Resume review: written findings, not just a score.
This free AI review returns strengths, prioritised findings, notes and scores for five sections, suggested role keywords and next steps. Check the feedback against your document and the actual vacancy before applying changes.
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- AI assistance for your application
- Your experience as the starting point
- Review and edit before sending
What a reviewer looks at, in order.
Each of these comes back with a score out of 10 and one line saying why. The line is the useful part, and it has to name something in your file rather than describe resumes in general.
Summary
out of 10Whether the opening says anything a recruiter could not have guessed from your job title, or whether it is four lines of adjectives.
Experience
out of 10Whether your roles describe results or duties, whether the scope of what you ran is visible, and whether the most impressive thing you did is buried.
Skills
out of 10Whether the list is doing work or padding, and whether it matches the vocabulary the roles you want are written in.
Education
out of 10Whether it is placed and weighted correctly for how far into your career you are.
Formatting
out of 10Whether the document holds together for a person reading it quickly, which is a different question from whether software can parse it.
Use specific findings to choose your edits.
The review is asked to prioritise its findings and refer to evidence in your file. Its ranking is an AI judgment, not a measured explanation of why an employer rejected an application.
Each issue is meant to explain a concern and suggest why it matters, with a concrete piece of your resume attached. An exact employer, a section, the bullet it is reacting to. An observation that would be true of any resume is treated as a failed observation, not as advice.
That constraint is the whole difference between a review and a checklist. “Some bullets are vague” is something you already knew. Naming the bullet, the role it sits under, and what a reader concludes from it is the thing you can act on this afternoon.
You also receive suggested role keywords and an assessment of the document’s apparent target. The review counts bullets containing numbers, but a number alone does not prove an achievement. A specific qualitative result can be useful evidence too.
What this review will not do.
Check the findings before using them, and keep the limits of an automated review in mind.
Start with the finding, then improve the wording
Read the findings and try a grounded correction where available. Continue in the builder to edit the document, or ask Vale for writing help using your saved experience. Final downloads are always clean; additional AI work uses your AI allowance.
Check the facts before you use a suggestion
The review should refer to your supplied work. AI can make mistakes: check names, dates, skills and numbers before accepting wording. Never add a missing keyword unless your experience supports it.
Scores reflect the review prompt
The prompt asks for a strict assessment. That does not make a score objective or consistent between runs. Use the specific explanation to decide whether an edit is warranted.
It is not a human reading your resume
The review is AI-generated and free to view. It does not verify your employment or replace specialist review where a role requires particular credentials or application documents.
Is the resume review free?
Yes, all of it. There is no locked half, no report sent after a payment, and no upgrade needed to see the issues. You can read the entire review without giving an email address at all.
How long does a review take?
The review streams in as it is generated. Completion time varies with the document and service load.
Who is reviewing my resume?
The review is generated by AI using a structured set of instructions. It is not a human resume-writing or verification service.
What do I do with the review afterwards?
The issues become a queue you can work through. Keeping the review with one email turns your resume into a Career Story, and every issue it found is attached to it so you can close them one at a time instead of starting a new document.
Can I review more than one resume?
Not while you are logged out. The free review is one per visitor: come back or upload again and you are handed the review you already have rather than a new one, which is what a returning visitor usually wants anyway. Keeping it gives you an account, and further reviews run from there.
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