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Upload Your CV, See It Scored: What the Engine Actually Checks

You can now upload a Word or PDF CV and have it read, scored and rebuilt in your browser. Here are the ten things being checked, so you can check them yourself.

Oluwaseyi Ashiru 5 August 2026 5 min read

Our CV tools now accept a file. Drop in a .docx or .pdf and it is read, pulled apart into fields and scored — entirely inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded to any server, because there is no server to upload it to.

One honest limitation up front: a scanned PDF, meaning a photograph of a printed CV, contains no text layer. Nothing can be extracted from it. If that is what you have, retype it or use the original Word file.

Below are the ten checks. You do not need the tool to apply them — you can do all ten with your own document open beside you.

1. Machine-readable structure

Text in tables, headers, footers, or text boxes frequently vanishes when parsed. Columns get read across rather than down, scrambling your sentences. Keep to a single column of ordinary paragraphs.

2. A title that matches the role

If the posting says Customer Support Specialist and your CV says Client Services Officer, you have introduced a translation step. Mirror the employer's language where it is honestly true of you.

3. Evidence of remote capability

Distributed teams need to know you can work without someone standing over you. Timezone, asynchronous collaboration, tools you have actually used, work delivered across borders — say it explicitly.

4. Numbers in the bullets

"Improved response times" is a claim. "Cut first-response time from nine hours to four across a six-person team" is evidence. Roughly half your bullets should carry a figure.

5. Verbs at the front

Start bullets with what you did. "Responsible for handling" wastes three words before the content arrives.

6. The employer's own keywords

Take the job description, list the recurring nouns — the tools, methods and responsibilities — and make sure the true ones appear in your CV in the words the employer used. This is not gaming; it is answering the question asked.

7. Contact details that work internationally

A professional email, a phone number in full international format, your city and country, your timezone, and a LinkedIn URL that resolves.

8. Length matched to experience

Under five years, one page. More than that, two. Three pages says you cannot prioritise.

9. A summary that is about them

Three lines maximum, and every one about the value you bring, not the opportunity you seek.

10. Consistency

Same date format, same tense rules, same punctuation. Sloppiness here is read as sloppiness everywhere.

Score it honestly

Give yourself a point per item. Under six, your representation joint is your problem, and no amount of extra applications will fix it. Seven or eight, you are close — fix the two and reapply to the roles that ignored you. Nine or ten, and if you are still not hearing back, your leak is aim, not representation. Move on to targeting.

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