Uses I, me or my
Your line: I was responsible for the on-call rota.
Better: Ran the on-call rota for 12 backend services.
Free resume checker
Upload your resume and get a score out of 100, with every problem recruiters and hiring software notice.
- A score out of 100
- Every problem, with the lines that cause it
- Works for any job, in any country
Lines it catches, and what works better
These are the mistakes that get resumes skipped. The checker finds them in your own words.
Overused words
Your line: Hard-working team player with great people skills.
Better: Handled 60 customer calls a day with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
No numbers
Your line: Made the checkout page faster.
Better: Cut checkout load time from 3.1 to 1.2 seconds.
Filler words
Your line: Very quickly learned various tools in order to help the team.
Better: Learned Salesforce in two weeks and trained 5 teammates on it.
Everything the resume checker looks at
The problems recruiters and hiring software notice most.
What your points say
Content
- Points with numbers: how many, how often or how much
- Points that are too short to mean anything
- How many points each job has
- Overused words like “hard-working” and “team player”
- Filler words like “very” and “in order to”
- “I”, “me” and “my”, which resumes leave out
How it reads at a glance
Format
- Jobs listed newest first
- Points that end the same way
- Past tense for old jobs, present tense for your current one
- Overall length in words
What recruiters look for first
Best practices
- Email, phone and location
- Dates on every job
- Skills grouped under short labels
- A short summary at the top
How to check your resume
About two minutes, start to finish.
- 1
Upload your resume
Drop in a PDF or paste the text. Any job, any country.
- 2
Get your score
We score it out of 100 and list every problem, with the lines that cause it.
- 3
Fix it
Open it in the resume builder and fix most problems in one click.
Fix
Then fix it in one click
Open your checked resume in the builder. “Fix it for me” sorts your jobs newest first, tidies dates, groups your skills and rewrites weak points.
Every rewritten line is checked against your original. Any line that adds a tool, skill, number or duty you didn't list is put back.
Then find a job and apply early
Resume checker questions
Contact usYes. Create a free account, upload your resume and you get the full score and every problem we find. You can check up to 3 resumes a day.
On our scale, 89 or above means the resume is ready to send. A 75 or 80 is close: usually a few fixes, like adding numbers or tidying dates. Scores from different checkers use different rules, so compare them only within one tool.
Hiring software (an ATS) reads the text in your file. Use a one-column layout, plain section headings like Experience, and dates next to each job. If your PDF is a scan or photo, the words can't be read, and our checker tells you.
ChatGPT can give feedback, but it doesn't run a fixed set of checks, so the same resume can get a different score each time. Our checker scores every resume against the same fixed rules, so you can fix a problem, check again and see the score move.
It's the idea that recruiters decide in seconds whether to keep reading. A 2018 eye-tracking study by Ladders found an average first look of 7.4 seconds. Clear job titles, dates and short points with numbers make those seconds count.
Often, when it sounds generic. Phrases like “results-driven team player” stand out. Keep every line specific to you: real tools, numbers and results. The checker flags overused words so you can replace them with what you actually did.
Recent jobs first, dates on every job, clear contact details and points that show results with numbers. The checker looks for each of these and shows the exact lines that need work.
One page for most people, two if you have many years of experience. Most one-page resumes have 350 to 650 words. The checker tells you if yours is too short or too long.
Pick one that shows the exact lines behind each problem, not just a number, and lets you see the full result without paying. JobUnlocked's checker does both, for any job and any country.
No. It only reads your resume and reports what it finds. You decide what to change, in the resume builder or in your own file.
See what's holding your resume back
Upload it, get your score and fix the problems before you apply.