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Resume formatting software for staffing agenciesResume formatting your client can tell apart.

Turn the resume a candidate sent you into a branded submittal in seconds, with every extracted field checkable against the original before it reaches the hiring manager. A resume formatter built for staffing desks rather than job seekers: your template, your logo, their facts.

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Restored word for word
  • Employersstet
  • Job titlesstet
  • Datesstet
  • Qualificationsstet

At every rewrite level, these come back exactly as the source resume had them.

The submittal, end to end

Three steps, and you review the middle one.

  1. 01

    Drop in the resume you were sent

    PDF or Word, formatted however the candidate wrote it — including the ones that are one unbroken block of text. Every field is pulled out and structured into a single record you can edit.

  2. 02your review

    Check it before it goes out

    Each extracted value links back to where it came from in the original file. Click a field and the source document opens with that value highlighted. Where the parser was unsure, it says so and shows the alternatives it considered.

  3. 03

    Send it on your letterhead

    Your template, your logo, your colors. Export PDF or Word, or share a link the client opens in a browser. The candidate's original file stays attached to the record.

Where the AI stops

It rewrites the writing. It does not invent the facts.

Rewriting runs at a level you pick, from formatting-only through to a full professional rewrite. At every level a deterministic check compares the result against the source resume.

What is checked automatically

  • Employers, job titles, dates and qualifications are restored word for word.
  • Every number in the rewrite has to exist in the source, in the same section — a figure cannot move between jobs or change which metric it belongs to.
  • Company and institution names that were not in the original resume are rejected.
  • If a rewrite fails a check, you get the resume back unchanged with the reason, not a plausible document containing something invented.

What is your call, not ours

  • Whether the rewritten prose still means what the candidate meant. That is shown to you as a diff, and you approve it.
  • Redaction is checked pattern matching, reported honestly — not a compliance certification.
  • Word export is a close approximation of the PDF layout, not a pixel match.
The resumes that arrive badly

It reads the ones that show up as a wall of text.

We tested against 700 real resumes rather than tidy samples, and the median one had no line breaks at all. Candidates send what their last builder exported. A layout-based parser gives up on those quietly, returning half a sentence where the employer should be; this one reads the document as text when the layout gives it nothing to work with.

Recruiter

Own the submittal

Fix anything the parser got wrong, decide how much of the prose changes, and see a diff of every AI edit before you accept it.

Operations

Set the format once

Approved templates, brand colors and logo placement live at the account level, so a new hire's first submittal looks like your tenth year of them.

Compliance

Keep it checkable

Explicit redaction toggles for name, contact details and employer names, with a scan that reports what it could not confidently remove rather than guessing.

Questions staffing firms ask

Resume formatting software, answered.

What is resume formatting software?

Software that takes a resume in whatever layout the candidate sent and produces a consistently formatted document from it, usually on the staffing firm's own branded template. It reads the text, works out the sections and sets the same content in the template, so every submittal reaches the client in the same shape.

What is the best tool to format a resume?

For a staffing desk, one that shows you what it was unsure about, keeps the candidate's facts unchanged unless you approve an edit, applies your template and exports both PDF and Word. For an individual, any tool that keeps your text in a single readable column and lets you check the result before you send it.

What software do employers use for resumes?

Applicant tracking systems such as Workday, Greenhouse and iCIMS on the employer side, and recruiting CRMs such as Bullhorn on the staffing side. They parse a resume into fields; a resume formatting tool sits beside them and produces the document the client reads.

Does ConnectIQ integrate with Bullhorn?

Not today. It works alongside your ATS or CRM: export the formatted resume as PDF or Word and attach it to the candidate record. Integrations are on the roadmap, not built.

Will the AI change what the candidate wrote?

Only as far as you choose. Format only makes no rewrite call; higher modes can tidy or rewrite the prose, but employers, titles, dates and qualifications are restored word for word and every change is shown as a diff you approve.

Is ConnectIQ a resume formatting service?

It is software, not a service: your recruiters get a formatted, checkable resume in seconds with no outsourced team and no turnaround. Resume formatting and writing services suit people who want someone else to do the work by hand, at a much higher price per resume.

How much does resume formatting software cost?

ConnectIQ runs from a free first conversion to $119 a month for 1,000 resumes, about 12 cents each. Every price is on the pricing page, with no sales call.

Start on one resume

Use one you already sent a client.

Your first conversion is free, no card. Use a resume you have already sent to a client and compare it against what you sent.

US accounts are billed in US dollars — see pricing.