The layout scrambles
Two columns, tables and text boxes can come out of a parser in the wrong order.
Skills 2023 Python Experience Intern, SQL Fintech Education B.Tech reports
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Check your ATS score, tailor your resume to any job description and download a recruiter-ready PDF. Built for job seekers in India.
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- Free ATS check1 a day, no card
- Pay in rupeesUPI, cards, netbanking
- ATS-safe PDFsSingle column, real text
- Works in your AIChatGPT, Claude, Cursor
One ATS-friendly PDF for every portal you apply on
- Naukri
- Indeed
- foundit
- Instahyre
- Internshala
- Cutshort
- Wellfound
- Unstop
- Company career pages
- Campus placement cells
FreshersSoftware engineersDigital marketersData analystsProduct managersSales executivesNursesAccountantsTeachersMBA grads
The problem
Why your resume isn't getting shortlisted
Before a recruiter reads your resume, software usually does. Three things quietly knock good candidates out.
Recruiters search their applicant pool by keyword. If yours can't be read, it can't be found.
The keywords are missing
You did the work, but described it in different words from the job ad.
33%
- Power BI
- SQL
- Dashboards
- Excel
The bullets say too little
Duties instead of results. Nothing a recruiter can picture or compare.
Responsible for sales in the region.
Managed 40 key accounts across Pune, closing renewals every quarter.
Live demo
Free ATS resume checker: see what the software sees
Pick a role and switch between a typical resume and the PopCVs version. Same experience, very different keyword match.
Pick a role
The job ad asks for
- Python
- SQL
- Internship
- Projects
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
Fresher, B.TechOriginal resume33- Did a summer internship at a fintech startup.
- Made a college project for tracking attendance.
- Was part of the coding club and took part in hackathons.
Real experience, in words the software doesn't look for.
ATS score checker
What your ATS score actually checks
Seven rule-based checks catch formatting and structure problems. Three AI reviews judge clarity, impact and keywords. Every point comes with a fix. You get 1 free ATS check every day, then 1 credit each.
82sample ATS score
Strong, with 3 quick fixes
Fixes are ranked, so you always know what to do first.
Check my resume freeContact info
100Name, email, phone, city and LinkedIn are all there and readable.
Rule check
Sections
100Standard headings an ATS expects: experience, education, skills.
Rule check
Dates
80Every role has a start and end date in a consistent format.
Rule check
Bullet points
75Bullets start with a verb and stay short enough to scan.
Rule check
Measurable results
55How many bullets carry a number, a scale or an outcome.
Rule check
Summary
90A short summary that says who you are and what you want.
Rule check
Length
100One page for freshers, two at most with real experience.
Rule check
Clarity
85Plain language a recruiter outside your team understands.
AI review
Impact
70Results and ownership, not just a list of duties.
AI review
Keywords
65The skills and tools your target roles actually ask for.
AI review
Resume examples
A resume builder for every role, not just tech
From your first job after college to your next big move, PopCVs knows what each kind of job description asks for.
Built for job seekers across India
Late nights before placement season, sorted.
How it works
How to make an ATS-friendly resume in 4 steps
From upload to a resume that's ready to send, and you approve every change along the way.
Step 1
Import
Upload your resume as PDF or Word, or your LinkedIn profile PDF. PopCVs turns it into a clean, editable resume.
Step 2
Check
Get your ATS score with the fixes that matter most: missing sections, weak bullets, formatting traps and keywords.
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Your ATS score
Step 3
Tailor
Paste the job description. See your match score and missing keywords, then approve the rewrite line by line.
Step 4
Apply
Download a single-column PDF that every ATS can read, plus a matching cover letter for the same job.
Job match
Tailor your resume to any job description
Paste the job ad. PopCVs finds the skills it asks for, shows your match score, and rewrites your bullets toward it. You approve every line.
Job description
We're hiring a Data Analyst to own our weekly reporting. You'll build Power BI dashboards, write SQL against our warehouse, lead data cleaning for branch data and automate work with Python. Strong Excel skills and clear stakeholder communication are a must.
Match score
86%
from 41% before tailoring
Your resume, tailored
- Built weekly sales dashboards in Power BI, pulling data with SQL.
- Handled data cleaning for branch data in Excel before every report.
