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Free ATS resume checker — score your resume against any job
Nearly all large employers route resumes through an ATS. Paste a job and your resume below to see how well you match that exact role and which requirements you have not shown — no signup, nothing saved.
Score your resume against the job
No account, no card. Your resume is kept in this browser only, so your next scan is one paste. We keep no copy until you create an account.
Prefer to check it yourself? The DIY method
You don't need any tool to catch the biggest problems. Run these four checks right now:
- 1Copy all the text out of your resume PDF and paste it into a plain text editor. If your name, titles, dates, and skills come out in the right order, an ATS can read it. If it's scrambled, your layout is breaking the parser.
- 2Put your resume next to one specific job description. Highlight the role's top 8–10 required skills and check how many appear, in your own words, on your resume.
- 3Use a single-column, text-based layout. Columns, tables, text inside images, and headers/footers can all get scrambled or dropped before scoring.
- 4Aim to cover most of what a posting actually asks for. This is a coverage count, not a prediction about any employer's software — we cannot see their system. Tailor honestly, never keyword-stuff.
What an ATS check actually measures
Two things: whether the system can parse your resume (layout, fonts, sections) and how well your content matches the specific job. A clean parse with a weak match still goes nowhere — which is why tailoring matters more than templates.
Go deeper: how to check your resume against an ATS, what your ATS score means, why resumes get rejected, and how to tailor your resume to a job.
Frequently asked questions
How do I check if my resume is ATS-friendly for free?
Run the copy-paste test: paste your resume's text into a plain document and confirm it stays in the right order with contact info, titles, dates, and skills intact. Then compare it against a specific job and check your top skills line up. inteller.ai scores it automatically on this page — paste the job and your resume, no signup.
Is there a truly free ATS resume checker?
Yes — several tools offer free checks with limits, and you can also check by hand. The checker on this page scores your resume against a specific job with no account and no card. The key is that any check should be against a real job description, not a generic score.
What is a good ATS score?
There is no universal number, and we cannot tell you what any employer's software will do — we never see it. Treat this as coverage: how much of what the posting asks for is visible in your resume. High coverage means you have not left obvious things out. It is a way to decide where to spend your evening, not a prediction about getting an interview.
Why score against a specific job instead of a generic grade?
An ATS match is relative to each posting — the same resume can score 85% for one role and 45% for another because they want different skills. A generic 'ATS score' with no job attached tells you almost nothing useful.
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