USAJOBS Resume Checker: Two-Page Limit and Federal Format Check
USAJOBS has limited resumes to two pages since 27 September 2025, and it asks for the same details in every job: the employer, your title, start and end dates with month and year, and the hours you worked per week. A resume that misses one of them, or runs to a third page, can be screened out before a hiring manager reads it.
The tool above opens on the USAJOBS checks. It rebuilds the resume as a single-column US Letter PDF, counts the pages and names the sections past page two, flags each job without its hours or with years only, and flags a Social Security number or date of birth you should take out. It is a local check built from the USAJOBS help pages, not a connection to USAJOBS.
ATS Resume Fixer: Check and Fix How ATS Reads Your Resume
Applicant Tracking Systems read a resume (or CV) as one linear text stream, and they fail in predictable ways: columns interleave, ligatures and broken fonts turn into garbage, content in form fields or images is dropped, and headers get truncated. The ATS Resume Fixer rebuilds your resume or CV as a single-column, machine-readable document, entirely in your browser. Your file never leaves your device.
What it does
PDF or Word in: reads a PDF’s text layer or a Word .docx (text boxes, tables and headers included). A page with no text, such as a scan or a design exported as an image, is read by text recognition on your device.
Spatial linearization: an XY-cut engine finds column gutters and block gaps and flattens columns, sidebars and visual tables into one reading order.
Glyph & CMap repair: expands ligatures (fi, fl, ffi…), neutralises Private-Use-Area characters from broken CMaps, and folds exotic bullets, dashes and quotes to plain equivalents.
Artifact stripping: the output is rebuilt from text only, so images, skill bars, decorative vectors, form fields and annotations are gone by construction.
Semantic restructuring: content is sorted into canonical sections (Contact, Summary, Experience, Skills, Education, Certifications…), and the ATS view shows the work-history and education rows a parser would fill in.
Country rules: US Letter or A4 by country, the page count against the limit (two pages, enforced, for USAJOBS), federal hours and month-year dates, and flags for a photo, date of birth or ID number where employers do not expect one.
Job match: paste a posting to see your match rate and the skills, tools and certifications it asks for that your resume is missing, with acronym pairs such as SEO and search engine optimization.
Five outputs: a searchable text PDF, an unstyled DOCX, Markdown, and plain ASCII text for a portal’s paste box.
Headless ATS audit: a built-in mock parser scores machine readability and projects it onto five pipelines: Workday, Taleo, Greenhouse, Lever and iCIMS.
A note on PDF/A
The PDF is a clean, searchable text PDF with ISO core fonts and a classic cross-reference table, which covers everything an ATS relies on. It is deliberately not stamped as PDF/A-1b/2b: true conformance needs colour profiles, XMP metadata and a validating toolchain that a client-side tool cannot guarantee. You get a document that parses correctly, not a badge it cannot verify.
Frequently asked questions
What happens if my federal resume is longer than two pages?
USAJOBS has limited resumes to two pages since 27 September 2025, so a longer one can be ruled out before anyone reads it. The ATS Resume Fixer counts the pages of the rebuilt US Letter PDF and names the sections that run past page two, so you know what to cut first.
What does USAJOBS expect in each job entry?
For every job, USAJOBS asks for the employer, your job title, start and end dates with month and year, and the hours you worked per week. With USAJOBS chosen as the country, the tool flags any job that is missing its hours or gives only years, and lists those jobs by name.
Which paper size does the rebuilt federal resume use?
US Letter, 8.5 by 11 inches, which is also the size the two-page count is measured on. Choosing another country in the settings switches to A4 where that is the norm, and the page count is redone for that paper.
Is my resume uploaded anywhere to be checked?
No. The whole check runs in your browser and the file is never uploaded. Previewing and checking need no account; an account is needed only to spend tokens when you download the result.
Key facts about ATS Resume Fixer: where it runs, what it costs, what it accepts and produces, and its limits.
Where it runs
Entirely in your browser. Files are never uploaded.
Cost
90 tokens per resume (about $0.90 at the base rate); larger batches cost less per resume: 6–10 take 10% off the total, rising to 30% off at 41–50
Accepts
PDF or Word (DOCX); a PDF with no text layer, such as a scan or an image export, is read with OCR
Produces
A rebuilt, machine-readable PDF plus DOCX, plain ASCII text and Markdown versions, a conformance audit scored against five parser families, country checks and an optional job-posting keyword match.
Batch
Up to 25 files per run.
Account needed
Only to spend tokens. Browsing and previewing are free.
What it does not do
It fixes how a resume or CV is structured and parsed. It does not write it for you or judge your experience.
ATS Resume Fixer: before and after
An illustration with sample files; your own files show their own results.
