Five things that decide if you get parsed
Each check is weighted into one overall score, with plain-English fixes for anything that's hurting you.
Text Extraction
Whether your file's text can be pulled out cleanly — image-based or scanned PDFs fail here entirely.
Section Detection
Whether standard headers — Experience, Education, Skills, Contact — are recognizable to a parser.
Contact Completeness
Whether your name, email, and phone are in plain text an ATS can extract into its database.
Formatting Hygiene
Consistent dates, real bullet points, and no special-character clutter or table-based layouts.
Content Density
Enough substance — skills, experience entries, word count — without padding or repetition.
One Deterministic Score
The same resume always gets the same score. No AI guesswork — just the same rules every ATS-focused recruiter cares about.
Why this matters before you apply
Catch Silent Rejections
A resume that never reaches a human looks identical to one that was rejected — except you can fix the real cause.
Concrete, Not Vague
Every issue comes with a specific fix — not generic "improve your formatting" advice.
Check Every Version
No daily limit — re-check after every edit until every dimension is clean.
Then Check Your Skills
A parseable resume still needs the right skills — pair this with a free Skill Score for the full picture.