See why the ATS drops your resume before a recruiter ever opens it.

An ATS (Applicant Tracking System) is the software most companies use to collect and filter resumes before a human reads them. Roughly 90% of large employers use one. If the parser cannot read your resume because of tables, columns, images, or content hidden in headers, your qualifications never make it into the database, and you get rejected without anyone seeing your experience.

Yes. Your score and top fixes are free with no signup, as many times as you want. If you upload a file, we read it on our server so PDFs work on phones, keep the text for 7 days in case you save your results, then delete it. Saving the full report takes a free account.

Aim for 85 or higher. A score in the 70s usually means one or two structural problems worth fixing before you apply. Below 60 means the resume likely fails to parse cleanly and needs a rebuild in a single-column layout with standard section headings.

Modern ATS platforms rank candidates by how well resume content matches the job description, so the right keywords matter. But stuffing the same term over and over backfires. The goal is coverage, not repetition: mention each relevant skill naturally two to four times in context.