Resume helper, by Resume Worded★Rated 4.9 on Trustpilot · 10M+ job seekers
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Useful resume help answers three questions: what to include and what to cut, how to phrase your experience so the impact is visible, and how to format the document so recruiters and screening software can both read it. Upload your resume and the resume helper checks all three, line by line, against 30+ criteria.
Most resumes do not fail on typos. They fail on three harder problems: they include the wrong things, they describe work without showing its impact, and they are formatted in ways that recruiters and screening software find hard to read. Resume help worth taking has to address all three.
What to include is a selection problem. A recruiter spends seconds on the first pass, so every line competes with every other line: an internship from eight years ago crowds out last year's promotion, and a paragraph-long objective pushes your best work below the fold. Cutting is usually worth more than adding.
Phrasing is an evidence problem. "Responsible for managing client accounts" names a duty; "Managed 24 client accounts and renewed 95% of them" proves a result. Weak verbs, buzzwords, and bullets without a single number are the most common weaknesses in resumes that get passed over, and they are also the fastest to fix.
Formatting is a readability problem, for people and for software. Grammar and spelling mistakes, dense blocks of text, non-standard section headings, and layouts built on tables or graphics all cost you reads: some by the hiring manager, and some by the applicant tracking system that parses your resume before anyone sees it.
The three help areas on one page: cut what earns nothing, quantify what you did, and keep the strong lines exactly as they are.
The resume helper reads your resume this way automatically and checks it against 30+ criteria across these areas. Upload it and you get an overall score plus specific feedback on each line, so you know which fixes are worth your time first.
There is a reliable way to answer this, because rejection itself tells you nothing. When a resume is screened out, the reply is a form email at best; no recruiter writes back to explain what went wrong. The honest signals live in your own document and your own results, and there are three worth checking.
The first is a numbers audit. Read your resume and count the bullets that contain a figure: a percentage, a dollar amount, a team size, a time saved. If most of your bullets describe duties without a measurable result, you are underplaying your own record. Saying you wrote articles for a company is a duty; saying your articles grew its traffic 150% is a case for hiring you, and only one of those survives a recruiter's skim.
The second is your template. Decorative templates with columns, icons, and stylized fonts read as effort, but they work against you twice: they pull a human reader's attention away from the content, and they confuse the software that parses your resume into a database. If the template is doing more visual work than your bullets, simplify it.
The third is keywords. If you cannot say which skills the jobs you want are screening for, or whether those exact terms appear on your resume, you are applying blind. Postings state their requirements openly, and a resume that ignores them gets filtered out before a person is ever involved.
The three checks that predict rejections: no numbers, an unparseable template, and missing keywords.
You rarely get a second chance at the same job, so the time to run these checks is before you apply, not after the silence. The resume helper runs all three in about 30 seconds and shows you what a recruiter and an applicant tracking system will each see.
The method
How to improve your resume in five steps
This is the method behind the helper's feedback, and it works whether or not you ever use the tool. Done entirely by hand it takes a few focused hours; the helper compresses the diagnosis, which is the hard part, into about 30 seconds.
Step 1
Cut it to what is relevant
One to two pages, recent and relevant roles first. Delete the objective statement, the references line, and any bullet that describes a duty every person in that job performs. What remains is the material worth improving.
Step 2
Rewrite every bullet around a result
The pattern is a strong verb, the work, and a measurable outcome: managed what, built what, improved what by how much. Find a number for every bullet you honestly can; the bullets where you cannot are candidates for cutting.
Step 3
Fix the format for both readers
Standard section headings, a single column, a common font, consistent dates. No tables, graphics, or headers carrying real content. This is what keeps your resume readable in a six-second human skim and intact through ATS parsing.
Step 4
Match your language to the jobs you want
Use the titles and skill terms your target postings use, where they are true of you, and put them inside experience bullets rather than a bare skills list. A keyword attached to real work counts double.
Step 5
Get feedback, fix, and re-check
You cannot proofread your own resume the way a stranger reads it. The resume helper grades it against 30+ checks and lists the fixes in order of impact; make the edits, upload again, and confirm the score moved.
