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Tools for applying for work and understanding what you are being offered. Everything runs in your browser — your resume, the job description and your salary details never leave the device.

The document itself

Build it, or check the one you have. What a parser recovers, how long it runs, and whether the file survives its own export.

Resume BuilderA single-column resume with real headings and nothing that breaks extraction — and every Word export is read back and checked block by block before you send it.Start here Parser TestUpload the file you actually send and see the text a parser recovers, the contact fields it finds, and what your formatting broke.Open Resume CheckerPaste your resume and see what a text extractor actually recovers — contact details, headings, dates and bullets — checked against the constructs that genuinely break parsing.Open Length CheckerEstimated pages and density measured against the convention for your career stage, including the two stages that have no upper limit.Open

Tailoring it to a job

What a posting is actually asking for, and which of its requirements your own words evidence rather than merely name.

Resume vs Job DescriptionFinds which requirements your resume evidences, which appear only in a skills list, and which are missing — with the job's own wording and a question about what you did.Open Job Keyword ExtractorSeparates genuine requirements from nice-to-haves, ranks by how often the posting repeats a term, and lists location and authorisation constraints without scoring them.Open Skills ExtractorGroups every skill in your resume and separates what you describe doing from what merely sits in a comma-separated list.Open Bullet & Verb CheckerDuty phrasing, bullets carrying no evidence, and verbs you lean on — with alternatives drawn only from verbs that mean the same thing.Open

Writing it

Every one of these rearranges, labels or measures words you supplied. None of them writes a sentence for you, and that is deliberate.

Achievement StatementsGive the parts of one achievement and see them arranged three ways, with what each ordering claims spelled out. No figure, employer or outcome is added.Open Cover Letter BuilderFour blocks in the order a reader goes through them, checked against the posting, exported to Word and verified before you send it.Open Cover Letter vs JobA requirement counts as supported only when the sentence naming it also describes doing something. A letter that lists the job's words back at it scores nothing.Open LinkedIn HeadlineYour role, strengths and proof arranged and counted against both the 220-character field limit and the shorter length that survives a search result.Open LinkedIn AboutSix blocks in the order people read them, with the visible part before the fold counted separately from the whole.Open

The interview

Preparation, not prediction. Nobody publishes an interview process, and anyone selling you a named employer's questions is selling scraped anecdote.

Interview QuestionsEvery question traced to a line in the posting, with the requirements your own resume does not evidence named first. Predicts nothing about a particular employer.Open STAR AnswersJoins your four blocks, measures the balance and the speaking time, and flags an action that is too small or a setup that has swallowed the answer.Open

Pay and offers

Gross figures with the assumptions on the page. There is no take-home estimate here, deliberately.

Salary & HourlyBoth directions, with hours per week and paid weeks per year as visible inputs — because the same salary is several different hourly rates depending on them.Open Total CompensationDivides an equity grant across its vesting period rather than counting it at face value, and keeps guaranteed money visibly separate from variable and speculative.Open Offer ComparisonMoney on one side, working pattern and commute beside it — never converted into a single score, because that trade is the part only you can make.Open Raise CalculatorThe change in cash and percent, and what it is worth after inflation. A rise below inflation is a pay cut, and that comparison is never in the letter.Open Freelance RateWorks back from the income you need through costs and a set-aside to a rate built on realistic billable hours, not a 2,080-hour year.Open

What this will not tell you

No applicant-tracking system publishes its ranking logic, and two employers running the same product can have it configured completely differently. Any tool offering a pass rate, a compatibility percentage, or approval by a named system is describing something it cannot see.

What can be tested honestly is the document itself: whether the text comes out, whether the sections are recognisable, whether the dates are unambiguous, and how it compares with a job description you supply. That is what these do, and the wording throughout says so.

Nothing here writes your resume for you

Where a requirement is missing, you get the job's own words and a question — what did you do, at what scale, and what happened as a result. You do not get a sentence to paste.

That is deliberate rather than cautious. Every line on a resume is something an interviewer can ask about, and a generated achievement is a question you cannot answer. Tools that fill these in optimise the document at the cost of the conversation it exists to get you into.

Why there is no take-home pay calculator

Take-home pay depends on jurisdiction, tax year, filing status, pension arrangements, student loan plans and local levies. A figure that is wrong by a little is still a figure people plan around.

Publishing that credibly needs maintained authoritative data for every jurisdiction and year we would appear to cover, and we do not have it. All the money tools here are explicitly gross.

What is deliberately not here

No ATS score or pass prediction. Nobody outside a vendor can produce one, and a confident number would be invented.

No generated bullets, metrics, credentials or employers. A missing qualification is reported as missing.

No scoring against protected or proxy criteria. Location, work authorisation, travel and schedule requirements are shown because they matter practically, and excluded from every count.

No take-home pay estimates without maintained tax data, which we do not maintain.

Nothing uploaded. Resume text, job descriptions, contact details and salary figures are processed on your own device and are never passed to the analytics or advertising scripts.

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