Roast my CV—for free
Upload a PDF, DOCX, or TXT file and get direct feedback on the words, evidence, organization, and general text readability.
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What you receive
- ✓Overall, content, structure, and general ATS-readability scores
- ✓Section-by-section criticism tied to the text in your CV
- ✓Concrete editing priorities
First: what do you mean by CV?
In the UK and much of Europe, a CV is the standard document used for most job applications. The review applies in the same way it does to a US resume.
In US academia, medicine, and research, a curriculum vitae is a longer record of appointments, publications, teaching, grants, and service. The tool can still critique clarity and organization, but it should not tell you to force a twenty-year academic record onto one page.
What the CV roast checks
Can the reader find your value quickly?
A job title and a list of duties are not enough. Strong entries show scale, context, and what changed because you were there.
Does the document repeat itself?
Long CVs often accumulate duplicate project descriptions, old coursework, and skills already demonstrated elsewhere. The review flags repetition in the extracted text.
Does the text survive extraction?
If a multi-column layout arrives in the wrong order, the tool can see the same scrambled text. It cannot judge the visual design or promise that every employer's system will behave the same way.
A CV rewrite example
Before
“Conducted research and assisted with experiments in the lab.”
After
“Designed and ran 84 tensile-strength tests for a recycled polymer study; analysis supported a co-authored paper submitted to Polymer Testing.”
The example is fictional. Use your real study, method, volume, and outcome. More patterns are available in our resume roast examples.
CV conventions are local
Do not let a generic tool flatten useful local conventions. The UK's National Careers Service recommends clear headings, consistent formatting, and tailoring the CV to the advertised role. Europass similarly emphasizes readable, role-relevant experience for European applications.
Before uploading
- Remove national ID numbers, full street addresses, and other details an employer does not need.
- Make sure text is selectable; scanned image-only files cannot be reviewed accurately.
- Use the version intended for one kind of role, not a master CV containing every project you have ever touched.
What the tool does not do
It does not compare your CV with a job advertisement, validate your claims, inspect every visual detail, or reproduce a specific employer's applicant tracking system. It gives a structured second opinion based on the text it can extract.
That boundary is deliberate. Read the exact scoring methodology and data flow before you upload anything sensitive.
Ready for an honest second opinion?
Keep the changes that make your CV more accurate and easier to read. Ignore anything that does not fit your field.
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