# Resume buzzword checker

> Find the words every resume uses, and what to say instead.

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| What you bring | Your resume or a list of bullet points |
| Price | Free |
| Rendered page | https://atsprep.com/tools/resume-buzzword-checker |
| This document | https://atsprep.com/tools/resume-buzzword-checker.md |

Find the buzzwords, clichés and filler in your resume. Paste it to see every one marked, with what to write instead. Free, no sign-up, in your browser.

## Cut the filler keep the proof.

- **Every one on the page:** Clichés, buzzwords, vague words and padding, marked where they sit.
- **What to say instead:** Each word comes with the fact it's standing in for.
- **The Review's own list:** The same words the Studio skips when it scores a line.

## Questions

### What are resume buzzwords?

Words that sound like a strength but name nothing: team player, results-driven, detail-oriented, proven track record. Every applicant uses them, so they tell a recruiter nothing about you.

### Which words does it look for?

47 clichés, buzzwords and vague words by name, such as “passionate about”, “robust” and “various”. It also catches padding like “in order to” and stock endings like “to ensure success”. It's the same list the Studio's Review uses.

### What should I write instead of a buzzword?

The thing it stands for. In place of “detail-oriented”, name the error you caught. In place of “team player”, name the team and your part in it. Every word the checker finds comes with what to show in its place.

### Do buzzwords hurt with an ATS?

An ATS doesn't mark you down for them. They take up the room of words a recruiter does search for: skills, tools and job titles. Cut them and that room comes back.

### Is what I paste uploaded or saved?

No. The checker runs in your browser. Nothing you paste is sent to ATSPrep or anyone else, and it's gone when you leave the page.

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