Your ATS score is a readability check: it estimates how reliably a typical applicant tracking system can extract and understand your resume, and how clearly your content is presented.
The score is not a prediction of whether you will be shortlisted. Different employers use different systems and different criteria. Use the score as feedback for improvement, not as a verdict.
The seven dimensions
- ATS readability — whether the file, layout, and structure parse cleanly.
- Skills — whether the skills relevant to the role inferred from your resume are present and supported by real experience.
- Content — clarity, specificity, repetition, and how well each section is written.
- Experience — whether your work history shows outcomes, not just duties.
- Projects — whether projects explain what was built, with which technologies, and what they achieved.
- Structure — recognizable sections in a sensible order.
- Writing — language quality, tone, and consistency, including typos and clichés.
The exact weights for each dimension are published on the ATS score methodology page. We publish them because a score you cannot understand is a score you cannot act on.
What the score cannot do
The analyzer evaluates presentation, not truth. It cannot verify that a bullet point is accurate, and it cannot know what a specific employer is looking for. A high score means your resume is easy to read and clearly written — it is not a guarantee of interviews.
Improving a low score
Start with the lowest-scoring dimension and fix one thing at a time. Formatting and structure problems usually take minutes to fix and often lift the other dimensions too, because a cleaner document is easier for every part of the analysis to read.