Key Takeaways

  • 75% of U.S. employers use automated applicant tracking systems to screen resumes before a human reviews them (Harvard Business School & Accenture, 2021)
  • The most common ATS failures are missing keywords, incompatible formatting, and incorrect file types
  • ResumeGeni scores your resume across 8 parsing layers — modeled on the same steps enterprise ATS platforms like Workday, Greenhouse, and Taleo use to evaluate candidates

How ATS Resume Scoring Works

Applicant tracking systems parse your resume into structured data — extracting your name, contact info, work history, skills, and education — then score how well that data matches the job requirements. Many ATS rejections happen because the parser couldn't extract critical fields, not because the candidate wasn't qualified.

LayerWhat It ChecksWhy It Matters
Document extractionFile format, encoding, readabilityCorrupted or image-only PDFs fail immediately
Layout analysisTables, columns, headers, footersMulti-column layouts break field extraction
Section detectionExperience, education, skills headingsNon-standard headings cause sections to be missed
Field mappingName, email, phone, dates, titlesMissing contact info is a common cause of immediate rejection
Keyword matchingJob-specific terms, skills, certificationsKeyword overlap affects recruiter search visibility and ATS scoring
Chronology checkDate ordering, gap detectionReverse-chronological order is expected by most ATS
QuantificationMetrics, numbers, measurable outcomesQuantified achievements help human reviewers and some scoring models
Confidence scoringOverall parse quality and completenessLow-confidence parses get deprioritized in results

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ResumeGeni free?
Yes. ResumeGeni is currently in beta — ATS analysis, scoring, and initial improvement suggestions are free with no signup required. Full guidance and saved reports may require a free account.
What file formats are supported?
PDF, DOCX, DOC, TXT, RTF, ODT, and Apple Pages. PDF and DOCX are recommended for best ATS compatibility.
How is the ATS score calculated?
Your resume is processed through an 8-layer parsing pipeline that extracts structured data the same way enterprise ATS platforms do. The score reflects how completely and accurately your resume can be parsed, plus how well your content matches common ATS ranking criteria.
Can ATS read PDF resumes?
Yes, but not all PDFs are equal. Text-based PDFs parse well. Image-only PDFs (scanned documents) and PDFs with complex tables or multi-column layouts often fail ATS parsing. Our analyzer will flag these issues.
How do I improve my ATS score?
Focus on three areas: use a clean single-column format, include keywords from the job description naturally in your experience bullets, and ensure all sections (contact, experience, education, skills) use standard headings.

ATS Guides & Resources

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Growth Manager- EMEA (Turkish Speaking)

Aarkiinc · London

Growth Manager
London

Who are we?

Aarki is an AI-driven company specializing in mobile advertising solutions designed to fuel revenue growth. We leverage AI to discover audiences in a privacy-first environment through trillions of contextual bidding signals and proprietary behavioral models. Our audience engagement platform includes creative strategy and execution. We handle 5 million mobile ad requests per second from over 10 billion devices, driving performance for both publishers and brands. We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with a global presence across the United States, EMEA, and APAC.

The role?

A Growth Manager drives revenue retention and growth by identifying and executing the highest-impact opportunities across the assigned portfolio of business through growth and product adoption. At the account level, this translates to creating a growth plan, effective progress communication using operational excellence through forecasting and pipeline management. They leverage data-driven insights to build consultative, strategic partnerships across client organizations, prioritize initiatives, and measure what truly moves the business through QBRs and ongoing performance reviews.
Internally, they cultivate strong cross-functional relationships to align teams, remove blockers, and ensure growth strategies are executed with precision and impact.

What will you do?

Revenue Retention & Growth

  • Drive net growth across the book of business with the aim of meeting or exceeding revenue targets
  • Identifying and selling growth opportunities, and managing risks
  • Driving expansion, product adoption, and deploying churn prevention/re-activation strategies
  • Contribute to the long-term revenue pipeline by identifying customer needs and business gaps

Client Ownership & Strategy

  • Own strategic creation and execution of account growth plan
  • Build strong client relationships across the client organization - peer and uplevel
  • Establish QBR cadence and leverage it to drive progress and deliverables on the growth plan
  • Translate complex product and technical concepts into clear strategies for clients
  • Provide competitive market insights and exercise of best practices
  • Ability to drive product adoption through effective communication of product/market changes

Campaign Management & Performance Insights

  • Close collaboration with Analyst team to ensure launch, execution, and performance optimization in line with client goals and growth plan
  • Maintain proactive account health monitoring, set up basic reporting, create a hypothesis for performance improvement/ issues 
  • Recommend creative refresh strategies based on performance decay/fatigue
  • Deliver actionable insights tied to business outcomes, not just metrics

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Guide/ Manage/ Set Tone for cross functional effort w/ internal teams to deliver against customer expectations, KPIs, and growth plan
  • Maintain structured escalation paths to resolve issues in line with customer expectations
  • Conduct client training sessions, platform walkthroughs, and onboarding
  • Document key wins and learnings for internal playbooks and knowledge sharing

Operational Excellence

  • Maintain clean forecasting, CRM hygiene, documentation, and reporting
  • Ensure timely, accurate invoicing, and financial alignment
  • Use rigorous meeting management and QA workflows to minimize errors

What are we looking for?

  • 2-4 years of Mobile Advertising experience, preferably in Account Management.
  • Knowledge of the programmatic ecosystem.
  • Ability to adapt to a fast-growing company and drive growth-focused initiatives is a must.
  • Outstanding communication skills with clients, building trustworthy relationships.
  • Excellence in problem-solving, logical and out-of-box thinking to achieve goals.
  • Great co-working skills with multiple stakeholders from different backgrounds.
  • Familiarity with data and numbers, understanding AI/ML, and advertising technology is plus. 
  • Ownership and passions for continuous growth and success. 
  • Turkish language fluency is MANDATORY.
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