Written for your field

41 professions decide the section order and what has to carry a number.

Rated, not just built

Six grades, each quoting the line it is about — not one vague score.

Nothing is uploaded

It runs in your browser. There is no endpoint here that receives a CV.

Three steps

  1. Pick your profession

    That sets the layout, the section order and what the rating expects.

  2. Write it, or bring the one you have

    Import a PDF, a Word file or a LinkedIn export and it fills itself in.

  3. Read the rating, then download

    Fix what it quotes back at you, and take the PDF.

Eight formats, one set of facts

Rendered live by the same code the builder uses. Four of them here.

See all eight in the builder →

Common questions

Is ihatejob really free?

Yes. There is no account, no email address, no payment method and no paid tier. Every format and every export is available to everyone, and nothing is held back behind a sign-up.

Does this CV builder upload my CV anywhere?

No. Reading, rating and exporting all happen in your own browser, and the site has no endpoint that receives a CV. Your data stays in that browser’s local storage until you clear it.

Can I use a CV builder without making an account?

Yes. ihatejob asks for nothing before you start. You open the builder and type. Signing in is only ever asked for at the point of contributing a review or a journey, never to use the tool.

Can I convert my existing CV into a different format for free?

Yes. Import a PDF, a Word .docx, plain text or a LinkedIn export, and one press lays it out in any of 8 formats, runs a safe clean-up of filler phrasing, and gives you a PDF. Everything it changed is listed, and nothing is invented.

How can I check whether my CV is ATS-friendly for free?

Import your existing CV here. Whatever comes back empty is roughly what an applicant tracking system would store as empty, because it is the same job done by the same kind of code. Every CV this site builds is a single column of real text with standard headings, which is what parses cleanly.

Does a CV builder work offline?

This one does. It installs as an app and runs with no network at all, because there is nothing it needs to ask a server for.

Is a CV the same thing as a resume?

For most job applications, yes - the same document under two names. Resume is the usual word in North America, CV almost everywhere else. The exception is the academic CV, which is long-form and lists publications, and has its own format here.

What does the rating out of 100 actually measure?

Six separate scores rather than one: Evidence, Authenticity, Precision, Field fit, Machine-readability and Restraint. A CV can be immaculate and say nothing, or full of hard evidence and unreadable by a parser - those are different failures, so they are reported separately. Each finding names the line it is about.

Find out what your CV actually scores

Two minutes. No sign-up.

Used it? Tell us how it went — good or bad.

Mercury if it was no help at all, the Sun if you walked away with something you would actually send.

Pick a planet to set your rating — ten of them, Mercury out to the Sun.

Something broken, or a CV it could not read?

It reaches us directly, with no account. Nothing about your CV is attached — send only what you are willing to put in the box. If you would rather