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The five-minute version: what Careerkit does, who it's for, and how it compares to building a resume in a Google Doc.
Careerkit is a full career toolkit for modern job seekers, not just a resume builder. You get an editor that writes and rewrites bullets for you, an ATS scanner that flags gaps before you apply, a cover-letter generator that reads the job description, and a headshot studio that replaces the photographer. Everything shares one profile, so updating your title once updates it everywhere.
You fill out a guided form, or import your old resume as a PDF, and Careerkit builds a structured profile from it. From there, every tool pulls the same structured data. When you paste a job description, the editor rewrites your bullets to match the keywords that job is ranking on, and the ATS scanner tells you whether you cleared the threshold.
Anyone writing a resume in 2026, but we optimize for three audiences in particular: career switchers reframing old experience, early-career candidates with thin work history who need to lean on projects, and returning professionals closing a gap of 6 months or more. If you're a senior executive with a bespoke CV writer, you probably don't need us.
If you can use Gmail, you can use Careerkit. The editor is a form, not a design tool. There are no margins to fiddle with, no font sizes to pick, no columns to break. Templates are pre-laid-out by designers; the AI writes the first pass; you edit in plain text.
What's free, what's paid, and what happens if you change your mind after five minutes.
Yes. The free plan gives you the full resume editor, three templates, and one export per month. You don't need a credit card to start. You only hit the upgrade path when you want unlimited exports, the AI tailoring feature, or the headshot studio.
Pro is $12 / month billed monthly, or $96 / year ($8 effective) billed annually. The annual plan is the same price as most people pay for one month of a coffee habit they're already trying to quit. Team plans start at five seats.
Yes, from Settings, then Billing. There's no retention flow, no three-step hoops, no 'are you sure' modals. You keep access through the end of the current period and your resume data stays in your account even if you never come back.
If you cancel within 14 days of your first charge and you've exported fewer than three resumes, we refund in full, no questions. After that we prorate. Annual plans are fully refundable inside the first 30 days.
Yes to both. Students with a valid .edu address get 50% off Pro for 12 months. If you're actively between jobs, write us and we'll extend a one-month Pro trial. We'd rather help you get hired than collect $12.
Templates, sections, layouts. The editor basics and the parts people email us about most.
Upload a PDF or DOCX and we parse it into a structured profile: experience entries, dates, education, skills. Usually within 6 seconds. You'll get a chance to review the parse before anything is saved, and you can edit the raw fields at any time.
We ship 12 templates, 3 free and 9 Pro, designed in-house and named after cities. You can switch between any of them with one click; your content stays, the layout updates. The most popular three are Berlin (minimal), Zurich (two-column), and Milan (editorial).
Up to three resumes on the free plan, unlimited on Pro. They all share the same underlying profile, so when you add a new job to your master profile, you can propagate that change to every resume with a single checkbox, or keep them independent if you'd rather.
Every generated bullet has a regenerate, a rephrase, and an undo. Nothing is auto-saved over your own writing without your confirmation. If you turn AI off entirely (Settings, Editor, AI assist), the whole app works as a plain form-based resume builder.
How the scoring works, what it actually measures, and why your resume sometimes scores 94% instead of 100%.
We simulate the four parsers used by most enterprise ATS products (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and iCIMS) and score your resume on three axes: parseability (can a machine read it), keyword coverage (does it match the role), and structure (are sections in the expected order). The final score is the weakest of the three, not the average.
You usually can, but we cap at 98% unless the keyword match is exact, and exact matches on every term tend to make a resume sound robotic. 90%+ is the threshold where our data shows recruiters respond; we don't recommend chasing the last two points at the cost of readability.
In our sample of 180,000 applications in 2025, users who tailored per role had a 73% higher interview rate than users who sent the same resume everywhere. The effect is strongest in tech, finance, and policy; weakest in food service and retail.
Yes. Tailoring rewrites bullet language, reorders skills to surface the most relevant ones first, and adjusts your summary, but it never changes the template, layout, or dates. A recruiter reading two tailored versions side by side should see the same resume wearing different clothes.
Where your data lives, who can see it, and what we don't do with it.
No. Your resume content is never used to train the models that power Careerkit or any third-party model. The AI features run through providers we've signed zero-retention agreements with; requests are processed and then discarded.
On encrypted servers in Frankfurt, Germany for EU accounts and Virginia, USA for everyone else. Encryption at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). We're SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR-compliant.
One button, one confirmation, done. Settings, Account, Delete permanently. We purge resumes, profile data, and headshots from all systems within 30 days; audit logs (legally required) are retained for 12 months and then destroyed.
Logging in, exporting out, and moving on.
PDF (the default, looks the same on every machine), DOCX (editable in Word), and plain-text TXT (for copy-pasting into the job portals that still require it). Every export is ATS-tested before download. If parseability drops below 90% we warn you.
Both, plus Apple and a magic link to your email. If you sign in with LinkedIn we can pre-fill your profile from your LinkedIn work history, with your permission, one-time, not synced continuously.
First: congrats. Second: keep the account. Your profile is the most up-to-date record of your career you'll ever have, and the next time you're job hunting, in two or six or ten years, you'll thank yourself. We won't charge you if you haven't exported in 60 days.
Four humans, no chatbot triage, average reply of 47 minutes. Send us a question, even a weird one, and we'll probably also review your resume while we're in there.
