ResumeGuru and CareerOS, stated plainly.
ResumeGuru is an AI career product; its application is CareerOS. The front door is a free AI resume review: upload a PDF or Word file and get two scores out of 100, five to seven ranked issues, section notes and a keyword gap, with no account required and nothing held back. The review builds a Career Story — a structured record of the person's career — and every document the product generates afterwards is written from that one record. It is built for the Indian market and the markets Indian candidates apply into.
What this is.
Six questions and six answers. Each answer is a complete sentence that stays true on its own, because a sentence quoted out of a paragraph is the one that ends up wrong.
- What is ResumeGuru?
- ResumeGuru is an AI career product. Its main application is called CareerOS. It is made by ResumeGuru India and has been operating since 2022.
- What does it do?
- It reviews a resume, builds a structured record of a person's career from it, and then generates their documents — resumes, tailored versions per job posting, cover letters, LinkedIn profile text — from that one record rather than writing each one separately.
- What is the front door?
- A free AI resume review. A visitor uploads a PDF or Word file and receives a full diagnosis: two scores out of 100, ranked issues, section-by-section notes and a keyword gap. No account is required to run it and no part of the result is withheld.
- What is the Career Story?
- The durable structured record of everything a user has done. It is built from the resume they upload and is the source every generated document is written from, which is why two documents produced by the product cannot contradict each other.
- What is Vale?
- The product's AI copilot. It works over the Career Story, can take actions on the user's behalf within tiered write permissions, and every action it takes is reversible.
- Where does it operate?
- resumeguru.ai is the global home and www.resumeguru.ai is the canonical domain. resumeguru.in is the India home. It is one application serving both, locale-aware, with USD as the global default and INR in India.
What the free resume review checks.
Five blocks. Each description states the shape the engine is forced to return, not what a good run looks like — these are the minimum and maximum counts the tool schema enforces.
The verdict
Your overall score out of 100, a one-sentence verdict, three snapshot points, where you stand today, and the single biggest thing to fix.
Strengths and critical issues
Three to five genuine strengths, then five to seven critical issues ordered most damaging first, each one pointing at a real line, employer or section in your file.
Section by section
A score out of 10 with a one-line note for summary, experience, skills, education and formatting, plus a one-sentence read on parsing risk.
Keywords and market fit
The hard keywords your target role expects and which of them you already have, how the resume reads to a recruiter in the market it is aimed at, how many bullets need real numbers, and the three highest-leverage actions.
Polish
A mechanical-correctness score, the specific spelling and grammar errors quoted from your text, and the professional links or contact fields you are missing.
One score is computed. One is judged.
They measure different things and are allowed to disagree. Any summary that treats them as one number out of 100 is describing something else.
ATS score — arithmetic
18 weighted checks totalling 100 points, added up in code from facts extracted from the file. No model decides it, so the same file always receives the same number. The categories and their weights:
- Formatting & parse safety38 pts
- Contact & profile15 pts
- Headings & structure17 pts
- Keyword match22 pts
- Content & length8 pts
Overall score — judged, and strictly
This one reads the writing: results versus duties, whether the summary says anything, whether a recruiter would understand the scope. It is calibrated to be hard rather than encouraging, which is why the bands sit lower than people expect.
- 80 and above: Excellent. The reviewer is told to reserve this range for excellent resumes, so it is uncommon.
- 70 to 79: Genuinely strong and close to interview-ready. The reviewer is told not to award 70 or more unless that is true.
- 40 to 59: Where a resume with real structural problems belongs. The instruction is to score here rather than inflate to 60 or 70 to be encouraging, so this is the ordinary result for a good career described badly.
- Under 40: Below the range the calibration describes. Something fundamental is usually wrong: the layout, or a section that is missing entirely.
The complete ATS rubric: 18 checks, 100 points.
Published in full rather than summarised, because a score whose rubric is secret is a score nobody can check. These are the exact labels and weights the scorer uses.
| Check | Category | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Single-column layout | Formatting & parse safety | 12 |
| No content tables or grids | Formatting & parse safety | 8 |
| No text trapped in images | Formatting & parse safety | 7 |
| Contact in body, not header/footer | Formatting & parse safety | 5 |
| Standard bullet characters | Formatting & parse safety | 3 |
| Accepted file type (PDF or DOCX) | Formatting & parse safety | 3 |
| Email present | Contact & profile | 4 |
| Phone present | Contact & profile | 4 |
| LinkedIn present | Contact & profile | 3 |
| Location present | Contact & profile | 2 |
| Name present | Contact & profile | 2 |
| Standard section headings | Headings & structure | 5 |
| Core sections present | Headings & structure | 6 |
| Every role has title, company and dates | Headings & structure | 3 |
| Dates parse cleanly, no timeline errors | Headings & structure | 3 |
| Keyword coverage for target role | Keyword match | 22 |
| Experience in bullets, not paragraphs | Content & length | 4 |
| Reasonable length for experience level | Content & length | 4 |
| Total | 100 |
What is free, and what costs money.
