See the six-second scan.
Land in the hot zone.
A recruiter skims your résumé for seconds before deciding. Paste yours and watch the Heat Map light up exactly where their eyes go — then see whether your strongest lines land where they actually look. Then a real person can rebuild it for you.
Recruiters don't read — they scan.
Eyes land at the top, sweep across, then run down the left edge in an F-shape, fading toward the bottom-right. If your best line is buried in a cold zone, it never gets seen. Paste your résumé and find out where the heat is.
Paste your résumé and hit Map my résumé. You'll see the hot zones light up, a Hot-Zone Score, and the lines to move.
Where their eyes land
Move these into the heat
That's the free taste. Want a real person to rebuild this so your strongest lines land in the hot zones — and run the outreach to get it seen? A Marqee strategist does the whole thing for you.
Start your free 48-hour trial →Directional, illustrative model of the scan — a starting point, not a guarantee or live eye-tracking result.
It shows you the résumé a recruiter actually sees.
The Heat Map models the F-pattern skim and paints your résumé hot-to-cold so you can see, at a glance, which lines register in the first few seconds and which get skipped. Then it checks whether your name, headline, and quantified wins are sitting in the heat. Built for everyone fighting for attention in a stack: new grads, busy professionals, career changers reframing a story, and execs who need impact up top.
See the scan in three steps.
Paste your résumé
Drop it in with your line breaks intact. It stays in your browser — nothing is uploaded or stored.
Watch the heat appear
We overlay the F-pattern scan and paint every line hot to cold, then score how much of your strongest content lands where eyes actually go.
Move your best lines up
We flag the wins hiding in cold zones so you can lift them into the heat — then share your before-and-after Hot-Zone Score.
The Heat Map is genuinely free. Here's where a human takes over.
No dark patterns. The tool below does real work at no cost. The managed service is for when you want it actually done for you.
| What you get | Free Backstage tool | Marqee (managed) |
|---|---|---|
| Six-second scan heat map | Unlimited, free | Rebuilt around the hot zones |
| Hot-Zone Score | Instant, in-browser | Tracked across every draft |
| Lines to move | Flagged for you | Moved & rewritten by a strategist |
| Full layout rebuild | You do it | A real person does it |
| Recruiter outreach & referrals | — | Done for you |
| Applications submitted | — | A real person hits send |
Some advanced layout features may be account-gated. The core Heat Map stays free.
About the Heat Map.
It visualizes the six-second scan — the brief skim a recruiter gives most résumés before deciding to read on. It overlays your résumé with a heat map of hot zones (the top and upper-left, where eyes land first) and cold zones (the lower-right, often skipped), then scores whether your most important lines fall in the hot zones.
Recruiters skim a résumé for only a few seconds before deciding whether to read it fully. Eye-tracking research shows that skim follows an F-shaped pattern: across the top, down the left edge, with attention fading toward the bottom-right. The Heat Map models that pattern so you can see what a recruiter actually registers.
Yes, it's completely free with no account required. Your résumé text is analyzed locally in your browser using transparent heuristics — nothing is uploaded, scraped, or stored. Refresh the page and it's gone.
The Hot-Zone Score is a directional, illustrative measure, out of 100, of how much of your strongest content — name, headline, quantified wins — lands in the zones a recruiter actually scans. Higher means your best lines are where eyes go. It's a starting point for editing, not a guarantee or a live eye-tracking result.
Seeing the scan is the free taste. Start a free 48-hour trial and a dedicated Marqee strategist will rebuild your résumé so your strongest lines land in the hot zones, then run recruiter outreach and tailor every application for you — so you stop applying and start interviewing.
Put your best lines
where they look.
The map is the taste. The trial is the real thing — a dedicated strategist who rebuilds your résumé and runs your search, so you get top billing with the people who hire.