Free ATS Score Checker: Check Your CV in 30 Seconds
An ATS score checker tells you how CV-parsing software would read your CV before you send it. Ours does this for free, in about 30 seconds, with no account or card required.
Upload your CV to the CV Score tool and you'll get a percentage score plus an 8-point breakdown of what's driving it: formatting, section structure, contact details, quantified results, skills, experience descriptions, generic phrases and summary quality.
What the checker actually measures
Each of the eight checks targets something a real ATS either parses correctly or doesn't. Formatting and structure decide whether the system can read your CV at all: single-column layouts with standard section headings score well, tables and graphical elements do not. Contact completeness, quantified results, skills quality, experience descriptions and summary quality then reflect what a strong, complete CV looks like once it has been parsed correctly. A low score usually points to one or two of these rather than the whole document.
Why the breakdown matters more than the headline number
A single percentage tells you something is off; it doesn't tell you what. The breakdown shows which of the eight checks is weakest, so you can fix formatting without rewriting content that was already fine, or add missing numbers to your experience bullets without touching a summary that already scores well.
Checking a CV with no job in mind yet
The free checker works on its own, without a job description, because it measures general CV quality and ATS compatibility rather than matching against one specific posting. That makes it useful early, before you've picked a role to apply for. Once you've added a real job to your tracker, Gap Analysis compares your CV against that job's exact wording and flags the specific keywords it's missing, on top of the general checks here.
What to do with a low score
Start with whichever of the eight checks is lowest. Formatting problems, tables, columns, graphical headers, usually need a layout change rather than new content. A thin skills section or missing numbers in your experience bullets are quick edits. Most CVs move several points within a few minutes of targeted changes.
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