See your resume through a recruiter's eyes — in 7 seconds
Recruiters give a resume about seven seconds on the first look. Upload yours and watch a replay of that skim: what they see, what they miss, and where your best result is hiding.
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Page 1 only — that's where the first seven seconds go.
How the 7-second view works
In a 2018 eye-tracking study, the job site Ladders found recruiters spend about 7.4 seconds on a resume's first screen. Resumes with simple layouts, clear section headings and job titles that stand out held their attention; crowded pages, long sentences, multiple columns and missing headings did not.
That first pass checks a short list: your name, your current job title and company, how long you've been there, your previous role and its dates, and your education. This tool finds those spots on page one of your resume and replays the skim in that order. When a spot is missing or hard to find, the spotlight goes looking for it — and comes up empty, the way a hurried reader would.
What this is — and isn't
- It's a simulation based on published research about where recruiters look. It is not a recording of a real recruiter, and every recruiter reads a little differently.
- It's not an ATS check. Applicant tracking systems read files differently from people. If that's what you're worried about, see our Workday parsing test and what an ATS actually does.
- It reads your file with simple rules, so an unusual layout can confuse it. If it says it couldn't find something that's clearly there, that's still worth a look: if it's hard for software to spot in a hurry, it may be for a person too.
- It's private. Your file is read inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored or sent to an AI.
The fix that matters most
The first skim mostly lands on titles, companies and dates — not on bullet points. So your best number usually sits where the first pass doesn't go. Lead your current role with your strongest, most specific result, keep each role's title, company and dates on clear lines of their own, and label sections plainly: Experience, Education, Skills.