ATS checklist: make your CV easier to read and assess
An ATS-friendly CV is not a secret formula for getting hired. Aim to submit a readable document, show truthful evidence for the role and check that application fields reflect what you wrote. Follow the employer’s instructions first; systems and hiring processes vary.
The boxes below stay on this page. Ticking one does not save it and does not send it with the CV check.
1. Check the file the employer will receive
These reduce risk; they are not universal ATS rules. Greenhouse’s parsing guidance lists columns, images, tables, headers and footers among causes of unsuccessful or partial parsing. It does not prove every two-column CV is rejected everywhere.
2. Check evidence against the advert
3. Check the application, not only the CV
Parsing and eligibility are different. Greenhouse says a failed parse can leave the resume attached while fields need manual completion. Oracle documents disqualification questions that can automatically determine whether an application progresses. Neither implies a universal keyword pass mark.
4. Choose one useful next edit
Fix what most obscures relevant evidence: an unclear bullet, a qualification you genuinely hold but omitted, or text that exports in the wrong order. Save a role-specific version so you know what you submitted.
Read ATS screening explained for context. Comparing workflows? See the CareerKit alternatives guide.
Check one CV against one job
Have your CV or resume and one job advert ready. Paste them into the check on this page. It calls the same guest check as Studio, and only after you tick consent. Exploring rather than applying? Use the fictional Amelia Vance sample. That sample stays in this browser until you tick consent and run the check.
Free CV check on this page
Paste one CV or resume and one job advert. The button calls the existing free check. The first check in this browser does not ask for an email. A later day asks for an email, or for you to sign in, before another free check. It does not open payment.
This is guidance, not an employer’s ATS result. When the review service is configured, the check can return the requirements it compared and the next steps it suggests. A rewritten line is shown only when the response includes one. If the service is not configured, or it cannot finish a verified reading, the same endpoint can return a rules-based reading on CareerKitHub’s server. A rules-based reading cannot certify that an employer will parse an original file. A model reading can misunderstand context or suggest unsupported wording. Review every suggestion. Never add a skill, qualification or result you cannot substantiate. No score guarantees an ATS pass, an interview or a job. A free check does not mean later rewriting or downloads are free.
You can read the result without an account. Signing in is how a review is saved in Studio. This page does not upload a file and does not take payment.
Before you paste
Remove unnecessary contact details and confidential information. This page accepts pasted text only. The first check in this browser does not ask for an email. If this browser already completed a free check on an earlier day, a new day asks for an email and a separate tick, or for you to sign in. That email is a lead record described in the privacy information. This page does not create an account from the check, and it does not save the CV, the job advert or the result to an account. The text stays in this browser until you change it or leave the page.
The consent box starts unticked. Nothing is sent until you tick it and run the check. The privacy information covers this guest check. Anthropic receives the text only when the review service is configured. Otherwise, or if a verified reading cannot be finished, CareerKitHub can return a rules-based reading on its own server. The daily caps can be configured: one for a connection that has an address, one shared by guest checks, and one used when no address is available. A recorded count stores a hash and a count. It does not store the CV text. Provider retention and backups still apply to text that reaches Anthropic. This page does not promise that a provider deletes that text.
Creating an account and uploading a CV is a later step. The file is processed in memory and not stored, and the extracted text, the job advert and the results are saved to that account. In Studio, a PDF, DOCX or TXT can be read in memory; the original file is not stored.