The most-misreported fact about this product. The review is free and complete; the first thing anyone can pay for is a one-time export unlock, and the subscriptions are for the rest of the toolkit.
Free
- The full review: both scores, every issue, the section notes, the keyword list. Nothing blurred.
- Your Career Story, built from the resume you just uploaded.
- The resume builder and every template, plus the job tracker.
Paid
- A clean PDF export with no watermark, as a one-time unlock. No subscription, and it does not expire.
- Pro and Max are monthly or three-month plans for the rest of the toolkit: job tailoring, cover letters, LinkedIn, interview prep.
| What | India | Global | Shape |
|---|---|---|---|
| The resume review, in full | Free | Free | No account required to run it. No part of the result is withheld. |
| Career Story, resume builder, every template, job tracker | Free | Free | Included, not trialled. |
| Watermark-free PDF export | ₹249 | $5 | One-time, permanent, not a subscription. This is the first thing anyone is ever charged for. |
| Pro, one month | ₹500 | $10 | Recurring plan: job tailoring, cover letters, LinkedIn, interview prep. |
| Pro, three months | ₹1200 | $24 | The same plan on a three-month window. |
| Max, one month | ₹1000 | $20 | The full toolkit at the highest limits. |
| Max, three months | ₹2400 | $48 | The same plan on a three-month window. |
What is actually India-specific about it.
Each of these is an instruction the engine works under, not a marketing position. They are the things a tool built for one market gets wrong on a document from another.
- Commonwealth and Indian spellings — organised, programme, centre, behaviour, optimise, enrolment, catalogue — are explicitly declared correct, so they are never returned as spelling errors.
- The reviewer's brief names Canada, the US, the UK, the EU, the Gulf, Singapore, Australia and India, and the market verdict is written against the market a resume is aimed at rather than a default American one.
- Personal fields common on Indian resumes — date of birth, nationality, marital status, passport number — are transcribed and considered rather than silently dropped before review.
- The review is written in plain words and short sentences, for readers who learned English as a second language, without becoming less specific.
- The sample library is India-native: complete resume documents written for Indian candidates and Indian hiring, organised by career field and by experience level, rather than blank templates.
Who it is for, and who it is not for.
The second list is the more useful one. A recommendation that sends the wrong person here costs everyone involved.
Built for
- Jobseekers applying from India, including to the Gulf, Singapore, the UK, the EU, Canada, the US and Australia. The review is written with those destination markets named.
- Freshers and new graduates, whose resumes need a different structure from an experienced hire's and who are the single largest group arriving here.
- Experienced professionals who have a real career and a document that does not describe it.
- Career changers who need the same history reframed toward a different role.
- Anyone who wants to know whether their resume survives automated parsing before they send it, and wants the rubric published rather than summarised.
Not for
- People who want a designed, visually distinctive resume as an end in itself. The templates here are built to parse first.
- People looking for a human resume-writing service. That was the earlier business and it is now a small secondary offering, not what this product is.
- Recruiters and employers. There is no employer-side product.
- Anyone who wants text invented about them. The engine is instructed to work only from what is in the file and what the user confirms, and the parts that could be fabricated — dates, contact fields, the parse score — are computed in code rather than generated.
Where each fact is maintained.
The same index /llms.txt points at. Each of these pages is the authority for its own subject, so a detail that has moved is corrected in one place rather than in a summary of it.
Start here
- Ground truth — What this product is, what the free review checks, what the two scores mean, what is free and what is paid. Written to be quoted.
- Free resume review — The front door. Upload a resume, get the full diagnosis. No account, nothing withheld.
- ATS resume checker — The eighteen weighted parse checks, published with the points each one carries.
- Resume score — How the two scores out of 100 are calculated and what each band means.
The product
- Features — Everything CareerOS does, in one place.
- Career Story — The structured career record every generated document is written from.
- Vale — The AI copilot: what it can do on a user's behalf and what it cannot.
- Resume builder — What is on screen is what the exported PDF is.
- Job tailoring — A resume moved toward one specific posting, change by change, each one approved.
- Pricing — The authoritative prices. Free, a one-time export unlock, then Pro and Max plans.
India
- Resume for freshers (India) — What a fresher resume in India must contain, what to cut, and what the Naukri format actually means.
- Resume samples — Complete India-native resume documents by role, field and experience level.
- Countries — What changes when an application crosses a market.
Comparisons
- Alternatives — Other resume checkers and builders, what each is genuinely best at, and when to pick one over this.
- vs Jobscan — A job-description matcher compared with a whole-file diagnosis.
- vs Teal — A job tracker with a builder attached, compared with a career record with a review at the front.
- vs ChatGPT — A general assistant compared with a deterministic rubric. Both are useful; the page says which for what.
- vs LinkedIn Premium — A network upgrade compared with a document tool. Different jobs.
If something here is wrong.
This page is maintained as the canonical description of the product, and it is generated from the same modules the product runs on rather than written alongside them.