- Wrote Python scripts to automate repetitive spreadsheet work.
We never invent your experience. We help you say what you've really done, in the words the job is looking for.
Truth check
An AI resume builder that won't invent your experience
Every rewrite is checked against your original resume. If a new company, title, date or number appears that you never gave us, it's flagged before you can accept it.
- Rewords and reorders what you wrote
- Never adds employers, degrees or numbers
- You approve each change, line by line
Suggested change
Handled sales for the western region.
Grew western region sales by 30% in one year.
“30%” isn't in your resume. Remove it, or add the real number yourself before accepting.
Resume templates
ATS-friendly resume templates, free to download
Four single-column designs with real, selectable text. Switch templates any time; your content stays put. PDF downloads are always free.
Ananya Sharma
Data Analyst · Bengaluru · ananya@example.com
Summary
Experience
Education
Ananya Sharma
Data Analyst · Bengaluru · ananya@example.com
Summary
Experience
Education
Ananya Sharma
Data Analyst · Bengaluru · ananya@example.com
Summary
Experience
Projects
Education
Skills
Ananya Sharma
Data Analyst · Bengaluru · ananya@example.com
Summary
Experience
Education
Cover letter generator
A cover letter written from your resume, for this job
Pick a tone, paste the job description, and get a short, specific letter that only mentions what's really on your resume.
Dear Hiring Manager,
I'm applying for the Data Analyst role at your Bengaluru office. For the last two years I've built the weekly sales dashboards in Power BI that our regional managers use, with the data pulled in SQL.
I also took over data cleaning for branch data and wrote Python scripts that automated most of our repetitive spreadsheet work.
I'd welcome the chance to bring the same care to your reporting team.
Ananya Sharma
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Connect once with our MCP server and ask your AI to check, tailor and export your resume. Same account, same credits.
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Windsurf
Tailor my resume to this Data Analyst job and give me the PDF. job-description.txt
PopCVs match_job
PopCVs tailor_resume
PopCVs export_pdf
Done. I worked Power BI, SQL and data cleaning into three of your bullets, using only what was already in your resume. Resume-Data-Analyst.pdf
For freshers
Resume format for freshers: the one-page layout that works
Placement season or off-campus, recruiters scan fresher resumes in the same order. Build yours in that order.
- 1
Contact and links
Name, phone, email, city, LinkedIn and GitHub or portfolio. No photo, no date of birth.
- 2
Career objective
Two lines: the role you want and what you bring to it.
- 3
Projects and internships
Your strongest proof. Say what you built, with which tools, and what happened.
- 4
Education
Degree, college, year and CGPA if it helps. Skip Class 10 once you have a degree.
- 5
Skills and certifications
The tools the job ad names, plus courses like NPTEL, Google or AWS.
Resume structure
What to include in a resume in 2026
Seven sections, in the order recruiters and applicant tracking systems expect to find them.
01Contact details
Name, phone, professional email, city and LinkedIn. Put them in the body, not a header graphic, so they're parsed.
02Summary or objective
Two to four lines. Experienced: your strongest results. Fresher: the role you want and why you fit.
03Work experience
Most recent first. Title, company, city, dates, then three to six bullets that start with a verb.
04Projects
Essential for freshers and career switchers. Name the tools and the outcome.
05Education
Degree, institution, year, and CGPA or percentage if it's strong.
06Skills
Tools and skills the job ad names, grouped by type. Skip progress bars and star ratings.
07Certifications and extras
Certifications, languages and awards that matter for the role. Leave out hobbies unless they're relevant.
Format rules
ATS resume format: 6 rules for job seekers in India
Whether you apply on job portals, LinkedIn or company career pages, these rules help your resume get read.
Use one column
Tables, text boxes and two-column layouts often scramble when an ATS reads them. Keep a single column with standard headings.
Mirror the job description
Use the exact skill names the posting uses, like "Power BI" or "B2B sales", wherever they truly describe your work.
Freshers: lead with projects
No experience yet? Put internships, college projects and hackathons up top, with the tools you used in each one.
One page, two at most
Freshers should fit on one page. With five or more years of experience, two pages is fine if every line earns its place.
Skip photos and graphics
Photos, logos and skill bars add nothing for an ATS and can break parsing. Save the space for results.
