Free Resume Grader: Score Out of 100 and the Three Fixes That Matter

The grader reads your resume the way a recruiter does in the first 20 seconds. It scores four things and adds them up.

• Summary. Does the top of the page say what job you want and why you fit it, in three lines or fewer?
• Experience. Do your bullets show what you did and what happened, with numbers where you have them? Or do they list duties?
• Skills. Are the tools, licenses, and certifications the job needs on the page, spelled the way the posting spells them?
• Formatting. Can a person and a hiring system read it? Standard headings, one column, no tables or photos, dates that line up.

If you type in the job you want, the grader also checks your resume against what that job usually asks for and shows the keywords you have and the ones you are missing.

• 80 to 100. Send it. Make the small fixes it lists, then apply.
• 60 to 79. Close. The three fixes it gives you are the gap. Most resumes land here.
• Under 60. Rewrite it. Start with the three fixes, then run the full audit in the trial, which rewrites every line.

The score is about getting an interview, not about you. A strong worker with a weak resume scores low. That is the whole reason to check.

Across the resumes we grade, the same three problems come up more than any others.

1. Duties instead of results. "Responsible for customer service" says what the job was. "Handled 60 calls a day and kept the wait under three minutes" says what you did. Every bullet should have a verb, a thing, and a result.
2. No summary, or a vague one. The top three lines should name the job you want and the two or three things that make you a fit. "Hard-working team player" does not do that. "CNA with two years in memory care, certified in Virginia, looking for a hospital floor role" does.
3. Missing the words the job uses. If the posting says "electronic health records" and your resume says "computer charting," a hiring system may not match them. Use the posting's words when they are true.

The STAR method guide shows how to turn a duty into a result line. The same structure that works in an interview answer works in a bullet.

See which of the three your resume has. Upload the file or paste the text at the top of this page. No account.

Your resume matters before you ever get to a job interview. The intake counselor at the American Job Center reads it. So does the training program you apply to, and many programs interview you before they take you.

What those readers want to see:

• A summary that names the field you want to train in and why. "Looking to train as a medical assistant after four years in retail" tells the counselor your plan.
• Your work history with dates, even if the jobs were short or unrelated. Gaps are fine. Missing dates look like hiding.
• Anything that shows you finish things: a GED, a certificate, a license, a job you held for a year.

The WIOA Navigator tells you which programs in your state to apply to and what to bring. Grade the resume here first, fix the three things, then bring it to intake.

The free grade gives you the score and the three biggest fixes. The tools inside the 3-day trial do the rest:

• The Resume Designer finishes the resume for you, inside the trial. It rewrites your whole resume for one job posting using only what is on the page, leaves a blank where a number would help, and shows you what changed and why. You can build and edit it during the free trial. The finished Word file is $15 to download while you are on the trial, and free on every download once your plan starts.
• The full audit rewrites weak bullets one at a time, with the before and after side by side.
• Matches your resume against a real job posting you paste in, not just a job title.
• Checks your LinkedIn the same way.
• Then runs your interview practice out loud with an AI interviewer that scores your answers.

The trial is three days, every feature open. After that it is $10 a week or $30 a month, and you can cancel from Settings.