What file types can I upload?

PDF, Word, Markdown, plain text, or an image. PDFs up to 5 MB and Word files up to 2 MB.

How long does processing take?

Six runs on the same two-page résumé took between 00:31 and 01:25 — about a minute. A clock on screen shows where it is.

Do I need to pay to try it?

No. New accounts get a Pro trial lasting 14 days, and there is a free plan afterwards.

What is the difference between the two buttons at the end?

Go to your Professional Identity opens the profile built from your résumé. Continue setup returns you to the wizard to confirm your contact details, work eligibility and preferences. You can do both, in either order.

Can I upload a different résumé later?

Yes. You can import another file at any time.

Do I have to stay on the page while it processes?

No. Processing continues in the background.

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How to upload your résumé and what happens next

Upload one file. The setup screens after it arrive with your details already in them.

Yassir Oulmokhtar — Founder, ATSReady

Published August 12, 2026

Read: 4 min
Hands-on: 20 min
Steps: 7

Reading time is an estimate. Hands-on time is the sum of the steps below.

This walks through uploading a résumé to ATSReady: every screen you see, how long the processing takes, and where you land afterwards.

The résumé step comes first so the screens after it can be filled in for you. The wizard says as much: “Upload your resume first so we can prefill the steps that follow.”

What you need

A résumé file. PDF, Word, Markdown, plain text, or an image all work.
A Google account, which is the only sign-in option.
Around twenty minutes.

What it costs

New accounts get a Pro trial lasting 14 days, and the app shows how much is left in the top bar. A free plan takes over when the trial ends.

Start at the home page

The Get Started Free button goes to the sign-in screen. There is no signup form in between.

The ATSReady home page, with the Get Started Free button in the hero section. — The way in.

Sign in with Google

Choose your Google account and approve the permissions it asks for. You land back on ATSReady signed in. There is no password to create and no confirmation email.

The ATSReady sign-in screen, showing a single Continue with Google button. — The entire sign-in screen.

Your language carries over

If you were reading the site in Polish, Spanish or Arabic, the app opens in that language. The choice survives the trip to Google and back.

The four setup screens

After signing in you get a welcome screen. Get Started opens the wizard, and a sidebar lists what is coming: Resume Upload, Contact & Links, Work Eligibility, Work Preferences.

The ATSReady welcome screen after sign-in, offering to begin setup. — Where a new account starts.

Upload the résumé

Choose your file, then press Import. Choosing the file only stages it; the Import button is what starts the processing, and it is easy to walk away without pressing it.

The Resume Upload step, with the four setup steps listed in a sidebar alongside it. — The first of four steps, and the only one that needs a file.

Size limits

A PDF can be up to 5 MB and a Word file 2 MB. Anything larger usually has a photo embedded in it; exporting again at lower image quality brings it well under.

While it processes

Watch it work, or do not

The screen names each thing it is doing: extracting text, validating the résumé, detecting your professional domain, finding sections, then counting up what it found. A clock runs beside the heading. Processing continues if you leave the page.

The résumé import in progress, showing a running timer and named processing stages. — Each stage named as it happens.

Our runs took about a minute for the same two-page résumé, with the app's clock reading anywhere from 00:31 to 01:25. A longer CV will take longer. The product's own copy says a few minutes, which is the cautious version.

The upload control disappears while it runs

It is removed rather than disabled, and replaced by the progress report. If you return to this screen looking for the button, that is why it is not there.

When it finishes

Read what it found

The completion screen lists what came out of the file — positions, degrees, skills, languages — with the elapsed time. Check these counts. If the number of positions is wrong, you know straight away.

The completion screen reading Your Professional Identity is ready, with the elapsed time, the processing stages and counts of extracted positions, degrees, skills and languages. — What was found, and how long it took.

That screen gives you two buttons, and they go to different places.

“Go to your Professional Identity”

This opens the profile built from your résumé: an elevator pitch written from your experience, a career timeline, years of experience, companies, and your skills sorted into primary and secondary groups. Tabs across the top switch between Overview, Skills and Resume. This is the thing the upload was for.

The Professional Identity screen showing an elevator pitch, career timeline, years of experience, companies, and skills grouped into categories. — The profile built from the file.

“Continue setup”

This returns you to the wizard at Contact & Links, with details already filled in from your account and your résumé. Work Eligibility and Work Preferences follow. Read them rather than type them, and check the dates and job titles.

The Contact and Links setup step with fields already filled in. — Prefilled, so setup becomes a review.

You can take either button first and reach the other afterwards. Identity lives under Identity in the sidebar; the wizard is at Get started until you finish it.

Your résumé is now stored as structured content rather than a document: separate roles, dates, skills and achievements you can edit one at a time and reuse. You do not need to upload the file again.

Frequently asked questions

What file types can I upload?: PDF, Word, Markdown, plain text, or an image. PDFs up to 5 MB and Word files up to 2 MB.
How long does processing take?: Six runs on the same two-page résumé took between 00:31 and 01:25 — about a minute. A clock on screen shows where it is.
Do I need to pay to try it?: No. New accounts get a Pro trial lasting 14 days, and there is a free plan afterwards.
What is the difference between the two buttons at the end?: Go to your Professional Identity opens the profile built from your résumé. Continue setup returns you to the wizard to confirm your contact details, work eligibility and preferences. You can do both, in either order.
Can I upload a different résumé later?: Yes. You can import another file at any time.
Do I have to stay on the page while it processes?: No. Processing continues in the background.