Free pharma CV checker: your score out of 100 and what to fix first
For nine years at Bayer, and five before that at ICON and Syneos Health, I read CVs for a living. This checker holds yours against the structure I use for my own CV and for my clients, the one behind my free pharma CV templates. The page measures what a rule can measure. My AI persona reads the rest the way a Recruiter reads it and tells you which three changes will make the biggest difference.
Built by Andreas Schulz, MoreThanCareer.de: 17 years in recruitment, 14 of them in pharma and CRO environments. The report is written by an AI, my persona, which the EU AI Act requires me to tell you. Treat it as a second opinion from someone who has done the screening.
What the checker looks at
Ten criteria, 100 points. The page scores the first three itself, in your browser. My persona scores the other seven.
| Criterion | Points | What gets full marks |
|---|---|---|
| Contact block | 10 | City, e-mail, phone and the full LinkedIn address. No street address, no date of birth, no marital status. |
| Dates | 10 | Month and year on every role. Recruiters scan the right margin for dates and gaps. |
| Length and layout | 10 | Two to three pages for experienced people, one column, no tables or text boxes, no photo, contact details in the body and not in the header. |
| Target role line | 5 | The role you're applying for as its own line above your name, changed for every application. |
| Profile | 10 | Five or six sentences: years of experience, the employers that matter, range of roles, one result with a number, languages with their level. |
| Career highlights | 15 | About five results with numbers before the experience section, so the strongest evidence is on page one. |
| Bullet points | 20 | Verb first, result before responsibility, numbers for studies, sites, batches, teams or budgets, regulations and systems by name. |
| Older roles | 5 | Roles older than about fifteen years in one paragraph: title, employer, dates. |
| Keywords and competencies | 10 | A keyword line at the end with systems, therapeutic areas, GxP areas and methods, in the words job ads use. With a job ad: how many of its terms your CV uses. |
| Employer context | 5 | One line on what the company does wherever the name isn't widely known. |
Scores from 85 up are close to the benchmark. From 70 the CV is solid with clear gaps, from 50 it needs work before you send it, and below 50 it's worth rebuilding on a template.
Where the benchmark comes from
Every criterion answers a question the first reader of a CV asks, usually before page two. They come from the hiring side: the habits of the CVs that moved forward when I screened for Bayer and the CROs, and the rules I write my clients' CVs by today. You can see them applied in my own CV and the 20 role templates, from Clinical Research Associate to QC Analyst, in English and German.
The checker reads text, so it can't judge what it can't see. A brilliant career told badly scores lower than an average career told well, and that's the point: the first screen works the same way.
What happens to your CV text
- Your browser reads the Word file and measures contact block, dates and layout. That part stays on your device.
- Before anything is sent, the page replaces e-mail addresses, phone numbers, the LinkedIn address and street addresses with placeholders. Delete your name as well if you like; the check works without it.
- The remaining text goes to Anthropic PBC, the provider of the AI model, for this one check. As a rule, Anthropic deletes API inputs and outputs within 30 days, unless they're flagged for a breach of its usage policy, and doesn't use them to train models. MoreThanCareer.de doesn't store your CV or the report.
- Leave out health details and anything else you wouldn't want a stranger to read. Details are in the privacy policy, section 6.
Link to the checker
Careers services, alumni networks and job boards are welcome to link to this page. Copy the snippet below. It contains no script.
<a href="https://morethancareer.de/pharma-cv-checker.html">Free pharma CV checker by MoreThanCareer.de</a>Frequently asked questions
Is the pharma CV checker free?
Yes. There's no account and no payment. You can run up to five full checks a day. The part the page measures itself works without limits, because it runs in your browser.
What is my CV compared against?
Against the structure I use for my own CV and for my clients' CVs, published as free pharma CV templates for 20 roles. Ten criteria, 100 points: contact block, dates, length and layout, target role line, profile, career highlights, bullet points, older roles, keywords and employer context.
Is my CV stored?
Not by MoreThanCareer.de. Your browser replaces e-mail addresses, phone numbers, the LinkedIn address and street addresses before the text is sent. The rest goes to Anthropic, the provider of the AI model, which deletes API inputs and outputs within 30 days and doesn't use them for training. Remove your name too if you prefer.
Does a high score mean my CV will get through?
This checker can't promise that. The score tells you how close your CV is to a structure that works for pharma, biotech and CRO hiring. Whether you get the interview also depends on the role, the competition and how well your experience fits.
Want me to rewrite it for the role you want?
The checker shows you where your CV loses the reader. I write the fix: your evidence, in the order a pharma Hiring Manager reads it, for the role you're targeting. CV packages start at €149, and every one includes a cover letter written for one target role. Add LinkedIn and I rewrite your profile to match.
See the CV and LinkedIn rewriteAsk my AI persona anything about your application · Free pharma CV templates