# Lever resume checker

> Lever takes files up to 10 MB. Check the file you’ll send before you hit apply.

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| What you bring | The resume file you plan to send through Lever |
| Price | Free |
| Rendered page | https://atsprep.com/tools/ats-resume-checker/lever |
| This document | https://atsprep.com/tools/ats-resume-checker/lever.md |

Free Lever resume check: the file types it takes and what a parser could misread in your layout. Runs in your browser.

## How to check a resume for Lever. Four steps, about a minute.

Updated 13 November 2026.

1. **Drop the file you plan to send.** PDF or Word, the exact file. It’s read on your device and never uploaded.
2. **Check it against Lever’s rules.** The file type is checked against the list Lever publishes, and the size against its published limit.
3. **Fix what a parser could misread.** Columns, tables, text that is a picture, a missing email or a job with no dates. Each one is listed with the fix.
4. **Fix it and send a clean file.** Open it in the Studio to fix what was flagged, then download a one-column PDF of real text.

## What Lever takes. From its own documentation.

Lever file rules, with sources:

|  | Lever | Source |
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| File types | PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF and TXT | [Lever Help Center, adding and deleting resumes](https://help.lever.co/s/article/Adding-and-deleting-resumes) |
| Upload limit | 10 MB | [Lever Help Center, adding and deleting resumes](https://help.lever.co/s/article/Adding-and-deleting-resumes) |
| Fills the form from your resume | Yes, the fields it recognises | [Lever Help Center, understanding resume parsing](https://help.lever.co/s/article/Understanding-Resume-Parsing) |

When a resume is parsed, Lever extracts the readable information and fills the matching fields on the candidate profile, including name, organisation and contact details. If parsing does not work, Lever's documented fallback is to type the information into the profile by hand. A failed parse leaves a thinner record. It is not a rejection.

## What Lever does differently. Each one sourced.

- **The resume limit is 10 MB:** Lever's help centre states that the maximum resume file size that can be uploaded is 10 MB. A text-based resume is a small fraction of that. A file near the limit almost always means embedded images, and images are the one thing Lever says it cannot read. [Lever Help Center, adding and deleting resumes](https://help.lever.co/s/article/Adding-and-deleting-resumes)
- **Images are never parsed:** Lever says it cannot parse information from image files such as JPG or PNG. Its own test is simple: if you cannot highlight the text in the document with your cursor, the document is probably not parseable. A scanned PDF fails that test. [Lever Help Center, understanding resume parsing](https://help.lever.co/s/article/Understanding-Resume-Parsing)
- **The parse list is not the upload list:** The uploader names .doc, .docx, .pdf and .txt as examples of what it takes. The list of formats Lever can parse is Word, PDF, Rich Text (RTF), WordPerfect, HTML, MS Office HTML and OpenDocument. Plain text is not on it, so PDF or DOCX is the safer choice. [Lever Help Center, understanding resume parsing](https://help.lever.co/s/article/Understanding-Resume-Parsing)
- **Employer-hosted forms do not pre-fill:** Lever lists six ways an employer can run its careers site. In five of them the application is hosted by Lever and resumes are auto-parsed to pre-populate the form. In the sixth, where the employer builds its own application form on Lever's API, Lever states that auto-parsing to pre-populate applications is not supported. [Lever Help Center, Lever career site options](https://help.lever.co/s/article/Lever-Career-Site-Options)

Everything we know about Lever, with sources: [the Lever guide](https://atsprep.com/ats/lever).

## What this check can’t tell you. So you don’t trust it for the wrong thing.

This isn’t Lever’s own view of your resume. We have no access to Lever, and each employer sets it up their own way. What we check is what Lever 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](https://atsprep.com/tools/ats-resume-checker) with the job post.

## Applying through a different system? Same check, its rules.

- **Workday resume checker:** [Workday’s own careers site takes files up to 5 MB. Each employer sets its own limit.](https://atsprep.com/tools/ats-resume-checker/workday)
- **Greenhouse resume checker:** [Greenhouse takes files up to 100 MB but reads nothing from one over 2.5 MB.](https://atsprep.com/tools/ats-resume-checker/greenhouse)
- **Taleo resume checker:** [Oracle Taleo ships with a 1 MB file limit. Raising it, to 5 MB at most, takes a support request to Oracle.](https://atsprep.com/tools/ats-resume-checker/taleo)
- **iCIMS resume checker:** [iCIMS publishes no size limit.](https://atsprep.com/tools/ats-resume-checker/icims)

## Questions about checking a resume for Lever

### What file types does Lever accept for a resume?

PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF and TXT, per Lever Help Center, adding and deleting resumes. PDF or DOCX is the safe pick: both keep real text, and every system in our ATS guides takes them.

### What is the Lever resume file size limit?

Lever takes files up to 10 MB.

### Will this tell me my Lever score?

No. We have no access to Lever, and Lever doesn’t publish how it ranks resumes. This check covers what Lever does publish, its file rules, and how a parser reads your layout.

### Is my resume uploaded?

No. The file is read in your browser and never leaves your device. If you open it in the Studio, its text goes to our AI for suggestions. We never sell it or train AI on it.

### Is it free?

Yes. The check is free with no sign-up.

Open the full resume Studio: https://atsprep.com/studio

## About ATSPrep

ATSPrep (https://atsprep.com) is a free resume and application workspace. Match experience to a posting, strengthen claims with evidence, and track the next action. Its PDF check shows text recovered by ATSPrep's extractor, not an employer's proprietary ATS or hiring decision.

- **Price:** Free plan forever: your ATS score, every fix, job match, 3 AI rewrites and PDF downloads, with no card or watermark. Optional ATSPrep Pro ($9 once for 7 days, $12/month, or $29 once for 3 months) adds 300 AI edits a day, Fix all with AI, AI tailoring, Word downloads, all 13 templates and unlimited practice with Pip.
- **Account:** none needed to import or edit a resume, or for its first check and 3 rechecks a day. A free sign-in is needed for PDF downloads (Word files come with ATSPrep Pro), to sync, and for more than 1 AI edit.
- **Your file:** parsed and exported inside the browser. The resume file itself is never uploaded.
- **Sent:** matching a job by meaning, on by default once you add a job (the lines involved). Only on a button press: AI edits (the lines involved), a job link (the link) and Pip voice calls (your speech). Never your contact details, and none of it is stored.
- **Connection:** some tools load on first use and need a connection to download. Local storage is not a cloud backup.
- **Accepts:** PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, or pasted plain text.

Start here: https://atsprep.com/studio