# Six-Second Scan > See what part of page one a recruiter reads first, and which of your strongest facts sit outside it. No score, no eye tracking: a position, not a grade. Source: https://www.revquix.com/tools/six-second-scan Cost: 1 credit a run, needs an account --- A first pass over a resume is short. This shows you exactly what is inside that window on yours - and which of your strongest facts are not, so you can move them up. ## Where the six seconds comes from The figure comes from published recruiter eye-tracking research by The Ladders. It is not something Revquix has measured, and we do not do eye tracking - we use it the way the industry does, as a rule of thumb for how long a first pass takes. What this tool actually does is deterministic and checkable, which matters more than the number. It takes the part of page one a reader reaches first in reading order, and reports which of four specific signals are not in it: how long you have been doing this, your core stack, your strongest measurable result, and your seniority. ## Why position beats content here Almost every resume we see has the good material on it somewhere. The problem is rarely that a candidate has nothing to say; it is that the best fact is in the third bullet of the second role, and the top of page one is a title, a generic summary and a list of skills - which is what everybody else's top of page one also is. A skills list inside the first pass is a claim. The same technology named inside a bullet with an outcome attached is evidence. When the evidence is below the fold, a fast reader only ever sees the claim, and claims do not differentiate. ## On a two-column resume it refuses to answer Reading order across two columns interleaves them, so the "first twelve lines" of a two-column document is a sentence from each side of the page in alternation. Every finding derived from that would be wrong, so the tool declines and tells you why rather than producing a confident answer from a broken premise. That refusal is useful information on its own. A two-column layout is also the layout most applicant tracking systems mis-read, which is worth knowing before you send it anywhere. The ATS Resume Checker is free and will tell you what else that layout is doing. ## What this tool will not do It will not give you a score. There is no number out of a hundred here, because the finding is a position rather than a grade - a fact is either inside the first pass or it is not, and averaging that into a score would invent a precision it does not have. It will not claim to track anybody's eyes. We compute reading order from your document; we do not observe readers. It will not rewrite your resume. It tells you which facts to move up and which line is doing the least work. Moving them is a five-minute edit, and it is yours to make. ## Questions people ask ### Do recruiters really only spend six seconds? That figure comes from published eye-tracking studies by The Ladders, not from anything Revquix has measured, and we cite it as the industry's own rule of thumb rather than as a fact about your applications. The useful part does not depend on the exact number: whatever the duration of a first pass, it is short enough that a fact on page two is not in it. ### Is this an eye-tracking tool? No. We do not observe readers and we make no claim to. What the tool computes is the part of page one that comes first in your document's own reading order, which is deterministic and checkable - you can see the extracted text in the report and confirm it is your resume's opening. The six-second framing is context for why that region matters. ### Why does it refuse on my two-column resume? Because reading order across two columns interleaves them, so the first twelve lines of the extracted text would be alternating fragments from both sides of the page, and every finding derived from that would be wrong. Rather than produce a confident answer from a broken premise, the tool says it cannot read the layout reliably. Nothing is charged for that run, and it is worth knowing separately - a two-column layout is also the one most applicant tracking systems mis-read. ### Why is there no score? Because the finding is a position rather than a quality. Your years of experience are either inside the first pass or they are not; there is no meaningful way to be 63% inside it. Rolling four binary observations into a number out of a hundred would look more rigorous and tell you less. If you want a scored, weighted view of the whole document, that is what the AI Resume Analyzer is for. ### What counts as a strong fact? Four things, and the tool checks each of them independently: how many years you have been doing this stated as a number rather than left to be added up from dates, your core technology stack, your strongest quantified result, and your seniority. Each one that is missing from the first pass comes with a short explanation of why it matters there specifically.