Free tool

Can a machine read your CV?

Most applications are read by software before a person sees them, and most CVs that get filtered out are not weak — they are unreadable. A two-column layout, an email address inside a header, a date written as “2 years” instead of a range. Upload yours and see what comes out the other side.

PDF or .docx, up to 5 MB. Your file is read in memory and thrown away when the report appears — nothing is saved, and it never leaves this page.

Adding this checks your CV against the words in that title — which is what a recruiter actually searches their database for.

Now that it is readable, get the jobs by email

Tell us what you are looking for and we will email you the new ones. Free, and one click stops it.

We send you jobs and nothing else. Your address is not sold, and it is not shared with employers unless you apply to one.

Common questions

What does this actually check?
Whether your CV has the things every parser looks for — an email address in the text layer, section headings on their own lines, dated roles — and none of the things they trip over, like two-column layouts that get read straight across. It also looks at how the bullets are written, because a human reads the file after the software does.
Will it tell me if I would pass a specific company’s system?
No, and nothing can. Applicant tracking systems are dozens of different products and none of them publish how they parse a file. Anyone promising you a pass mark for a named system is guessing. What is measurable is whether your document is readable at all, which is where most CVs actually lose.
Do you keep my CV?
No. The file is read into memory, turned into text, scored, and gone when the report appears. It is never written to disk, never sent to our API, and no account is created.
Why does it say it cannot read my PDF?
Almost always because the PDF is a scan or an export made of images rather than text. That is worth knowing on its own: an applicant tracking system cannot read it either, so the CV is arriving effectively blank. Exporting a fresh PDF from Word or Google Docs fixes it.