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See how an applicant tracking system (ATS), the software most companies use to sort CVs, reads your CV, what a recruiter sees in 7 seconds, and which skills from real job ads are missing.

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What the check shows

  1. What the system reads

    The plain text an applicant tracking system pulls from your file: your sections, each role with its dates, your contact line, and the parts it may skip, such as tables, text boxes and page headers.

  2. The 7-second view

    What a recruiter takes in first: your name, your current title and role, its dates, the first words of your top lines and any number they can see without scrolling.

  3. Skills from live ads

    The skills that 20% or more of the matching ads ask for, and which of them your CV names. We show this only when 15 or more live ads match your job title.

There is no official ATS score

Each tool makes up its own numbers, such as 72%. We show what the system can and can't read, and what the ads ask for.

How this check works

  • We read your file with the same rules our app uses to import a CV, then read the extracted text a second time. What survives that round trip is what most systems can work with.

  • We look inside the file for tables, text boxes, page headers, two-column layouts and pages without selectable text, because many systems skip them.

  • The skills come from the requirements of live ads we track. We never show a skills list built from fewer than 15 ads.

Questions people ask

How do I check if my CV is ATS compliant?
Upload it above. We read the file the way an applicant tracking system does and show you the plain text it gets: your sections, each role with its dates, and the parts it may skip, such as tables, text boxes and page headers. Then fix what is missing and check again. There is no official compliance standard, so look at what the system reads, not at a badge.
Is 72 a good ATS score?
There is no official ATS score. Numbers like 72% are made up by each tool. Two tools often give the same CV different numbers, and recruiters never see them. What matters is whether the system reads your roles, dates and contact details, and whether your CV names the skills the ads ask for. That is what this check shows you, line by line.
Can ChatGPT check ATS score of resume?
ChatGPT can comment on a CV you paste, but it doesn't run an applicant tracking system and it can't see how your file is laid out, so any score it gives is a guess. This check reads your actual file, shows the text a system would extract, flags tables and text boxes, and compares your skills with live job ads. It is free and needs no account.
Can ATS detect resume lies?
No. An applicant tracking system stores and sorts CVs. It matches words and filters on fields like dates and location, but it doesn't check whether a line is true. People do that later: the recruiter, the interview and the reference checks. A line you can't explain costs more than a missing keyword. Our AI CV fact check marks lines that go beyond what you wrote.

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