ATS Resume Scanner
Paste the job posting, add your resume, and see what the software sees: how well you match, which of the posting's keywords are missing, the military phrasing a recruiter will skip past, and the formatting that keeps resumes from parsing at all. Part of the one-time Career Floor Plan unlock — scan as many postings as you like and save each one as a PDF.
How to get a useful scan
Paste the entire job posting, not just the title. The requirements and responsibilities sections are where the keywords live, and a scan against a job title alone is close to worthless.
Upload the actual file rather than pasting text when you can. Pasting tells us what your resume says; uploading also lets us see how it is built, which is where most parsing failures come from.
Then run it again after you make the fixes. Two or three passes on one posting will teach you more about civilian resume writing than any article, including ours.
Questions people ask
What is an ATS and why does it matter?
An applicant tracking system is software most mid-size and large employers use to store and filter applications. Before a human reads your resume, the system parses it into fields and scores it against the job posting. If it cannot read your file or does not find the posting's language in it, a qualified person gets filtered out. That is the whole reason this tool exists.
Is a resume ATS score real?
Partly. There is no universal score, because Workday, Taleo, Greenhouse, and iCIMS all parse and rank differently, and most employers tune their own settings on top. What can be measured honestly is whether your resume covers the posting's language and whether its formatting parses cleanly. Treat any number, ours included, as a signal rather than a verdict.
What formatting breaks applicant tracking systems?
Two-column layouts, text inside tables or text boxes, contact details in the header or footer, graphics and icons carrying information, unusual fonts, and PDFs exported as images. A plain single-column document with real text and standard headings parses almost everywhere.
How do I add keywords without lying?
Only add a term if you actually did the work. Most veterans are missing keywords they have genuinely earned but described in military language, like writing property book instead of inventory management. That is a translation problem, not an experience problem. If a term names something you have never done, leave it off and target roles where your real record fits.
Should I use the same resume for every application?
No. The single highest-return habit in a job search is tailoring the resume to each posting, because the system is scoring against that posting's specific language. Keep one master document and cut a tailored copy per application.
Need the resume itself?
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