Send a text-based PDF
Export a PDF with real, selectable text. Scanned images and Canva graphics can't be read by most systems.
Writing bullets
Action verbs that make resume bullets stronger
Start every bullet with a verb that says what you did. Skip “responsible for” and “worked on”.
LedOwnedManagedMentoredCoordinatedDirectedBuiltDesignedLaunchedDevelopedShippedAutomatedGrewIncreasedExpanded
WonConvertedRetainedReducedStreamlinedFixedSimplifiedCutUpgradedAnalysedForecastMeasuredModelledAuditedTested
Leading
- Led
- Owned
- Managed
- Mentored
- Coordinated
- Directed
Building
- Built
- Designed
- Launched
- Developed
- Shipped
- Automated
Growing
- Grew
- Increased
- Expanded
- Won
- Converted
- Retained
Improving
- Reduced
- Streamlined
- Fixed
- Simplified
- Cut
- Upgraded
Analysing
- Analysed
- Forecast
- Measured
- Modelled
- Audited
- Tested
Keywords
Resume keywords recruiters search for, by role
The skills that come up again and again in Indian job ads for each role. Use the ones that are true for you.
PythonSQLExcelCommunicationTeamwork
JavaSpring BootPythonReactNode.js
Performance marketingGoogle AdsMeta AdsSEOGoogle Analytics 4
SQLPower BITableauExcelPython
Target achievementField salesInside salesB2B salesLead generation
Patient careICUTriageMedication administrationInfection control
Product roadmapA/B testingSQLUser researchStakeholder management
Tally PrimeGST returnsTDSAccounts payableAccounts receivable
Lesson planningClassroom managementCBSE curriculumICSE curriculumStudent assessment
Avoid these
Resume mistakes that get you rejected
Small things that cost interviews. PopCVs checks for every one of them.
A two-column Canva design
One column with standard headings
"Responsible for handling clients"
"Managed 25 client accounts in Pune"
The same resume for every job
Tailor skills and summary to each job ad
Photo, date of birth, marital status
Contact details and links only
Skill bars and star ratings
Plain skill names the job ad uses
A scanned or image-only PDF
A text-based PDF with selectable text
More in our ATS resume format rules
Compare
PopCVs vs a design-template resume
Pretty templates are made for people. PopCVs is made for the software that reads your resume first, and the people after it.
| Feature | Design template | PopCVs |
|---|---|---|
| Single-column layout an ATS can read | ||
| ATS score with ranked fixes | ||
| Match score against a job description | ||
| Rewrites toward the job, with your approval | ||
| Flags anything the AI made up | ||
| Cover letter from the same resume | ||
| Works inside ChatGPT and Claude | ||
| Pay once in rupees, no subscription |
Privacy
Your resume data, kept private
A resume holds your phone number, history and ambitions. We treat it that way.
Never used to train AI
We don't sell your data, share it for ads, or train AI models on it.
You own your resume
We store and process it only to run PopCVs for you.
No card details stored
Payments run through Razorpay. We never see your card or UPI details.
Delete any time
Delete any resume in one click, or ask us to remove your whole account.
Pricing
Simple pricing in rupees. No subscription.
You get 1 free ATS check every day, then 1 credit each. Every account gets 10 free credits; after that, buy a one-time pack with UPI, cards or netbanking. One tailored application uses 3 credits.
Starter
₹199one time
10 tailored applications · 30 credits
Get Starter- Tailored resume + cover letter for 10 jobs
- 1 free ATS check every day, then 1 credit each
- Unlimited editing and PDF downloads
- Works on the web and in your AI
Pro
Best value₹499one time
33 tailored applications · 100 credits
Get Pro- Tailored resume + cover letter for 33 jobs
- 1 free ATS check every day, then 1 credit each
- Unlimited editing and PDF downloads
- Works on the web and in your AI
Power
₹1,199one time
100 tailored applications · 300 credits
Get Power- Tailored resume + cover letter for 100 jobs
- 1 free ATS check every day, then 1 credit each
- Unlimited editing and PDF downloads
- Works on the web and in your AI
Pay with UPI, cards or netbanking. Credits don't expire while your account is active.Sign in with your account
Credits
What your credits buy, per application
A tailored application (a tailored resume plus a cover letter) uses 3 credits. You get 1 free ATS check every day, then 1 credit each. Here's what each pack works out to.
