Free ATS resume checker for Australian jobs.
Paste your resume and the job ad. In about twenty seconds you get an ATS score out of 100, the words the ad uses that your resume does not, and the single change that would close the biggest gap. No signup, no card, and nothing you paste is kept.
What your score means
The score estimates how well your resume matches the language of one specific job ad, which is what an Applicant Tracking System measures before a recruiter sees anything. It is not a judgement of your career. The same resume can score 40 against one ad and 85 against another.
75 to 100
Close match
Your CV uses much of the language the ad uses. Little to change.
55 to 74
Partial match
Relevant experience is there but not always in the ad's words. Worth twenty minutes.
0 to 54
Weak match
Your CV and the ad have little language in common, whatever your experience.
Six things that improve an Australian CV
In roughly the order they tend to matter.
01
Use the employer's exact words
If the ad says "stakeholder engagement" and your resume says "working with clients", a recruiter searching for that phrase may not find you. Match their phrasing wherever it honestly describes what you did.
02
Spell out the acronym and the full term
Write "Applicant Tracking System (ATS)" rather than one or the other. Australian ads are inconsistent about which form they use, and this way you match both.
03
Put the keywords in your experience, not a list
A skills block stuffed with terms scores poorly and reads badly to the human who follows. Work the language into the bullet points where you actually did the thing.
04
Keep the format boring
Single column, real text, standard headings. Tables, text boxes, headers, footers and columns are where parsers lose entire sections of your history.
05
Name your registrations
AHPRA registration, a current licence, a Working with Children Check, a National Police Check. Recruiters often check for these first, and leaving them implied makes that check harder.
06
Tailor for each ad, every time
One resume sent to thirty jobs scores badly against all thirty. The whole point of the score is that it changes with the ad.
Why an Australian resume is scored differently
Many free resume checkers are built for the American market, and the advice they give can quietly work against you here. They often push a one page resume, where Australian resumes commonly run to two or three. They skip registration details that Australian recruiters check first. They have nothing to say about selection criteria, which decide most public sector applications in this country.
Australian ads also carry their own vocabulary. Position descriptions, key selection criteria, essential and desirable requirements, awards and classification levels, state abbreviations like NSW and QLD. A checker that has never seen a SEEK ad or a NSW Health position description will miss all of it.
This checker is tuned for those conventions, because CVelo is built in Australia for Australian applications. See the role by role CV guides for what your specific field is screened on.
Common questions
Is this ATS checker really free?
Yes. One check per day, no account and no card. Nothing you paste is stored. A free CVelo account adds one full application analysis a month with every missing keyword, unlimited re-scoring on that application, a cover letter, and one typed interview practice session.
What is a good ATS score?
It is a measure of how closely your CV matches this particular job ad, not a prediction of what any employer will do. Above 75 means you are using much of the ad's language already. Between 55 and 75, your relevant experience is usually there but not phrased the way the ad phrases it. Below 55, the two have little language in common, which makes your experience harder to find and harder to assess.
Which Applicant Tracking Systems does this reflect?
This is not a replica of any particular vendor's system, and it does not claim to be. Australian organisations use a wide range of recruitment software, with PageUp, Taleo and Workday among the names that come up. What they have in common is that your CV is parsed and searched, so this checker measures the thing you can actually control: how much of the job ad's language your CV contains.
Will you store or share my resume?
The free check on this page does not save your CV. Your text is sent to our AI provider for scoring and is not kept by us. It is never sold and never shared with employers. We never use it to train AI, and our AI provider is contractually barred from doing so.
Does a higher score guarantee an interview?
No, and nothing can. The score tells you how well your CV matches this ad, which is a thing you can improve. Whether you are interviewed depends on your experience, the other applicants and the employer's process, none of which any tool can see. Be sceptical of anything that promises otherwise.
Does this work for government and public sector applications?
It scores your resume the same way, but public sector roles usually also require you to address selection criteria or write a pitch, which is assessed separately by a panel. See our guide to addressing selection criteria for that part.
Keep going
Free selection criteria checker
For government, health and education roles, where the criteria decide it.
Job ad keyword extractor
Not sure your CV is worth tailoring for a role? See what it's actually asking for first.
How ATS scoring works
What the software is actually measuring, and why good candidates get overlooked.
CV guides by role
Keywords, credentials and mistakes for 50 Australian occupations.