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 Reliability Engineer III

GitHub · Ontario, Canada

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, Ontario Canada

Overview

GitHub is growing its Customer Success & Support team and we're seeking experienced professionals to elevate our technical customer support efforts.  As a Customer Reliability Engineer III, you will efficiently manage and resolve customer issues and act as a liaison between customers and the engineering team. The ideal candidate will drive transformative customer experiences, ensuring long-term satisfaction and loyalty while fostering innovation and collaboration across teams.

 

This role may require working non-standard working hours, including weekends and holidays on-call as part of a team-wide rotation.


Responsibilities

  • Work with assigned customers via support tickets and/or real-time interaction (phone/screen sharing) to solve technical issues related to their usage of GitHub products often involving Linux servers, source code, and web application issues.
  • Act as a single point of contact for technical issues with ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues independently.
  • Collaborate with the Support and Engineering teams to resolve product issues requiring code changes.
  • Lead incident response for outages affecting assigned customers, followed by delivery of postmortem reports.
  • Act as a single point of contact for specific enterprise customers to provide performance, and best practice advice and assessment related to GitHub and customer's infrastructure.
  • Understand and maintain documentation around the customer infrastructure, workflows, and configuration of GitHub
  • Enterprise Server or GitHub Enterprise Cloud environment.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with other teams at GitHub when additional expertise is needed to resolve customer issues.
  • Manage customer incidents and outages, including joining Zoom/screen share sessions for live triage.
  • Perform incident postmortems, ticket analysis, and system health checks for Premium Support customers as needed.
  • Lead quarterly business reviews for the assigned accounts by presenting metrics, data, and health check summary and recommendations.
  • Organize and lead weekly/bi-weekly touchpoints with assigned accounts to review ongoing Support issues and projects.
  • Work proactively with customers on activities such as coordinating upgrades and ensuring their installation is running smoothly.
  • Set-up and onboard new assigned customers into the program.
  • Provide weekend on-call support as part of the team rotation (8 hour shifts, during normal work hours).
  • Update and maintain various repositories, including team and public documentation, and actively contribute to cross-organization strategy discussions.
  • Ensure that systems and processes comply with security standards and regulations, implementing best practices to protect customer data and maintain system integrity.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years' experience in technical customer support, technical writing, system administration, or related roles,
    • OR bachelor's degree in computer science or related field AND 3+ years' experience in technical customer support, technical writing, system administration, or related roles,
    • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to enhance business processes and drive innovation.
  • Deep knowledge of Git, GitLFS, GitHub Administrator, and GitHub
  • Worked closely with large complex customer accounts in a technical capacity
  • Experience with production-level virtualization platform(s) and/or cloud provider(s) (e.g., VMware ESX, KVM, AWS, Azure)
  • Proficiency with and/or ability to understand and update code and scripts (e.g., Shell, Ruby, Go)
  • Proficiency in common applications in the web application stack (e.g., HAProxy, Nginx, MySQL, and Unicorn)

GitHub values

  • Customer-obsessed
  • Ship to learn
  • Growth mindset
  • Own the outcome
  • Better together
  • Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

  • Model
  • Coach
  • Care

Leadership principles

  • Create clarity
  • Generate energy
  • Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!