No resume yet? Build one free.
Answer a few questions, paste your LinkedIn, or upload a rough draft — Scout writes a clean, ATS-safe resume from exactly what you tell it.
Start from whatever you have
Answer a few questions
Type your roles, projects, education and skills in plain sentences — Scout turns them into a professional resume. Built for freshers too: projects lead when experience is thin.
Paste your LinkedIn
Copy your profile's About and Experience text, paste it in, done. Most people have a LinkedIn long before they have a resume file.
Rebuild a rough draft
Upload any old or messy PDF — Scout restructures it into the clean, single-column format applicant tracking systems actually parse.
It writes your resume, not a fictional one
Every line is composed only from what you provide, and a verification pass flags anything it can't trace back to your input — the same fact-checking discipline behind Scout's paid tailoring. Then the same resume plugs straight into your job search: see which live jobs it matches, free, and tailor it per job when you're ready (pricing). See the full how-it-works walkthrough.
Frequently asked
Yes — building, editing, and the PDF download all cost nothing, no card needed. Scout's paid products are different things: per-job resume tailoring and auto-apply (see pricing). The builder is free because a good base resume makes everything else work better.
No — by design. The builder composes only from what you provide, and a verification pass flags anything it can't trace back to your input so you can remove it before saving. The same fact-checking discipline runs on our paid tailoring.
The builder is built for that: it leads with your projects, internships, and education instead of padding an empty experience section. Course projects are presented as projects — honestly.
A clean, single-column, ATS-safe PDF — the format applicant tracking systems parse reliably. No graphic templates on purpose: decorated resumes routinely fail ATS parsing. You can also edit the text version any time.