Check your resume against how Australia actually hires.
Upload your resume and Lumora reads it the way an Australian recruiter does: six seconds of skimming first, then a hard look at the evidence. You get an honest score, your weakest sections, and improved wording you can use straight away. Free, no card.
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What this checker does, in one paragraph.
Lumora is an Australian career intelligence platform, and this is its front door: a free check of the resume you already have. It diagnoses your existing resume: what a recruiter sees in the first six seconds, which claims have no evidence behind them, which sections are working against you. It gives you a readability score, a weakness-by-weakness diagnosis, and rewritten wording for your weakest lines. The free result is yours to copy and use. If you later want the resume tailored to one specific job ad, that is a one-time A$19, optional and clearly separate from the free check.
It checks against Australian conventions, because most resume advice online is American and some of it is actively wrong here. If you want the plain explanation of how the recruiter-style read works, the resume checker page walks through it; this page covers the Australian rules the check applies.
What the checker looks at
The six-second read
Recruiters skim before they read. The checker looks at what your first screen actually says: who you are, what you do, and why this application makes sense, or whether that is buried on page two.
Evidence behind claims
“Proven track record” convinces nobody. The checker flags claims with no example, number or outcome behind them, because unsupported claims are the most common weakness in Australian resumes.
Wording and clichés
Dynamic professional. Passionate team player. Results-driven. The checker finds filler phrasing and shows what a specific, recruiter-readable version of the same sentence looks like.
Structure and length
Two to three pages is normal in Australia; the American one-page rule does not apply here. What matters is order and findability: the checker looks at whether your strongest material appears where a skimming reader will actually see it.
Readability and parsing
Text boxes, multi-column layouts and graphics can scramble how software and screen readers extract your text. The checker reads your resume the way parsing software does and tells you if the layout is fighting you.
Australian conventions
Australian spelling (organised, specialised, licence), referee handling, right-to-work clarity, and the licences and tickets local employers scan for: a White Card on a construction resume, AHPRA registration on a nursing one.
One thing the checker never does: invent. It will not add a degree, a licence, a job or a number that isn't in your resume. Where you lack evidence for something, it says so and asks whether you have a real example. That rule is written into the product.
What an Australian resume looks like in 2026
Worth reading even if you never upload anything. These are the conventions Australian recruiters expect, and the ones American templates and generic AI advice most often get wrong.
No photo, no date of birth, no marital status
Standard Australian practice is to leave all three off. Anti-discrimination law means most recruiters prefer not to receive them, and a headshot can also break resume-parsing software. The space is better spent on evidence.
Two to three pages is normal
Australia is not the United States: nobody expects one page. Early career, one to two pages; experienced, two to three. Longer than that usually means duties are repeated under every job instead of summarised once.
“Resume” and “CV” mean the same thing here
In Australia the two words are used interchangeably for the same document, unlike the UK or the US. The exception is academia and medicine, where a full CV with publications is genuinely a different, longer document.
Australian spelling, always
Organised, specialised, analysed, licence (the noun), colour, centre. A resume full of American spelling reads as a template downloaded from somewhere else: a small signal, but recruiters notice small signals.
Referees: name them or hold them
“Referees available on request” is fine and saves space. Listing two referees with titles and phone numbers is also fine, and common in government, health and education. What hurts is listing referees who don't know they're on the page.
Make right to work impossible to doubt
If your name or history could make a recruiter wonder, one plain line (“Australian citizen”, “permanent resident”, or your visa type and work rights) removes the doubt. Recruiters do not chase ambiguity; they move to the next resume.
Licences and tickets are scanned for, not inferred
White Card, HR or HC licence, forklift ticket, AHPRA registration, Working With Children Check, police clearance, trade certificates: if a role needs it and you have it, it belongs in its own findable section, not implied by a job title.
Government roles play by different rules
APS and many state government applications assess selection criteria or a pitch as well as the resume. A strong resume still matters, but for those roles the written responses carry real weight. Factor that into your effort.
Sixty seconds from now you'll know where your resume stands.
Upload it, get the recruiter-style diagnosis against the Australian conventions above, and keep the improved wording whether you ever pay for anything or not.
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Questions people actually ask
Is the resume checker really free?
Yes. Upload your resume and the diagnosis (score, weaknesses, improved wording) is free, usable and copyable. No credit card, no trial that converts into a subscription. Lumora earns money when you later choose a one-time paid item, like tailoring your resume to a specific job ad for A$19. Most people use the free check and pay nothing.
Does it check resumes or CVs?
Both, because in Australia they are the same document; the words are used interchangeably. If you have an academic CV with publications, the checker will still read it, but its advice is built for job applications rather than academic appointments.
Should my resume have a photo?
In Australia, no. Photos are standard in parts of Europe and Asia, but Australian practice is to leave them off: anti-discrimination law makes recruiters wary of them, and headshots can break the software many employers use to parse resumes.
How long should an Australian resume be?
Two pages is the safe default; three is acceptable with fifteen-plus years of relevant history. One page is fine for a first resume. The checker looks at whether your length is earning its keep: repeated duties and filler are what make a resume feel long, not the page count itself.
What happens to my resume after I upload it?
It is used to produce your diagnosis, and it stays yours. Lumora never sells your personal information and never shares your resume with employers, recruiters or advertisers. The privacy policy says this in plain language, and the data-handling page goes deeper if you want the full picture.
Will a good score get me interviews?
No tool can promise that, and you should be suspicious of any that does. The score tells you how your resume reads (evidence, clarity, structure), which is the part of the process you control. Interviews also depend on the roles you choose, the competition and timing. The checker's job is to make sure your resume is never the reason you miss.
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Content last reviewed 10 August 2026.