Free ATS Resume Checker, graded against your real job market
Built to replicate how real ATS screening works. Two scores, one honest report: Resume Quality — will ATS and recruiters read it right — and Market Fit — validated against 300,000+ live job postings for your role.
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Score 01
Resume Quality
Needs work
ATS & recruiter readiness
Score 02
Market Fit
Gaps found
of your market's demand covered
AI can fix every flagged issue — one click
The data behind the grade
Validated against 300,000+ live job postings
Real ATS screening is a match against a job description. So that's what we replicate — your resume graded against thousands of real, live postings for your role, not an invented checklist.
Step 1
300,000+ live & recent postings
Step 2
What that slice demands
% of your role's postings asking for it
Step 3
Your resume, graded against it
Generic checkers grade every resume with the same fixed checklist. Your criteria here are computed from what employers are hiring for right now — the same live feed that powers CVJet's job search, so the grading moves when your market moves.
Two scores, not one
One number can't answer two questions
A polished resume with the wrong skills, and a stacked resume that reads badly, fail for opposite reasons — so we never blend them.
Score 01
Resume Quality
ATS & recruiter readiness
- •Parses cleanly in every major ATS
- •Impact-driven bullets with real metrics — not task lists
- •A summary that says who you are, not filler
Score 02
Market Fit
Your skills vs. live demand
- •Criteria from live postings for your role — not a generic list
- •Every skill weighted by how much of your market asks for it
- •Demonstrated beats listed — buried skills get half credit
90/40? Fix the skills story. 45/80? Fix the writing. A blended number can't tell you which problem you have.
The ruleset, in brief
Exactly how the scores are computed
No black box — these are the actual weights and rules the report uses.
Resume Quality · weighted rubric
Outcomes with measurable results, not job-description tasks
Leads with specialization, years, and a real differentiator
Density of bullets carrying numbers — %, $, team sizes
Right length, categorized skills, consistent formatting
Market Fit · presence credit
Full credit — listed and demonstrated in your experience.
Half credit — mentioned once or buried; a 7-second scan misses it.
No credit — not evidenced anywhere in the resume.
Issues · what gets flagged
Every bullet is checked. Typical resumes surface 6–15 specific issues, each critical or important.
Never flagged: employment gaps, career changes, section order. Those are your decisions, not defects.
The full checklist
26 named checks · 4 categories
Summary6
- Missing professional summary
- Generic language
- No years of experience
- No specialization
- Too long
- First-person narrative
Experience11
- Weak action verbs
- Task lists, not outcomes
- Vague impact claims
- Missing quantified results
- Passive language
- Redundant across roles
- Vague project descriptions
- Missing technical depth
- Missing scale context
- Not candidate-focused
- Repetitive phrasing
Impact5
- Zero quantified metrics
- Low metric density
- Vague performance claims
- Missing scale metrics
- Unsubstantiated claims
Structure4
- Too long for experience level
- Uncategorized skills section
- Missing skills section
- Verbose education section
The honest part
An ATS-optimized resume isn't the finish line
This checker maximizes your resume's general compatibility — against your whole market, not one posting. That's the right way to build your base resume, and most checkers stop there.
But only ~3 of every 100 applications you send get a response, and every job weights its requirements differently. The people who get hired take the optimized base and tailor it per job. In CVJet that's one click, not an evening.
See the full workflowYour base resume
ATS-optimized with this checker
Frontend Engineer
Northwind Labs
UI Engineer
Datawharf
Web Engineer
Brightline
One base resume · one tailored version per job · one click each
How ATS actually works — and what actually gets you skipped
An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) — Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Taleo, iCIMS — parses your resume into a structured profile: contact info, work history, skills. That profile, not your carefully designed PDF, is what recruiters see, search, and filter.
The auto-reject myth
ATS software rarely rejects anyone automatically. With 500+ applicants per role, recruiters search and filter the pile — if your resume parsed badly or doesn't contain the terms they search, you're not rejected. You're simply never found.
So two things decide your fate: whether your resume parses cleanly, and whether it demonstrates the terms recruiters in your market search for. Notice what that means: real screening is always a match against job descriptions— never against a checklist someone invented. That's why this checker is built to replicate the real thing: it grades you against 300,000+ live postings, because the right keywords for a nurse, an accountant, and a frontend engineer have nothing in common.
One more honest note: a strong general score makes your base resume competitive, but it doesn't replace tailoring per job — each posting weights requirements its own way. Optimize once here; tailor for every application. If your layout itself is the problem, start from an ATS-friendly resume template instead of fighting it — and for the deeper context on what checkers can and can't do, read Are ATS resume checkers worth it?
Keep going
Free resources for beating ATS
Templates
ATS-Friendly Resume Templates
Layouts that parse cleanly by construction — start from one instead of fighting yours.
Guide
ATS-Friendly Resume Guide
How ATS parses, filters, and ranks resumes — and how to get past it.
From the blog
Are ATS Resume Checkers Worth It?
Our honest review of checker tools, what their scores mean, and where they mislead.
Guide
How to Tailor Your Resume
The per-job step no checker can do for you — and the one that wins interviews.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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Two scores.
One honest report.
Resume Quality and Market Fit — graded against 300,000+ live postings for your role, with every issue listed.
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