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ATS Resume Builder
Fill in the form and watch your resume take shape beside it as you type. Pick one of eight templates and download it as a PDF or a Word file — one that applicant tracking systems can actually read.
Step 1Upload your CV
PDF, Word or even a photo of a printed copy. We read the text out of it and fill in the form for you — no retyping.
Step 2Fix and add
Correct anything we read wrongly, and add or delete rows in any section: experience, education, skills, languages, interests and your own.
Step 3Pick a look and download
Watch the page build itself as you type, try the eight templates on it, and take it away as a PDF or a Word file. Every template is a single column of plain text that recruitment software can read.
Start from your current CV
Upload your current CV
Drag it here, or . We read the details into the form below so you only have to correct them.
PDF, DOC, DOCX, JPG, PNG or WEBP · up to 8 MB
Or paste the text of your CV instead
Useful if your file will not upload. Open your CV, select everything, copy it, and paste it here.
Personal InfoRequired
Links
Optional — adding at least one link improves your ATS score.
Professional SummaryRequired
Write it in the third person: your role, your years of experience, and one result you are proud of.
Work ExperienceRequired
EducationRequired
SkillsRequired
Certifications
Optional — licences and courses recruiters search for by name.
No certifications added yet.
Projects
Optional — a project counts for as much as a role when you are short of experience.
No projects added yet.
Languages
Optional — list the languages you can work in.
No languages added yet.
Anything else
Optional — awards, interests, and any section your uploaded CV had that the boxes above have no room for.
Anything we read from your CV under a heading of its own is kept here, so nothing is lost.
No extra sections.
ATS readiness
- Your full name is at the topPut your name in the Name field — it is the first thing a parser looks for.
- A working email addressAdd an email address you check. Without one, a shortlist cannot reach you.
- A phone numberAdd a 10-digit mobile number so recruiters can call you.
- The city you are inAdd your city. Most job searches are filtered by location before anything else.
- A summary of 50 to 150 wordsWrite three or four lines on who you are and what you do. This is where job-description keywords belong.
- At least one role or project describedAdd a job, an internship or a project. With none, there is nothing to match a vacancy against.
- Every role has its datesFill in the start and end dates for each role. A parser uses them to work out your total experience.
- Roles are described in bullet pointsWrite at least three bullet points across your roles — two to four per role reads best.
- Bullets open with an action verbStart each bullet with what you did — "Built", "Managed", "Reduced" — rather than "Responsible for".
- Results are backed by numbersPut a figure in more of your bullets — a percentage, an amount, a team size, a volume.
- 5 or more skills listedList the tools and skills named in the jobs you are applying for. This is what keyword matching reads.
- Education filled inAdd your highest qualification, with the institution and the year.
- Length is between 350 and 900 wordsThere is not much here yet. Most recruiters expect around a page and a half of detail.
- A LinkedIn or portfolio linkAdd your LinkedIn profile, or a portfolio or GitHub link if you have one.
2 checks already passing
- No bullet runs past three lines
- Written without "I" and "my"
Nothing is stored
Your CV is read in your browser and kept there. We do not save it, and nobody here can see it. Clearing your browser data, or pressing “Start over”, removes it completely.
What makes a resume ATS-friendly
Nothing here is a trick. An ATS-friendly resume is simply one whose layout does not get in the way of being read — by software first, and by the person it hands the results to. These are the rules the files on this page follow.
One column, no tables
Most applicant tracking systems read a page left to right, line by line. A two-column layout interleaves your job titles with your skills, and a table of contact details is often skipped entirely. Everything we generate is a single column of ordinary paragraphs.
Headings software recognises
“Work Experience”, “Education”, “Skills”. A parser matches your headings against a list it knows; a creative one like “My Journey” means that whole section is never filed. Whatever your old CV called them, the download uses the standard names.
Real text, not a picture
A CV exported as an image, or scanned and saved as a PDF, contains no text to read — some systems score it zero. The PDF we build holds selectable text in a standard font, and the Word file is plain markup.
No photo, logo or icon
They add nothing a parser can use, push your actual content onto a second page, and in some countries invite a discrimination complaint. Indian recruiters do not expect one on a resume.
Nothing hidden in the margins
Page headers and footers are frequently dropped, so a phone number that lives only in a footer is a phone number nobody has. Your contact details sit in the body of the page, at the top.
Questions people ask
What is an ATS, and why does it matter?
An applicant tracking system is the software an employer uses to collect and search applications. It reads your file, pulls out your name, contact details, jobs, dates and skills, and files them. A recruiter then searches that database. If the software cannot read your resume, nobody searches it — which is why how the file is built matters as much as what it says.
Is this free? Do I need an account?
It is free and there is no sign-up. There is no limit on how many times you can rebuild and download your resume.
Do you keep a copy of my CV?
No. The file you upload is read and then discarded, and the details stay in your own browser. We never save your resume, and nobody here can see it. Your work is kept in this browser so a refresh does not lose it; “Start over” removes it.
Can you read a photo of my printed CV?
Yes. Pick a JPG or PNG and your browser recognises the text on it, which takes up to a minute the first time. Reading text from a photograph is never perfect, so check every field afterwards — a straight-on picture in good light works best. If you have the PDF or Word original, use that instead.
My CV is a scanned PDF and nothing was read from it.
A scanned PDF is a picture of a page with no text inside it. Save or photograph a page as a JPG or PNG and upload that instead, and it will be read with OCR.
Does the template I pick change my chances?
Not with the software. All eight are a single column of real text under the same standard headings, so a parser reads them identically — what changes is the type, the spacing and at most one colour, which is what the person who opens the file afterwards sees. Pick the plainest one your industry accepts; Classic and Professional suit government and corporate applications, and the bolder ones suit design and startup roles.
Should I send the PDF or the Word file?
Send the PDF unless the employer asks for Word, because it looks the same everywhere. Some older recruitment systems, and some job boards that ask you to paste your details, handle .docx better — that is what the Word download is for.
Will this get my resume past the filters?
It makes sure your resume can be read and indexed properly, which is the part that is in your hands. What happens after that depends on your experience matching the vacancy — no tool, and nobody charging you money, can promise a shortlisting.
Does my resume have to be one page?
No. One page suits a fresher or someone with two or three years behind them; two pages are normal after that. Length is not what a parser cares about — detail that matches the job is.