From the free ClapAssist checker. Score, fixes and keyword match. Nothing was uploaded.
Drop your PDF or Word resume. The page reads it the way a parser does, scores it out of 100 on 13 checks, and lists each fix with the reason. Paste the job post too and see which keywords are missing. Other checkers show the score and sell the fixes; here both are free.
Your file never leaves this tab. Nothing is uploaded. The PDF and Word readers are open-source libraries served from this site, loaded only when you choose a file.
Pasted text cannot be checked for layout (columns, tables, images). Upload the file for that.
The match is shown next to the score, not mixed into it. Nothing you paste leaves your browser.
13 rule-based checks, weighted; the weight of each is printed on its card and in the table below. The score is the sum. It measures how a parser and a skimming reader will cope with the page, not how good you are at the job.
PDF or DOCX, or paste the text. The reader library loads from this site the first time and reads the file inside the tab.
The text is cut into sections by heading, the contact line and the dates are pulled out, bullets are counted, the layout is tested for columns, tables and images.
Every failed check says what to change and why. Paste the job post to see the missing keywords and where each one should go. Re-drop the file after the edit.
Thirteen checks. Each one gives full, half or no points (some scale with a ratio, like the share of bullets that start with a verb). The weights add up to 100:
| Check | What passes | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Contact line | Email and phone as plain text near the top; LinkedIn optional | 10 |
| Summary | A Summary section of four lines or fewer (about 80 words) | 6 |
| Standard headings | Summary, Skills, Experience, Education found by name; unusual headings flagged | 12 |
| Readable dates | Month Year to Month Year (or Present) on each job; gaps over 6 months are shown, not penalised | 8 |
| Verb-first bullets | 80% or more of bullets open with a doing verb (list of 148 verbs) | 14 |
| Bullets with a number | 40% or more carry a number, percentage or amount | 12 |
| Length | 1 page under 5 years of experience, 2 pages otherwise; estimated at 450–600 words a page for pasted text | 8 |
| Simple layout | One column, no tables, no images; text stream in reading order (PDF and DOCX only) | 10 |
| Plain characters | No symbol fonts or stylised letters, no repeated header or footer | 5 |
| No first person | No I, me, my | 4 |
| No clichés | No "team player", "passionate", "responsible for" openers and the like | 5 |
| File name | Carries your name; no "final", "new", "(1)" | 2 |
| No personal details or salary | No photo, date of birth, marital status, father's name, ID numbers, declaration or CTCsalary line | 4 |
The keyword match takes the words and two-word phrases the job post repeats (common words removed), groups them into tools, skills and soft words, and looks for each one in your resume. It is shown as "found x of y", separate from the score, because a resume stuffed with keywords is not a better resume.
Both are made up. Load one and the checker scores it live, so what you see is the real output, not a picture of it.
Objective instead of a summary, a "Personal Details" block with date of birth and father's name, a declaration at the end, bullets that start with "Responsible for", not one number.
Rahul Verma
Email: rahul.verma@example.com | Mobile: +91 98765 43210
Career Objective
To obtain a challenging position in a reputed organisation where I can utilise my skills and knowledge and grow with the company as a hard worker and team player.
Educational Qualifications
B.Tech Computer Science, ABC Institute of Technology, 2024, 7.8 CGPA
Class XII, XYZ Senior Secondary School, 2020, 84%
Technical Skills
C, Java, Python, HTML, CSS, MySQL, MS Office
Internship
Software Intern, Sample Tech Pvt Ltd, 2023
- Responsible for testing the web application and reporting bugs.
- Worked on the login module with the team.
- Helped with documentation and daily meetings.
Academic Project
Online Library Management System
- Responsible for the database design and the front end.
- I used Java and MySQL for the project.
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 12 March 2002
Father's Name: Suresh Verma
Marital Status: Single
Languages Known: Hindi, English
Expected CTC: 4.5 LPA
Declaration
I hereby declare that the above information is true to the best of my knowledge.
Standard headings, dates on every job, numbers in most bullets, one gap of eight months between jobs, one "passionate" in the summary.
Ananya Iyer
ananya.iyer@example.com | +91 91234 56780 | linkedin.com/in/ananya-iyer | Bengaluru
Summary
Backend engineer with 6 years on payments and billing systems in Java and Go. Passionate about reliability: cut checkout failures from 4% to 0.3% at the last company. Led a team of 5.
Skills
Java, Go, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana
Experience
Senior Software Engineer, Sample Payments Ltd, Bengaluru, Mar 2022 - Present
- Led the rewrite of the settlement service; batch time fell from 40 minutes to 6.
- Cut checkout failures from 4% to 0.3% by fixing a connection-pool leak found in slow-query logs.
- Mentored 3 engineers; two were promoted within a year.
- Designed the on-call rota and runbooks; pages per week dropped from 30 to 8.
Software Engineer, Example Commerce Pvt Ltd, Pune, Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
- Built the order-tracking API used by 2 million monthly users.
- Reduced AWS spend by 22% by moving batch jobs to spot instances.
- Wrote the load-test suite that caught 3 release-blocking bugs.
Education
B.E. Computer Engineering, Sample College of Engineering, Pune, 2014 - 2018
Projects
Open-source Kafka exporter for Prometheus; 400 stars on GitHub.
No. The file is read inside your browser tab by two open-source libraries served from this website (pdf.js for PDF, mammoth for DOCX). No request carries the resume, the job post or the results anywhere. Close the tab and it is gone.
Thirteen rule-based checks, each with a weight that is printed next to it: contact line 10, summary 6, standard headings 12, readable dates 8, bullets that start with a verb 14, bullets with a number 12, length 8, simple layout 10, plain characters 5, no first-person pronouns 4, no clichés 5, file name 2, no personal details or salary 4. Full marks on everything is 100. The keyword match against a job post is shown separately and never changes the score.
Mostly no. An applicant tracking system stores your resume, parses it into fields (name, jobs, dates, skills) and lets recruiters search and filter. What gets you skipped is a parse that loses your dates or skills, and a search for a keyword that is not on your page. This checker tests exactly those two things. We do not quote rejection percentages because we have not seen a dated source that measured one.
A PDF exported from Word or Google Docs (not a scan, not a design tool export) is read well by modern parsers and looks the same everywhere. Send DOCX only when the job post asks for it. Whichever you send, keep one column, no tables, no text boxes, and your contact line in the body of the page, not in the header.
For private companies, a photo, date of birth, marital status and a father's name are not needed and take space; some employers outside India drop such resumes to avoid bias claims. In India many recruiters still expect a photo for some roles, so that one is your call. Current or expected salary should never be on the resume: it anchors the offer before you have spoken.
"Walk me through this gap." "Why only 0.3%, what was left?" The follow-ups come from the bullets you just fixed. ClapAssist is a Mac and Windows app that listens to the call and shows you what to say. It stays out of screen share on every plan; only you can see it.
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