How to Check and Fix Your Resume With AI in Under 5 Minutes

Run the five-minute check now

Upload your resume and get your score, recommendations and rewrites in roughly 30 to 60 seconds.

The tool runs on Google Gemini using your own free API key. Get one from Google AI Studio, which takes about a minute, and paste it into the field on the page. Two things about that key:

• It is stored only in that browser's local storage. InterviewMan never receives it.
• Your resume file goes straight from your browser to Google's Gemini API. InterviewMan never receives or stores the resume either.

Once the key is saved in that browser, this step disappears. Later runs start at step 2.

Step 2: upload the resume (10 seconds)

Drop the file in and wait. Analysis takes roughly 30 to 60 seconds, a bit longer for a dense three-page resume than a tight one-pager.

Step 3: read the overall score and grade (20 seconds)

You get a number from 0 to 100 and a letter grade from A to F. The number is the equal-weight average of four of the scores: ATS compatibility, human readability, content impact and market alignment.

Here is the rubric the tool uses, so you know what the number means:

Do not get attached to the number itself. Its real job is to give you a before and after. The useful question is not "is 74 good", it is "did the fixes move 74 up".

Step 4: read the eight section scores (1 minute)

This is where the diagnosis actually lives. You get eight scores:

• ATS compatibility: how cleanly the document parses into structured fields.
• Human readability: how quickly a person skimming can find what matters.
• Content impact: whether your bullets describe results or duties.
• Market alignment: how well the resume reads against the kind of role it is aiming at.
• Document synopsis: the overall shape and completeness of the document.
• Data identification: whether key details like contact information and dates are present and findable.
• Lexical analysis: word choice, verb strength, repetition, filler.
• Semantic analysis: whether the meaning is clear and specific rather than vague.

Find your two lowest. Those are your five minutes' worth of work. Everything else can wait for a later pass.

Alongside the scores you get a document check with ATS compliance, file type, file size, page count and word count, and a contact detection panel covering phone, email, LinkedIn, GitHub and portfolio. Read the contact panel carefully. If something you know is in the document is not detected, it is sitting somewhere the parser cannot reach, usually a header, a footer, a text box or an image.

Step 5: skim the skills and keywords (30 seconds)

The report lists the hard skills and soft skills it detected, plus a keyword list. Two questions to ask:

Is anything important missing? If you have used a tool daily for three years and it is not detected, it is not on the page clearly enough. Put it in your skills section in plain text.

Is anything there that should not be? Detected skills from a job you left six years ago suggest the resume is weighted toward your past rather than your target.

One thing this does not do: it does not take a job description, so it is not telling you which keywords a specific posting wants. It is telling you what your own resume currently says about you.

Step 6: work through the recommendations and rewrites (2 minutes)

The recommendations come as a numbered list. Read them in order, because they are written as actions rather than observations.

Below them sit the suggested rewrites. Each one shows your original text, the suggested text, an explanation of why it is better, and an improvement type: clarity, impact, conciseness, active voice, quantification, keyword optimization, grammar or formatting.

A typical example. Original:

Worked with the sales team to improve the onboarding process.

Suggested, tagged quantification:

Rebuilt customer onboarding with the sales team, cutting time to first value from 21 days to 9 and raising 90-day retention by 12 points.

Now the important part. Read the improvement type on each suggestion, not just the text. If seven of your rewrites are tagged quantification, your real problem is that you never wrote down numbers, and fixing that across the whole resume matters more than accepting any single suggestion.

Run the five-minute check now

Upload your resume and get your score, recommendations and rewrites in roughly 30 to 60 seconds.

And check every number against reality. The suggested text is a template with plausible-sounding figures where yours should go. Put your real ones in, or drop the claim. A number you cannot defend in the interview is a trap you set for yourself.

Step 7: apply the rewrites and download (30 seconds)

Open the improved-resume view. It shows before and after with the changed lines highlighted, and you tick which rewrites to apply. Untick anything that is not true about your work or does not sound like you.

Then download the improved resume as a Word (.docx) file. There is no PDF download, which is deliberate: you should open the Word file and edit it before it goes anywhere. There is also no saved history, so save the file somewhere you will find it again.

Step 8: re-run it (about 1 minute)

Upload the edited file and compare. This is the step people skip and it is the one that teaches you the most, because you find out which changes actually moved the score and which just felt productive.

Two or three passes usually gets a weak resume into the good band. Chasing 100 is not worth it, since the last few points tend to require claims you cannot honestly make.

If you want to see finished reports before doing this yourself, there are examples at /resume-radar/examples.

The five-minute version

For anyone who wants the compressed list:

1. Export your resume as PDF or DOCX, under 5 MB.
2. Open /resume-radar and paste your free Gemini key once.
3. Upload, wait 30 to 60 seconds.
4. Note the two lowest section scores.
5. Fix anything the document check or contact detection flags.
6. Accept the rewrites you can defend, put your real numbers in.
7. Download the .docx, edit it, re-run once.

Then the resume is not the bottleneck any more, the interview is. That is what InterviewMan is built for: live answer suggestions while you are on the call, at $30 per month or $12 per month billed yearly.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an account to use Resume Radar?

No. There is no sign-up, no account and no credit card. The only setup is pasting your own free Google Gemini API key from Google AI Studio, which takes about a minute and only has to be done once per browser.

Where does my resume go?

Straight from your browser to Google's Gemini API, and nowhere else. InterviewMan never receives or stores your resume, and never receives your API key, which stays in your browser's local storage. That also means there is no saved history on our side, so keep your own copies of the files you download.

What file types and sizes work?

PDF, DOC and DOCX, up to 5 MB. A scanned or photographed resume saved as a PDF will not work, because there is no selectable text in it to read. If you cannot highlight the text in your PDF viewer, export a fresh copy from your word processor.

Can I check my resume against a specific job posting?

Not with this tool. Resume Radar does not take a job description, so it does not do posting-by-posting keyword matching. It analyzes your resume on its own and scores market alignment from what the document says. Tailoring to a named job is still a manual step you do afterwards.

How many times should I run it?

Two or three passes is the sweet spot. The first run finds the structural problems, the second confirms your fixes worked, and a third is worth it only if you made substantial content changes. Running it repeatedly to squeeze out the last few points usually pushes you toward claims you cannot back up in an interview.

Can I get the improved resume as a PDF?

No, the download is a Word (.docx) file only. That is intentional, because the improved version is a draft that needs your edits before it goes to an employer. Once you have edited it, export your own PDF from Word or any other editor.

See also

• Understanding your resume score: what each section means
• 7 resume mistakes that are costing you interviews
• ATS resume guide 2026
• How to write a resume summary that works
• See example Resume Radar reports

Run the five-minute check now

Upload your resume and get your score, recommendations and rewrites in roughly 30 to 60 seconds.