About Six Seconds Resume
A free resume builder that runs in your browser, shows you what software reads from your file, and refuses the three things resume tools usually sell: paid downloads, promised outcomes, and an AI writing your experience for you.
What it is
You build a one-column resume of real text and download it as PDF, Word or plain text, free, with no account and no watermark. Beside the preview, four views show you the document the way others will meet it: what a parser extracts from the exact file (X-Ray), where your name and current role land on page one (Six seconds), how your page answers a job posting you paste (Match), and every figure you may be asked to explain (Interview).
Without an account, your resume never leaves your browser. An account is optional and exists so your resumes follow you between devices; the privacy page lists everything that is stored and counted.
Why it exists
A resume is evidence about a person, and most tools treat it as something to generate and score. They charge for the file you wrote, quote pass rates nobody outside an employer can know, and offer to write the bullets — which leaves you defending numbers you never had. This one shows you how your own words read, to a parser and to a person, and leaves the writing to you.
Who makes it
Six Seconds Resume is built and maintained independently, by one developer, and carries no advertising. The code is public on GitHub, and every change that reaches the site is recorded, with its date, on what changed.
The rules every page follows
No promised outcomes
No page here promises interviews, offers or a pass rate. Nobody outside an employer's own system can know those, and a test fails the build if any page claims one.
Nothing written for you
There is no AI writer. The coach asks questions and never supplies a sentence or a number, because a figure invented on your behalf is one you cannot defend in an interview.
Examples are invented, and held to the same bar as yours
Every name, employer and number on an example resume is made up. Each one passes the same checks the builder runs on your resume, and every bullet answers the coach's questions.
Dates mean what they say
A page's “Updated” date changes only when the page does. The build fingerprints each guide and example, and fails if the content changes without its date.
Measurements can be re-run
When a guide reports a measurement, the code that made it is public, the numbers are re-measured on every build, and the guide says what the measurement does not show.
Official rules are sourced
Where a guide relies on a rule someone else sets — the two-page limit on US federal resumes, for instance — it names who set it and when.
Conventions are labelled by market
India and the US expect different things on a resume. Guides and examples written for one market say so, so a reader in the other knows what to translate.
Corrections and questions
If a guide is wrong, or the builder misreads your resume, open an issue on GitHub and say which sentence or which file. Corrections change the page’s date and are listed on the changelog, so a fix is visible rather than silent.