How to Get Your Resume Past Gupy (Brazil's Top ATS)

If you're applying to jobs at almost any large Brazilian company — Nubank, iFood, Mercado Livre, Magalu, Stone, XP — your currículo goes through Gupy first. Built in São Paulo, Gupy is the dominant applicant tracking system in Brazil, and unlike the big US systems, its parser is tuned specifically for Portuguese-language resumes. That changes a few things about how you should format your currículo. Here's how Gupy reads you and how to get through cleanly.

Key takeaways

Gupy runs hiring at most large Brazilian employers. It parses your currículo into a searchable candidate profile before a recruiter sees it.
Its parser is tuned for Portuguese. Standard Portuguese section headings trigger its optimized parsing path — English-only currículos can underperform on Brazilian-domestic roles.
The format rules are universal: single column, real text, standard headings, no tables, graphics, or header-only contact details.
Match the vaga's exact keywords so recruiter searches surface you from a large pool.
A photo won't help you parse. Even where photos are cultural in Brazil, the image carries no readable text — keep your real information as plain text.

What Gupy does with your currículo

Like any ATS, Gupy parses your file into structured text and builds a searchable candidate record (the general mechanics are in what an ATS is and how it reads your resume). Because Gupy is used across most of Brazil's largest private employers and handles very high applicant volumes, recruiters rely heavily on searching and filtering that database. If your name, titles, dates, or skills didn't extract cleanly, the search that should have found you never does. For the wider Brazilian picture, see our Brazil currículo format guide.

The Portuguese-parser advantage

Here's what makes Gupy different from Workday or Taleo: its parser is optimized for Portuguese. Standard Portuguese section headings are pre-mapped, so using them puts you on Gupy's best parsing path:

Resumo Profissional (professional summary)
Experiência Profissional (work experience)
Formação Acadêmica (education)
Habilidades Técnicas (technical skills)

For Brazilian-domestic roles, a Portuguese-language currículo with these headings often parses more cleanly than an identical English one. If you're applying to a multinational or an explicitly English-language role, English is fine — but match the language of the posting.

What breaks in Gupy (and every other ATS)

Two-column layouts — read across the page and scramble your history (why two columns break).
Header/footer-only contact details — may be skipped (do ATS read headers and footers).
Tables, graphics, icons, and photos of text — carry no readable content.
Non-standard headings — use the standard labels so content maps to the right fields.

The format that gets through Gupy

Single column, top to bottom.
Plain-text name and contact in the body of page one.
Standard Portuguese headings (Resumo, Experiência, Formação, Habilidades) for Brazilian roles.
Real, selectable text in a clean PDF or .docx — never a scanned image.
Skills as plain text, mirroring the posting's terms (how to list skills).

It's the same core format that works for every system — see how to pass the ATS for the full method, applied here with Portuguese headings.

Then be findable in the pool

At high-volume Gupy employers, being readable gets you in; being relevant gets you found. Mirror the specific vaga's exact skills and tools in your bullets and skills section, honestly. According to Gupy, its platform is used by thousands of Brazilian companies to manage recruitment at scale — so getting both the format and the keywords right is what separates you from the pile (more on ranking in how ATS scoring works).

Check what Gupy would see

You can't tell whether your currículo parses cleanly by looking at it. Verify it before you apply: the free copy-paste test gives a quick read, and a free ATS scan shows the exact text pulled from your file — with no invented score and no signup. Then read our Brazil currículo format guide for the full local playbook.

Frequently asked questions

What is Gupy and who uses it?

Gupy is Brazil's dominant applicant tracking system, built in São Paulo and used by most large Brazilian private-sector employers, including Nubank, iFood, Mercado Livre, Magalu, Stone, and XP. When you apply to those companies, your currículo goes through Gupy's parser and into a searchable candidate database before a recruiter reviews it.

Should my currículo be in Portuguese or English for Gupy?

For Brazilian-domestic roles, a Portuguese-language currículo with standard headings (Resumo Profissional, Experiência Profissional, Formação Acadêmica, Habilidades Técnicas) tends to parse most cleanly, because Gupy's parser is tuned for Portuguese. For multinationals or explicitly English-language roles, English is fine — match the language of the job posting.

What format works best for Gupy?

A single-column layout with a plain-text name and contact in the body, standard section headings, real selectable text (clean PDF or .docx, not an image), and skills as plain text. Avoid two-column layouts, tables, graphics, and header-only contact details, which can scramble or drop content during parsing.

Does a photo help my currículo on Gupy?

No, at least not for parsing. Even though photos are culturally common on Brazilian currículos, an image carries no readable text, so it does nothing for the ATS and can complicate the layout. Keep all your real information — name, contact, titles, dates — as plain selectable text so the parser captures it.