Credits per action
- Import a resume1
- ATS check (1 free a day)1
- Job match score2
- Tailor to a job2
- Cover letter1
- Editing and PDF downloadsFree
Starter · ₹199
10
tailored applications
20 each
Pro · ₹499
33
tailored applications
15 each
Power · ₹1,199
100
tailored applications
12 each
No subscription. No auto-renew.
Buy a pack when you need it. All credit purchases are final and non-refundable. Credits don't expire while your account is active.
FAQs
What is an ATS resume?
An ATS resume is written and formatted so applicant tracking systems can read it: one column, standard section headings, real text and the keywords the job asks for. Many employers in India use an ATS to filter applications before a recruiter reads them.
How do I check my resume's ATS score for free?
Sign up for PopCVs and you get 1 free ATS check every day, then 1 credit each. Each check gives you a score out of 100, a breakdown by category and a prioritized list of fixes.
What is a good ATS score?
Aim for 75 or above on the PopCVs ATS check, and a high keyword match for the specific job you're applying to. The fixes list tells you exactly what's holding the score back.
What is the best resume format for freshers in India?
A one-page, single-column resume with your contact details, a short summary, education, projects, internships and skills. Lead with projects and internships, and use the same skill names the job description uses.
Should an ATS-friendly resume be a PDF or a Word file?
Either works if it's built right. A text-based PDF keeps your layout identical everywhere, so PopCVs exports PDFs with real, selectable text. Avoid scanned PDFs and image-only exports from design tools, which most systems can't read.
Does Naukri use ATS?
Recruiters on job portals like Naukri search and filter candidates by keywords, and many employers also run their own applicant tracking system. Either way, a clean single-column resume with the right keywords is easier to find and read.
Is PopCVs a free resume maker?
Building, editing and downloading your resume as a PDF is free, always, and you get 1 free ATS check every day, then 1 credit each. Job match, tailoring and cover letters use credits, and every account starts with 10 free credits.
Which resume template is best for ATS?
A single-column template with standard section headings and real text. All four PopCVs templates follow those rules, so you can pick the one you like best without hurting your ATS score.
Can I tailor my resume to a job description?
Yes. Paste the job description and PopCVs shows your match score and missing keywords, then rewrites your summary, skills and bullets to match. You approve every change before it's saved.
Will the AI make things up on my resume?
No. It only rewords and reorders what is already in your resume. If a rewrite mentions a company, title, date or number you never gave us, we flag it before you accept the change.
Can I use PopCVs inside ChatGPT or Claude?
Yes. Add PopCVs as a connector using our MCP server URL and sign in once. Your assistant can then check, tailor and export your resumes using your PopCVs credits.
Do PopCVs credits expire?
No, credits don't expire while your account is active. There's no subscription or auto-renewal. All credit purchases are final and non-refundable.
How much does PopCVs cost?
You get 1 free ATS check every day, then 1 credit each, and every account starts with 10 free credits. A tailored application, meaning a tailored resume plus a cover letter, uses 3 credits. Packs start at ₹199 for 10 tailored applications, paid once with UPI, cards or netbanking. There's no subscription, and editing and PDF downloads are always free.
From the blog
Resume guides for job seekers in India
- Comparisons
- AI resume tools
PopCVs vs ChatGPT for Your Resume: What Each Does Well, and How to Use Both
Plain ChatGPT is free and good at rewording, but it doesn't check your resume's structure and keywords the way an ATS reads them, and it will happily add things you never did. Here is where PopCVs is better, where ChatGPT is enough, and how to run PopCVs inside your AI.
- Freshers
- Resume format
CV Format for Freshers: What Indian Recruiters Mean by "CV"
When an Indian recruiter asks a fresher for a CV, they almost always mean a one-page resume. Here is the format section by section, a sample layout, and how to fix an old-style CV template.
- ATS
- Resume format
Is an ATS-Friendly Resume a PDF or a Word File?
Both formats work in most applicant tracking systems. What matters is how the file was made. Here is when to send a PDF, when to send Word, and how to export either one properly.
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