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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Customer Success Manager - NYC

Carbonchain · New York City, NY, USA

Do you want to work on the most pressing problem of our generation at an ambitious and scrappy series A startup? If so, we’d like to hear from you. Our success is driven by the success of our customers, and we’re looking for a new Customer Success Manager passionate about supporting our customers in realizing their climate goals. At CarbonChain we see the climate challenge as a transformative opportunity for the global economy, and a rewarding career opportunity for those willing to take on the challenge of a rapidly evolving market.

 

Decarbonizing the economy requires a granular, real-time view of where emissions come from and how they might be reduced. We’ve built software to automate the carbon footprinting of supply chains. Banks, traders, and manufacturers use our product to tame the complexity of international supply networks, identify the most carbon-intensive parts, and find lower-carbon alternatives. Having developed technology which is significantly ahead of competitive solutions, we are now investing heavily in market adoption.

 

You’ll take responsibility for being a customer champion and unlocking the full potential of CarbonChain to drive value for every user. You’ll be curious about discovering and solving customer problems, and enjoy working closely with the technologists who develop our product, bringing back insights from the market into what our customers and users want. Your feedback will help shape our roadmap, and you’ll be supported by a crack team that loves to ship quickly and get products into customers’ hands.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Being a trusted partner to strategic accounts to drive value and successful business outcomes
  • Defining customer success plans and continually being on the lookout for opportunities to grow the account (within departments or into new departments)
  • Winning Executive Sponsors and cultivating Adoption Champions
  • Proactively anticipating customer challenges and risks, and creating remedial plans to address these to avoid churn
  • Defining, mapping and implementing customer lifecycle touch points, including business reviews, customer satisfaction surveys, reference programs, case studies, and others
  • Collaborating and working in tandem with the Sales and Product team to orchestrate the necessary resources to foster a seamless customer experience and embed a culture of customer success at CarbonChain
  • Becoming an expert on decarbonization and the challenges we can help our clients overcome on their journey to Net Zero

 

Requirements:

  • A right to work in the USA (please note this is a hard requirement)
  • At least 5 years of experience in management consulting, customer success, account management or  operations / strategy at a fast-growing startup
  • Experience in commodities, manufacturing, or sustainability
  • Happy to work from our Union Square office with our team three days a week
  • Ability to work with diverse teams and move quickly in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
  • An ownership mentality. We are looking for someone who can deliver impact despite having ample excuses not to. Sometimes this will mean doing work that is not in your job description
  • Deep customer empathy. You should be able to use first–principles thinking to suss out what our customers will be excited by

 

Benefits

CarbonChainer’s receive a ton of great benefits, including: 

  • 28 days of annual leave + federal holidays
  • Home office set up allowance of $500
  • $2,000 annual learning allowance
  • $1,000 remote working allowance
  • Team lunches once a week in the office
  • Generous parental leave policy
  • Private healthcare

CarbonChain values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. 

If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join the next Climate Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!

You can find out more about interviewing at CarbonChain at https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process.

OTE range: $108,000 - $158,000

CarbonChain values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. 

If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join the next Climate Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!

You can find out more about interviewing at CarbonChain at https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process.