The screening software
Resume help for the ATS: how screening software reads your resume
An applicant tracking system, or ATS, is the software employers use to collect and filter applications. When you apply, it parses your resume into a structured profile: contact details, job titles, dates, skills. Recruiters then search and filter those profiles, often using the exact terms from the job posting, and only the resumes that survive both steps get read by a person.
Two qualities decide whether yours survives, and they are mechanical rather than mysterious: simplicity and relevancy. Simplicity means the parser can read your resume at all: standard section headings like Experience and Education, a single-column layout, common fonts, and no content buried in tables, text boxes, headers, or footers. Relevancy means the parsed profile actually contains the terms recruiters search for, which come straight from the posting's requirements.
The frustrating part is that failures are silent. A qualified candidate whose resume parses badly simply never surfaces in the recruiter's search results, and nobody tells them that is why the callbacks stopped coming.
Simplicity gets you through the parser; relevancy gets you found in the search. A resume needs both before a person reads it.
The resume helper checks the simplicity half directly: it parses your resume the way an ATS does and flags anything that will not survive, from section headings and fonts to layouts that scramble in parsing. For the relevancy half, matching your resume against one specific posting, the resume tailor compares your resume to a job description and lists every missing keyword.
The resume helper is also known as Score My Resume, the resume checker Resume Worded has run since 2017 and that more than 10 million job seekers have used. It was built with hiring managers, and its 30+ checks encode what they screen for, grouped into categories like impact, brevity, style, and the skills employers expect for your target roles.
Upload your resume and it returns a score out of 100 with line-by-line feedback: the typos and formatting problems, the buzzwords, the bullets missing numbers, the skill gaps. Each finding explains why it matters and what to change, so most fixes are edits you can make in minutes rather than a rewrite.
It is free to use. Read the report, make the changes, then upload again to confirm the score moved; a score of 85 or higher means your resume is in strong shape for recruiters and screening software alike.
Resume helper · score report
Your score
71 is close, not done. Aim for 85 or higher; the findings on the right are the fastest points to gain.
✓Length: one page, right for this experience level
✓Sections: standard headings, parses cleanly
By category
Impact6 bullets have no measurable result
Brevity2 bullets run past two lines
Style3 uses of "responsible for"
Skills2 expected skills not found
This is the report the helper returns on your real resume. Every finding links to the line it came from.
Upload your resume to the resume helper on this page. It checks your resume against 30+ criteria and returns a score with line-by-line feedback, entirely online, and your first report is free. It flags the mistakes that get resumes screened out most often: grammar and formatting errors, overused jargon and buzzwords, templates that screening software cannot parse, bullets with no measurable results, and missing skills for your target roles.
Who can help me with my resume for free?
The resume helper, also called Score My Resume, reviews your resume without a fee. Upload it and the tool does the work: it grades your resume against 30+ checks grouped into categories such as impact, brevity, style, and skills, then walks you through the fixes line by line. If you want your weakest lines rewritten for you rather than just diagnosed, the resume rewriter drafts improved versions built from the experience already on your resume.
What does a resume helper actually do?
A resume helper improves the resume you already have rather than writing a new one. This one parses your resume the way an applicant tracking system does, grades it against 30+ criteria hiring managers screen for, and returns specific feedback for each weak line: which verb to replace, where a number is missing, which formatting choice will not survive parsing. You make the edits yourself, so every line stays true and stays in your words.
Is a resume helper the same as a resume builder?
No. A builder produces a new document from a template, which is useful when you have no resume at all. A helper improves the document employers are actually seeing: it finds the weak phrasing, the missing results, and the formatting problems in the resume you already send out. If your applications go out but interviews do not come back, the fix is usually feedback on the existing resume, not a new template.
How do I know if my resume is good enough?
Run three checks. Count the bullets that contain a measurable result; most of them should. Confirm the layout is simple enough for screening software: standard headings, a single column, no tables or graphics carrying real content. Then check that the skills your target jobs ask for actually appear inside your experience bullets. The resume helper runs these checks and more in about 30 seconds and returns a score out of 100; a score of 85 or higher means your resume is in strong shape.
