Free ATS Resume Checker (Canada)
Paste your resume and the job description. Get an instant 0–100 ATS score, the keywords you're missing, and a prioritized fix list — tuned for Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Lever and Taleo.
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We don't store your resume. Rate-limited per IP. Tuned for Canadian recruiters.
What this checker actually looks at
Six honest categories — mapped 1:1 to what the scan returns. No fake "27-point" scoreboard.
Overall score & recruiter-style summary
A 0–100 score plus a short read of what a Canadian recruiter would notice in the first 6 seconds — the same window most screeners spend on your file.
Keyword & NOC 2021 alignment
If you paste a job description we surface the terms you're missing — including NOC 2021 duty phrasing that Canadian ATS keyword searches use.
Strengths we can detect
Concrete things doing work for you: quantified bullets, recognisable Canadian employers, sensible tenure, credential lines newcomers often forget.
Weaknesses & red flags
Where the file looks like it will lose the ranking race — vague responsibilities, verb-only bullets, missing city, non-standard section headings.
Top concrete fixes
A short prioritised list of one-line changes you can apply today — no fluff, no 'consider improving your synergy'.
Canadian conventions
Canadian English spelling, no photo, no SIN or DOB, phone in Canadian format, and NOC-aligned titles in parentheses when your foreign title doesn't map cleanly.
The ATS systems Canadian employers actually use
Five commercial systems plus GC Jobs cover the vast majority of formal Canadian hiring pipelines.
Workday
Runs at most Fortune-500 Canadian subsidiaries, the big banks and the telcos. Its parser handles PDFs well but scrambles two-column layouts — dates land on the wrong job. Section headings must be conventional (Experience, Education, Skills) or the fields go unpopulated.
Greenhouse
The default at most Canadian tech companies — Shopify, Wealthsimple, 1Password, Clio. Parses cleanly, but recruiters filter aggressively on keyword tags they set per role, so JD-mirroring matters more here than at any other ATS.
iCIMS
Common at large retail, healthcare and manufacturing (Loblaw, Sobeys, hospital networks). Strict about headers/footers — anything in a header can be dropped, including your name and phone.
Lever
Mid-size tech and growth-stage startups. Solid parser, but its recruiter view puts a heavy weight on the top third of page one — a strong summary block earns extra attention.
Taleo
Legacy enterprise, provincial Crown corporations, and older federal contractors. Oldest parser of the five: single column, standard fonts (Arial/Calibri), no tables. If your file works in Taleo, it works everywhere.
GC Jobs (federal)
Federal government hiring. Uses a structured questionnaire — your resume matters, but experience narratives you type into the application drive the screening. Language proficiency (English/French) and second-language testing lines belong on the resume itself.
Weak vs. strong: a single bullet
Same job, same person. The right side ranks in ATS keyword search; the left side doesn't.
Weak
Responsible for handling customer inquiries and helping the team improve processes across multiple channels.
- No number, no scope, no tool.
- "Responsible for" — filler verb.
- No keyword a recruiter would search for.
Strong
Resolved 62 inbound customer contacts/day at 87% first-contact resolution; rewrote the 12 most-used macros and cut average handle time from 6m10s to 4m45s.
- Two hard numbers (volume + rate).
- Concrete artifact ("12 most-used macros").
- Before/after outcome the recruiter can quote.
How we're different from Jobscan and Resume Worded
Jobscan and Resume Worded are solid US-first tools. Two honest gaps if you're applying in Canada:
- NOC 2021 keywords. Canadian ATS searches lean on NOC 2021 duty phrasing. US tools don't score against it because it doesn't exist south of the border.
- Canadian conventions. No photo, no SIN, Canadian English (organisation, centre, licence), Canadian phone format, French/English proficiency lines for federal or Quebec roles.
- ATS coverage that matches this market. Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Lever, Taleo and GC Jobs — the six systems Canadian employers actually use.
- No paywall to see your score. One tool, one score, no drip email — we make money if you upgrade to the full Coach, not by charging for the free scan.
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How an ATS reads your resume in Canada — and how to beat it
- Most Canadian mid-size and enterprise employers use an ATS (Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Lever, or Taleo).
- The ATS doesn't reject you — recruiters do. The ATS just decides what they see first.
- Keyword match, parseable formatting, and clear section headings move you up the stack.
- A 70+ score on this checker means a recruiter will see your resume in the first page of results.
- Photos, tables, text boxes, and headers/footers are the four most common parse killers.
What an ATS actually does
An applicant tracking system stores every resume an employer receives and lets recruiters search them. Think of it as Gmail for resumes, with a fuzzy keyword search on top.
When you apply, the ATS parses your file into structured fields — name, contact, jobs, dates, skills. If the parser can't read a section, that section is missing from the recruiter's search. Your resume is still in the system; it just doesn't match when a recruiter types "react developer Toronto NOC 21232".
Most Canadian employers buy one of five systems: Workday (banks, telcos, retail), Greenhouse and Lever (tech and scale-ups), iCIMS (mid-size enterprise), and Taleo (government and legacy enterprise). The parsing rules differ slightly but the failure modes are the same.
What this checker scores you on
- Parse safety — can the file be read at all? (sections, contact, dates)
- Keyword match — do your skills mirror the JD and the NOC?
- Bullet quality — action verb + outcome + metric, not "responsible for".
- Canadian conventions — no photo, no DOB, no marital status, no "Curriculum Vitae".
- Signal density — recent, relevant work near the top.
How to use it in 60 seconds
- Paste your full resume text (or upload the PDF).
- Paste the job description you're targeting. This unlocks the match score.
- Read the missing keywords — these are the words the recruiter will search.
- Apply the top 3 fixes. Re-scan. Aim for 75+.
Before / after bullet rewrites that move the score
Responsible for managing the website and helping with marketing tasks.
Owned the marketing website; shipped 14 landing pages in 2025 and lifted demo signups 38% QoQ.
Action verb, scope, outcome, time-boxed metric.
Worked with team to improve customer service.
Led a 4-person CSR pod at Telus; raised first-contact resolution from 71% to 84% in 6 months.
Specific role, team size, baseline → result.
Used SQL and Python for data analysis.
Cut weekly reporting from 6 hours to 25 minutes by replacing 3 Excel workbooks with a Python + Postgres pipeline.
Concrete tools, concrete impact in time saved.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Putting contact info in the header/footer — most parsers skip it.
- Using a two-column template — Workday and Taleo read left-to-right and scramble it.
- Listing skills as logos or images — the ATS can't read them.
- Pasting a photo — disallowed by Canadian employers and a parse risk.
- Filenaming as 'resume_final_v3.pdf' — use 'firstname-lastname-role.pdf'.
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