Resume Format Checker
Upload a .docx or .pdf resume to check it against widely-documented common ATS parsing failure patterns — tables, text boxes, multi-column layouts, contact info hidden in a header or footer, and missing standard section headings.
Applying to a specific job? Check your resume against that job description’s keywords.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this replace a real ATS test?
- No. Real ATS platforms (Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, and dozens of others) each parse documents slightly differently, and none publish their exact parsing logic. This tool checks your file against widely-documented common failure patterns — a strong first pass, not a guarantee of how any specific ATS will treat your file.
- Why does it flag tables, text boxes, and columns?
- These are the most consistently documented causes of ATS parsing failures: parsers typically read top-to-bottom, left-to-right, so a table or two-column layout gets read out of order, and text inside a text box is often skipped entirely. See the sourced reference page for details.
- Why can it check fewer things in a PDF than in a .docx?
- A .docx file is a zip of structured XML, so this tool can look for actual table, text-box, and column elements in the document's own markup. A PDF is a rendering format with no equivalent structural markup, so PDF checks are limited to what can be inferred from extracted text and glyph positions: whether there's a text layer at all, and whether text positions suggest a multi-column layout.
- Is my resume uploaded anywhere?
- No. The file is read and parsed entirely in your browser using JavaScript — it never leaves your device.