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 Creative Director

Crypto.com · Singapore, Singapore

The Growth Creative Director is a strategic creative leader responsible for setting the creative vision for full‑funnel performance campaigns, from awareness to conversion. This role combines brand‑level thinking, data‑driven optimisation, and deep channel expertise to deliver high‑impact creative that scales across social and digital platforms. This position requires solid knowledge in performance‑driven creatives and hands‑on experience with AI tools, and offers the flexibility of remote work, enabling effective collaboration from anywhere.
The Growth Creative Director is a strategic creative leader responsible for setting the creative vision for full‑funnel performance campaigns, from awareness to conversion. This role combines brand‑level thinking, data‑driven optimisation, and deep channel expertise to deliver high‑impact creative that scales across social and digital platforms. This position requires solid knowledge in performance‑driven creatives and hands‑on experience with AI tools, and offers the flexibility of remote work, enabling effective collaboration from anywhere.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the end‑to‑end creative strategy for growth and performance campaigns, for Crypto.com, OG.com and AI.com, defining creative territories, narratives, and testing roadmaps across the full funnel (awareness, consideration, conversion, and retention).

  • Develop a deep understanding of the product, customer journeys, and brand positioning, and translate this into tailored creative approaches for each funnel stage and audience segment.

  • Translate business and marketing objectives into clear creative briefs and directions for Art Directors, copywriters, designers, and external partners, ensuring all work ladders up to growth KPIs.

  • Partner closely with performance marketing, growth, content strategist, and analytics teams to interpret data, identify insights, and continuously refine creative concepts, formats, and messaging based on results.

  • Build and oversee a structured creative experimentation framework (A/B and multivariate testing) to validate hypotheses on formats, offers, and visual approaches across channels.

  • Drive improvements in ideation, versioning, production speed, and personalised content at scale by utilising AI and automation tools - such as Claude, Cursor, and Gemini for automation, and Weavy and Higgsfield for creative generation. This must be executed while rigorously upholding a strong, distinctive brand voice and visual identity.

  • Lead team with using Ai

  • Direct the development of channel‑specific creative (Meta, TikTok, YouTube, display, CRM, landing pages, etc.), ensuring best‑practice use of each platform’s formats and content types.

  • Champion and evolve the in‑house design system, ensuring coherence across assets while enabling modularity and rapid testing for performance creatives.

  • Provide clear creative direction and feedback to Art Directors, copywriters, designers, and motion specialists, raising the bar for craft, storytelling, and performance thinking.

  • Lead and facilitate brainstorms and concept sprints that generate breakthrough ideas, ensuring a balance of big brand platforms and highly testable performance concepts.

  • Maintain close alignment with brand, product, and marketing stakeholders so that growth creatives reinforce broader brand positioning while hitting acquisition and revenue goals.

  • Foster a culture of learning, experimentation, and knowledge‑sharing, codifying best practices and building playbooks for high‑performing creatives.

  • Add another point to strengthen the importance of leading and maintaining team culture, which is the core spirit of my team. Add it to responsibilities and requirements

  • Here’s an updated version with culture leadership emphasized in both sections.

  • Requirements:

  • 8–10+ years of experience in creative roles within digital/creative agencies and/or high‑growth in‑house teams, including significant time in performance‑oriented environments.

  • Proven track record of leading creative that drives measurable growth (e.g., improvements in CTR, CVR, CPA, ROAS, or retention) across social and digital channels.

  • Strong understanding of performance marketing principles, experimentation methodologies, and key growth metrics; comfortable making creative decisions informed by data.

  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools (e.g., generative image/video, copy, workflows) to optimize creative workflows and produce channel‑specific variations at scale.

  • Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills, with experience managing and mentoring multidisciplinary creative teams.

  • Demonstrated ability to build and sustain a healthy, inclusive, and high‑performing team culture, fostering open feedback, continuous learning, and shared ownership of results.

  • Deep knowledge of social and digital platforms, their ad formats, and creative best practices, especially for direct‑response and lower‑funnel campaigns.

  • Strong portfolio showcasing full‑funnel campaign thinking, performance‑driven creative, and high craft across static, video, and motion formats.

  • High determination to build first‑class creative materials that meet both brand and performance standards.

  • Knowledge of crypto and financial products is preferable and will be an advantage when crafting relevant, high‑impact creatives for our audiences.

  • A super fast learner with a strong “get things done” attitude, comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, experiment‑driven environment.

  • Excellent command of spoken and written English, with the ability to articulate creative rationale clearly to both creative and non‑creative stakeholders.

  • Humble and collaborative mindset: embraces better ideas from others, is eager to improve work, and remains open to challenges and new possibilities.

  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and generative AI tools, with a strong interest in exploring new technologies to enhance creative workflows.