Is Your Résumé Strong Enough — and Will It Beat the ATS?

An applicant tracking system parses your file into fields — name, contact, work history, education, skills — then ranks you against the job's requirements, mostly by keyword overlap. Anything it can't parse is invisible to the recruiter who reviews the shortlist.

The usual failure modes are structural: multi-column layouts and tables, contact details trapped in a header or text box, non-standard section headings, dates the parser can't read, and image-only PDFs. This tool checks for each of those in the text it can extract.

Recruiters skim. A strong bullet starts with a past-tense action verb and contains a number: “Cut checkout time 43% (90s → 51s), lifting conversion 12%.” A weak bullet describes a duty: “Responsible for improving the checkout flow.”

The review counts how many of your bullets are quantified and how many open with a strong verb, and flags filler phrases (“team player”, “proven track record”) that take up space without adding evidence.

Paste the job description and the review pulls out its most-weighted terms, checks which appear in your résumé, and lists the ones that don't. Add the missing terms wherever they're genuinely true of you — in your bullets and your skills section, in the same words the posting uses. Don't stuff keywords you can't back up in an interview.