Recruiters search Applicant Tracking Systems by keyword and skim the top results. No AI rejects your CV — but if it doesn't match what they search for, or it doesn't parse cleanly, they never see it. Check how you'd show up — free.
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Not an official one. This is the honest version: an ATS (Applicant Tracking System) is the database UK employers use — Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Oracle Taleo — to store and search applications. It does not sit in judgement and reject your CV. Recruiters search it by keyword and skim the top results. Almost no employer configures content-based auto-rejection. So there is no real number an ATS assigns your CV. What there is is a measurable question: when a recruiter searches for this role, would your CV show up — and once it does, does it survive a six-second skim?
Upload your CV and paste the job advert. We measure how much of the advert's language your CV actually contains — the terms a recruiter would search — plus whether it parses cleanly and leads with evidence. You get a Role Fit percentage, the keywords you're missing, and the specific fixes that would make you findable. It's our estimate of your visibility to recruiter searches, not a verdict from any ATS.
Search: recruiters filter the database by keyword — if the advert's terms aren't in your CV, in context, you don't appear in the results. Skim: they read the surfaced CVs at speed; a CV built from tables or columns can extract as scrambled text, burying your experience. Knockouts: hard rules — right to work, required certifications, location — are the genuine instant rejections, and they come from application questions, not from AI reading your CV.
Every job seeker should know how findable their CV is before they apply. The checker is completely free, no account required. If you want the AI to rewrite your CV so recruiters' searches surface it — using only what's true about you — you can tailor your CV for £5.