Free resume scan · ~30 seconds
Polished templates impress the human eye. But at most large employers, the first reader of your file is parsing software — and columns, graphics, and creative layouts are exactly what it stumbles on. The design may be costing you content you can’t see.
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One data point: in a resume-software vendor’s published experiment, a popular design-led template parsed at ≈18% accuracy in their test. One template, one test — but it’s why “it looks professional” and “the machine can read it” are different questions.
Nobody’s asking you to give up a document you’re proud of. Your file just has two readers with two different definitions of “readable”: the person who judges it, and the software that stores and searches it first. The design already works for reader one. Whether it survives reader two is unknown — until you test it.
The scan runs that test: upload the PDF and see what this class of software extracts from it — what comes through, what gets dropped, and a 0–100 score with the weak spots quoted from your own file.
The readout shows how resume-screening software reads files as a class, not the exact system of any single employer. Your file’s result is an open question — that’s the point of testing.
Free · No account needed for the scan · File deleted right after analysis