Resume Length Checker
See how long your CV really is — and which sections are crowding out your evidence.
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded or stored.
Under ten years, one page is the usual target. At ten or more, two pages is normal — and cutting real evidence to force one page costs you more than the extra page does.
Paste your CV to see its length, how it splits across sections, and what's worth cutting.
What a length report looks like
A six-year backend engineer's CV, checked against a one-page target. The length is fine — the problem is where the words are going.
Words
486
Estimated pages
2
Target pages
1
Where the words go
- Experience — 268 words, 55%. The bulk of the page, which is where it belongs.
- Summary — 78 words, 16%. Over the 15% mark, and it mostly restates the job titles below it.
- Skills — 62 words, 13%. Long, but still under the 20% line.
- Interests — 14 words, 3%. Small, but it's the first thing to cut.
Your summary is over 15% of the CV — trim it so your experience leads.
"Interests" is space better spent on evidence — cut it first.
Why this tool only ever suggests cuts
A length checker that told you to pad your CV would be asking you to invent — and that's the one thing this product will never do. So when your CV comes back shorter than expected, this tool doesn't hand you filler. It tells you what that usually means: real experience you have is missing from the page.
The fix for a thin CV is tosurface what you actually did — the project you forgot to mention, the outcome you never wrote down, the decision you owned. It is never to stretch what's there into something larger than the truth.
What the numbers do and don't know
Word count
Exact. It's counting the text you pasted, nothing more.
Page estimate
An estimate, at roughly 450 words per page. Your real PDF depends on the template, margins, and font — we can't see any of those.
Section split
Based on headings it recognises. An unusual heading gets folded into the section above it rather than guessed at.
When to use it
- Before you export — a quick check that your CV isn't spilling onto a second page for no good reason.
- When you're over length and can't see what to drop — the section split usually makes the answer obvious.
- After years of edits — summaries and skills lists grow quietly until they crowd out the evidence.
- When your CV feels thin — as a prompt to find real experience you left off, not to pad what's there.
Ready to do this for real?
This free tool gives you a useful first pass. SiviGen does the whole job — with AI that only ever uses facts your CV already supports.
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Frequently asked questions
For most people with under ten years of experience, one page. Past ten years — or in academia and some senior technical roles — two pages is normal and expected. The honest answer is that length is a consequence, not a target: a CV is the right length when every line on it earns its place for the job you're applying to. If you're cutting real, relevant evidence purely to hit an arbitrary page count, you're optimising the wrong thing.