Resume tense checker
Past tense for jobs you've left, present for the one you're in. Every opening verb checked, with the right form.
Past for jobs you've left, present for the one you're in.
Read from the dates
A job dated to Present is your current one. A job with an end date reads in past tense.
The right form
Each wrong opener comes back fixed, irregular verbs included: lead becomes led, run becomes ran.
Honest when it can't tell
With no dates, it only checks that your lines agree, and tells you that's all it did.
Questions about verb tense
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Should my resume be in past or present tense?
Past tense for every job you've left: “Led”, “Built”, “Ran”. Present tense for the job you're in now, for what you still do: “Lead”, “Build”, “Run”. Your summary can be in present tense.
Can I mix tenses in my current job?
Yes. In the job you're in, present tense fits what you still do and past tense fits what you finished, like a project that ended. What reads wrong is a present-tense verb in a job you've left.
How does it know which job is current?
Only from the dates. A job dated “to Present” or “to Current” is your current one; a job with an end date has ended. If you paste bullets with no dates, it can't know, so it checks that your lines agree with each other and says so.
Is it wrong to start a bullet with an -ing verb?
It reads like a job ad: “Managing the rota”. Open on the verb itself instead: “Managed the rota” for a job you've left, “Manage the rota” for the one you're in. The checker gives the right form for each.
What about irregular verbs like lead and run?
The checker knows them: lead becomes led, run becomes ran, write becomes wrote, grow becomes grew. Verbs spelled the same in both tenses, like cut, set and read, are left alone.
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.
Check the whole resume in the Studio.
The Studio flags a job you've left that mixes tenses as you write, then saves a clean PDF.
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