Upload your resume and we read it into sections

You upload the resume you already have. We read it into editable sections: your header, summary, experience, education, skills, and the rest. Nothing is typed from scratch.

The file is read in a single pass while you wait, with no queue, no background job, and no email to watch for. When it finishes you land straight in the builder with your content already in place.

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What you can upload

Four file types are accepted: .doc, .docx, .pdf, and .txt. The uploader says so under the button: Only txt, pdf, doc, and docx files accepted.

Files up to 10 MB are accepted. If your resume lives somewhere you cannot export a file from, paste the text in instead, which needs at least 200 characters to work with.

How many resumes you can keep

On the free plan you can keep 1 base resume. That limit is checked before the file is read, so an upload that would go past it stops right away with Upgrade to create additional base resumes. Nothing is parsed and nothing is charged.

Job-tailored copies made by scanning do not count against it. See Base resumes and job-tailored resumes.

What happens to the file

1. We pull the plain text out of it. PDFs, Word files, and text files each take a different route, and PDFs have three extractors that back each other up.
2. The text goes to the parser in one call, with a fixed schema for the sections we support.
3. The result is written to your resume in a single transaction, section by section.
4. Your section order is set from where the headings appeared in your original file, and a first score is generated.

That last step is why an unusual section heading does not break anything. We do not match your headings against a fixed list of approved names, so content lands in the closest section we have rather than being dropped.

When it does not work

If the text cannot be pulled out of the file, you get a dialog naming the specific reason (a scanned PDF, a password, a .doc that stores its text inside shapes) and the fix for it. Those are covered in detail in Why some resumes don't read in cleanly.

A very large or graphics-heavy file takes longer to read. If one does time out, check your resume list before uploading again, because a second attempt starts a fresh read rather than picking up the first.

What to do next

Your resume is now editable section by section. Spend a minute on What to check after your resume is read in to see how everything came through, then start scanning.

More on the resume builder

The AI resume builder page is the overview of what building your resume here gets you.