How to upload your resume to the job tracker

Upload your resume to your profile

Your resumes live on your profile, which the dashboard and the Job Tracker share.

1. In the Job Tracker, open the account menu at the bottom of the sidebar and click View Profile. Your profile opens in the dashboard.
2. Open the Work experience tab. Your resumes are at the top, under Resumes.
3. Click Upload a resume, or drop a file onto the box below your resumes. You can upload a PDF or Word (.docx) file of up to 5 MB.
4. If you have more than one resume, click Make primary on the one you want to use by default. Your Primary resume is the one the Resume Analyzer reads.

On Lite, the tab shows how many of your 2 resumes you've used. Click Analyze in Job Tracker next to your primary resume, or Back to Job Tracker at the top of the page, to return. For more on your profile, see Edit your profile.

Run a resume analysis

1. Click Resume Analyzer in the Job Tracker sidebar. The page asks Should you apply? and shows how many checks you have left this month.
2. Under The role, pick one of your pending applications from the tracker, or click Paste a job description instead and enter the target role, company and job description. If the application you pick has no saved job description, the analyzer looks it up for you. If it can't find one, it asks you to paste it.
3. Under Your resume, your primary resume is selected. Choose another saved resume if you want, or click Manage resumes on Profile to add one on your profile. If you haven't saved a resume yet, you can drop in a PDF or Word file, or paste your resume as text, for this analysis only. Once the file is read, you'll see how many words were read, with Replace and Remove links. If the text can't be read, try a PDF saved from Word or Google Docs, or paste the text.
4. Click Analyze against the company (or Analyze this job if you didn't enter a company).

No job in mind? Click Run it next to No job in mind? Run a resume check to check your resume on its own.

Each job analysis or resume check uses one of your checks for the month. If an analysis fails, it doesn't count, and neither does one that ends in Don't apply yet because of a deal-breaker. When your monthly checks are used up, the analysis uses any checks you've bought. You can also start an analysis from a job in your tracker: click Check this application in the job's panel (see How to track job applications).

Read your results

A job analysis takes about 20 seconds. Your results open on the Results tab and are saved automatically:

• The verdict at the top: Apply with confidence., Apply, but prepare well., Strengthen it first. or Don't apply yet, with a match score out of 100 and how many of the job's requirements your resume shows (met, partly or not shown).
• The job ad, marked up against your resume. Each requirement is highlighted: Your resume shows it, Partly shown, Not shown yet, or Not scored: a duty or a hiring step. Click a requirement to see the line From your resume that covers it. For a gap, Do you have this? suggests a line to add if you have the experience, and Rewritten for this job offers a stronger version of one of your lines; click Copy line to copy it. Use Previous and Next gap to move through them.
• Why explains the verdict, with three Next steps.
• Deal-breakers and Level flag anything that could rule you out, such as where the job can hire, and whether the role's level fits. Some results also include Prepare for this notes about the hiring process.
• What strong candidates show and Resume fixes, including your Resume Builder grade.

Click Run another analysis to start again, or Open in Resume Builder to work on your resume.

A resume check shows your ATS score, What's working and Fix these first. Click Save analysis to keep it. Saved analyses appear under Recent on the Input tab.

The analysis helps you improve your resume, but it does not guarantee an interview.

Next steps

After updating your resume, upload the new version and run the analysis again to check whether your scores improve. If you're actively applying, keep your tracker up to date with How to track job applications.