diagnostic, not a promise from an employer's ATS
Job-description match
When you paste a vacancy, the audit also reports keyword overlap, repeated requirements, and role alignment.
Clear privacy boundary
No account is required. The uploaded file is processed for this check and is not saved to a user dashboard. PDF and DOCX are supported up to 5 MB.
Ryzio does not know the screening questions, recruiter workflow, or ranking rules configured for a specific employer. Use each finding as a review prompt and keep every resume claim accurate.
Why scores differTwenty-five checks, and you can read every one of them
The score totals 100 points across four groups. Each finding in your result names the check it came from, the points available, the points earned, and what to change. The model itself, including thresholds and version, is published at the ATS score methodology.
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Keyword match
Only scored when you paste a job description. Without one these checks drop out of the calculation entirely, rather than scoring zero, so the total your result is measured against is smaller.
- Overlap between the vacancy's language and your resume
- Requirements the posting repeats, which tend to be the real ones
- Whether your role titles line up with the role advertised
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Content
The part a human reviewer would also notice. Weighted second only to keyword match, because it is what remains once your file has parsed cleanly.
- Bullets that open with an action verb rather than a duty
- Bullets carrying a number, a scale, or a measurable result
- Bullets that state an outcome and not only an activity
- Vague filler phrases that take up a line without adding a fact
- Bullet density: enough to show the work, few enough to be read
- Skills written as concrete skills rather than a prose paragraph
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Structure
Whether the file can be read at all, and whether its shape matches what parsers expect to find.
- A supported file type
- Text that can actually be extracted, rather than a scanned image
- Single-column layout signals
- Images and graphics in positions that interrupt the text flow
- Fonts that embed and extract predictably
- An Experience section, an Education section, a Skills section
- Section headings a parser recognises, rather than invented ones
- One consistent date format
- Experience entries with the title, employer and dates all present
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Contact and file readiness
Small in points and large in consequence. A resume that scores well everywhere else still fails a recruiter who cannot find an email address.
- Your name where a parser looks for it
- An email address in a parseable form
- A phone number
- A location
- At least one professional link
What the number is, and what it is not
The score describes your document. It is a reading of the file in front of it: whether the text comes out cleanly, whether the sections are where a parser expects them, whether the bullets say what you did or only where you sat. That is a useful thing to know before you send it, and it is the limit of what any checker can honestly offer.
It is not a prediction. An employer's system is configured by that employer, with screening questions, filters and a shortlist we cannot see. A strong score means your resume is unlikely to be lost in parsing. It says nothing about the other forty people who applied.
One thing worth watching: a general check and a job-specific check are measured against different totals. Without a vacancy to compare against, the keyword-match checks drop out of the calculation rather than scoring zero, so the same unchanged file produces two different numbers. Compare general with general, and job-specific with job-specific.
How resumes come apart during parsing, tested against real files rather than described in the abstract.
Read the parsing researchCommon questions about ATS resume checkers
Is this ATS resume checker actually free?
Yes, and it does not ask for an account. Upload a PDF or DOCX up to 5 MB and the full audit comes back, every finding included. There is no blurred section and no score withheld behind a signup.
Why did another checker give my resume a different score?
Because the two tools are measuring different things and dividing by different totals. A score is only meaningful next to the rule set that produced it, which is why ours is published in full. We wrote up the specific reasons scores diverge in why ATS scores differ.
Should I paste the job description?
Paste it if you are checking a resume for one specific role, because the keyword-match group only exists once there is a vacancy to compare against. Leave it blank for a general readability check. The two are measured against different totals, so do not read one number as an improvement on the other.
What happens to the file I upload?
It is processed for this check and is not saved to a user dashboard. No account exists to attach it to.
Does a high score mean I will get the interview?
No, and treat any tool that implies otherwise with suspicion. The score describes your document. It cannot see the other applicants, the screening questions an employer configured, or how a recruiter works through a shortlist.
PDF or DOCX?
Both are accepted here. Which one to send is a separate question, and the answer depends on the employer rather than on a universal rule. We went through the evidence in PDF vs DOCX for ATS.