iCIMS resume checker

When you upload a resume, iCIMS may fill some profile fields with information from it. Its candidate guide says to upload the resume before completing other fields to get the most from this resume parsing, and to review the parsed information before filling in the required fields. iCIMS says the system may populate some fields, not all of them. Whatever the parse misses has to be typed in.

• Upload the resume firstiCIMS's candidate guide says that to take full advantage of resume parsing, you should upload your resume before completing other fields. Typing your details first and uploading at the end means doing work the parser would have done for you. iCIMS Community, candidate guide to iCIMS career portals
• No size limit is publishedNeither the candidate guide nor the developer documentation gives a maximum resume file size. iCIMS does not publish one, so we do not quote a number. A text-based resume of a page or two is a small file and is unlikely to be the problem. iCIMS Community, candidate guide to iCIMS career portals
• The text extraction list is longiCIMS's developer documentation lists the files available for text extraction by default: PDF, Word, RTF, plain text, HTML, OpenDocument, WordPerfect and Write files, along with spreadsheets, slides, archives and several image types. It adds that client configurations may vary, so an employer can narrow the list. iCIMS developer documentation, binary files and text extraction
• Text extraction can time outThe same documentation says iCIMS gives up on a text extraction call after 1 minute and 30 seconds and makes two attempts. A plain, text-based file keeps that step simple. iCIMS developer documentation, binary files and text extraction

Everything we know about iCIMS, with sources: the iCIMS guide.

This isn’t iCIMS’s own view of your resume. We have no access to iCIMS, and each employer sets it up their own way. What we check is what iCIMS publishes about files, plus how a typical parser reads your layout.

To see which keywords a posting wants and which ones you’re missing, run the ATS resume checker with the job post.

• Workday resume checkerWorkday’s own careers site takes files up to 5 MB. Each employer sets its own limit.
• Greenhouse resume checkerGreenhouse takes files up to 100 MB but reads nothing from one over 2.5 MB.
• Taleo resume checkerOracle Taleo ships with a 1 MB file limit. Raising it, to 5 MB at most, takes a support request to Oracle.
• Lever resume checkerLever takes files up to 10 MB.