🎯 ATS Resume Checker

What this checker looks at

It scores seven things real Applicant Tracking Systems and recruiters care about: contact information, standard section headings, length, quantified achievements, strong action verbs, parse-safe formatting, and — when you add a job description — keyword match against the ad.

How to get a higher score

Use standard headings (Summary, Work Experience, Education, Skills), put numbers in your bullets, start bullets with action verbs, and mirror the job ad's exact vocabulary for skills you genuinely have. Keep it to one or two pages and skip tables, icons and photos.

Why ATS screening matters in 2026

Most mid-size and large companies now route applications through an Applicant Tracking System before a human ever sees them. Popular platforms such as Workday, Greenhouse, Lever and Taleo parse your resume into structured fields — name, contact, skills, job titles, dates — and rank or filter candidates on how well that data matches the job requisition. If the parser cannot read your file cleanly, you can be rejected on formatting alone, no matter how strong your experience is. Industry surveys consistently estimate that a large majority of resumes are filtered out automatically at this stage. A quick ATS check before you hit "submit" tells you whether your resume survives the machine round — so the recruiter round is a chance you actually get.

Common mistakes that fail ATS scans

• Two-column layouts, icons and photos: Parsers read text left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Columns get interleaved into nonsense, decorative icons break word order, and embedded photos or graphics often cause sections to be skipped entirely. Stick to a single column with plain text bullets.
• Non-standard headings: Creative headings like "My Journey" or "Where I've Been" are not recognised as section markers. Use the boring, standard names — Summary, Work Experience, Education, Skills — so the parser maps your content to the right fields.
• Generic, duty-only bullets: "Responsible for managing tasks" tells the parser nothing to match. Bullets without numbers, action verbs or the job ad's exact keywords score poorly on both keyword match and impact, which is exactly what the checker flags in its suggestions list.