Your ATS score, out of 100
Upload your resume, paste the job you're targeting, and get the number plus every deduction explained. Same engine that scores every resume we deliver — nothing ships below 80.
What the 100 points are made of
Nothing here is a black box. This is the whole rubric, weights included.
Quantified impact
Bullets carrying a real number. Full marks at 70% — the heaviest single category.
Keyword match
Coverage against the job description you paste. Full marks at 60%; near-total overlap is penalised as stuffing.
Section structure
Summary, experience, education and skills present, plus parseable employment dates.
Contact details
Email, phone and a profile URL a parser can actually extract from the body.
Action verbs
Strong openings, and no “responsible for”, “worked on” or “helped with”.
Bullet length
Twelve to forty-two words. Shorter has no room for outcome; longer stops being read.
Then the deductions
Format and hygiene violations come off the top, capped at 20 points total.
- Multi-column or table layout — −5
- Image-only or graphics-heavy file — −5
- Date of birth, marital status, declaration blocks — up to −5
- First-person pronouns — −2
- Long blocks of capitals — −2
Six ways a good resume gets thrown out
Every one of these is invisible until something reads your file the way a machine does.
Two-column templates
The single biggest killer. Parsers read left to right across the whole page, so your sidebar skills end up interleaved with your job titles.
Contact details in the header
Many parsers skip page headers and footers entirely. Your email may simply not exist as far as the system is concerned.
Creative section names
“My Journey” and “What I Bring” read beautifully to a human and mean nothing to a parser looking for “Work Experience”.
Skills as icons or rating bars
Five filled stars next to “Python” carries exactly zero machine-readable information — and tells a human nothing either.
Dates without months
“2021 – 2023” leaves the system guessing at tenure. Consistent “Mar 2021 – Jun 2023” builds a clean timeline.
A resume exported as an image
Design tools and some “beautiful CV” sites export flattened graphics. The page looks perfect and contains no text at all.