Paste your resume text and the checker scores it against eight rules that applicant tracking systems depend on: a plain email and phone number, standard Experience, Education and Skills headings, 300 to 1,000 words, and no tables or icons. A resume passing six of eight scores 75. Add a job ad to see the keyword overlap.
Applicant tracking systems read a resume as plain text before a recruiter sees it, and layouts built for the eye often fall apart there: two-column tables merge lines, star ratings vanish, and a creative heading like My Journey leaves the parser unsure where your jobs are. This checker looks at the text you paste and flags the patterns that most often break parsing. Each rule shows pass or fix with a short note, and the score is simply the share of rules passed. Paste a job posting too and it lists which of the ad's terms your resume never mentions. It reads text only, so it cannot see fonts, images or how a PDF was exported; copy the text out of your final file to test what a parser will actually get.
Copy the text from your final file into the first box, or open a .txt export of it.
Optionally paste the posting into the second box to add a keyword match check.
The table marks each rule Pass or Fix with a note on what to change.
The warning lists job ad terms missing from your resume; add the ones that truly describe you.
Result ATS readiness score (of 100): 75
Checks passed: 6 of 8
Words: 21
Job ad keyword match: No job ad pasted
Contact details and headings are fine, but the | separator and the very short length cost two checks.
Result ATS readiness score (of 100): 67
Checks passed: 6 of 9
Words: 11
Job ad keyword match: 50%
The ad has four key terms; the resume covers Python and experience but not developer or Django, so the match is 50%.
score = rules passed ÷ rules checked × 100
rules checkedkeyword matchEach rule is a plain text test. Headings must sit on their own short line and contain a standard word such as experience, education or skills. A phone needs seven or more digits in one run. Pipes, box-drawing lines and repeated tabs count as table marks, and stars, checkmarks and emoji count as icons. The keyword check passes at 60% coverage of the ad's terms.
Pipes and box lines usually come from tables or column layouts. Some parsers read them as cell breaks and misplace the text around them, so a comma or a new line is the safer separator.
A short line containing experience, employment or work history; education, qualifications or academic; and skills, competencies or technologies. Inventive titles may read well to people but leave a parser guessing.
Under about 300 words there is rarely enough detail for keyword matching, and over 1,000 words a resume usually runs past two pages. It is a practical range, not a hard rule from any system.
The checker collects distinct words of four or more letters from the job ad, drops filler such as with and their, and counts how many also appear in your resume. Coverage of 60% or more passes.
No. It means the text avoids the common parsing traps tested here. Shortlisting still depends on the employer's filters, the recruiter and how well your experience fits the role.
No. The checks run in your browser and the text is not saved when you close the page.
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Tools Directory Editorial Team. (2026, October 16). ATS Friendly Resume Checker. Tools Directory. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://tools.milunir.com/business-specialty/career-and-interview-tools/ats-friendly-resume-checker/
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