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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Engagement Manager - PE Engagements

Aleph · Americas

About Aleph

Aleph is an AI-native platform for Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), an established software category with a multi-billion market but no clear winner. We’re trying to solve a problem many finance teams are super familiar with: data scattered across a million systems, endless spreadsheets and way too much time spent getting numbers to line up instead of actually using them to make decisions.

Aleph was founded by Albert Gozzi and Santiago Perez De Rosso, two technical founders with backgrounds from Stanford and MIT and experience working at top-tier companies such as Google, Microsoft and Bain & Company. We’re backed by top VCs (Khosla Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, YC, Picus Capital), and work with customers like Webflow, Notion, Zapier, Y Combinator and many others.

We are hiring remotely across the Americas (United States, Canada, LATAM).

🔍 What we're looking for

Aleph is looking for a PE Engagement Manager to work hands-on with finance teams at PE-backed companies as they upgrade their FP&A infrastructure with Aleph. This unique role combines customer success responsibilities with data analytics expertise, offering an exciting opportunity to apply your financial skills in a client-facing, impact-driven environment. You will dive deep into customers’ financial infrastructure to onboard them onto Aleph and become their primary point of contact for onboarding and day-to-day usage as they expand their Aleph implementation across use cases (i.e., reporting, budgeting, headcount planning).

We are a small, high-impact team, and this role plays a key part in scaling Aleph’s Private Equity motion by making onboarding repeatable, reliable, and effective across portfolio companies. You will also collaborate with our product and engineering teams by surfacing customer feedback to inform the product roadmap.


👷 What you’ll be doing

  • Onboard PE-backed customers onto Aleph and support them as they adopt core FP&A workflows

  • Determine and establish effective ways to enhance PE-backed customers’ FP&A setup with Aleph

  • Develop lasting, trust-based partnerships with finance teams at PE-backed companies

  • Monitor usage metrics to identify adoption gaps and improve usage for assigned customers

  • Act as the voice of the customer by surfacing feedback and insights to product and engineering teams

📝 About you

  • 3+ years of experience in Private Equity, or on the finance team of a PE-backed company

  • Ideally, experience working at an early-stage tech startup

  • Proficient in Excel / Google Sheets modeling

  • You have an ownership mentality and are excited to take on responsibility

  • You are passionate about working closely with customers

  • You communicate clearly and are able to build rapport

  • You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

  • You are comfortable managing multiple customers and priorities in parallel

  • You are comfortable working on a remote team

While this is a remote-first opportunity, we're focusing on candidates within the Americas to better align with our working hours as a team.

Aleph is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Aleph makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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