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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Enterprise Account Executive (East)

Infisical · United States

Infisical is looking to hire exceptional talent to join our teams in building the open source security infrastructure stack for the AI era.

We're building a generational company with a world-class team. This isn’t a place to coast — but if you want to grow fast, take ownership, and solve tough problems, you’ll be challenged like nowhere else.

Infisical helps developers and organizations securely manage over 1.5 Billion secrets each month including application configuration, database credentials, certificates, and more.

Our customers range from some of the fastest-growing startups to largest public enterprises (e.g., Hugging Face, LG, Lucid). We have a clear buyer persona and a large target market. We are well funded and backed by great investors, including Y Combinator, Elad Gil and Google.

As an Enterprise Account Executive, you’ll be responsible for growing the customer base and closing net-new logos for Infisical’s secrets management platform. We are building the #1 open-source security infrastructure stack, and you will play a defining role in growing it!

About this Role

You will be working closely with our CEO and the rest of the team on:

  • Understanding and demonstrating our products to prospects.

  • Developing, managing, and closing business within accounts in our enterprise accounts segment.

  • Driving the sales cycle from prospect to close and ensuring adoption and consumption of our products.

  • Collaborating with the engineering team to define customer requirements and communicate timelines.

  • Identifying current customers with upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

  • Using innovative sales tools to map, prospect, follow and close your accounts.

Overall, you’re going to be one of the defining pieces of our team as we scale to thousands of customers over the next 18 months.

About You

This job will require you to have the following pivotal skills:

  • Experience selling software to a technical audience (bonus: knowledge and experience with open source, security, and/or infrastructure sales)

  • Demonstrated experience in scaling sales operations from the ground up, including setting up sales processes, CRM systems, and building a sales team.

  • Credibility, and ability to craft compelling cases for change.

  • Experience in navigating multi-stakeholder sales (e.g., IC engineer, director, executive leadership).

  • Based in the East Coast Time Zone (US)

How You Will Grow

With this role, you play the defining role in:

  • Scaling Infisical to 1,000s of customers over the next 18 months.

  • Having an opportunity to work with a wide range of companies – from modern AI startups to Fortune 10 companies.

  • Defining Infisical’s sales strategy for various geographies, industries, and customer segments.

  • Directly participating in setting Infisical’s product roadmap by gathering customer feedback and insights.

Team, Values & Benefits

Our team brings experience from companies like Figma, AWS, and Red Hat. We operate primarily as a remote team but maintain a strong presence in San Francisco, where we have an office. We also get together in person throughout the year for off-sites, conferences, and team gatherings.

At Infisical, we’re proud to offer:

  • Competitive compensation, including both salary and equity options

  • Unlimited paid time off

  • Free lunch stipend

  • Offsites + team gatherings (last offsite's in Tokyo and Bali)

  • Health, Dental, & Vision plans

  • Generous equipment, software, & work setup stipend

About Us

Infisical is the open source security infrastructure platform that engineers use for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management. We help developers and organizations securely manage over 1.5 billion secrets each month including application configuration, database credentials, certificates, and more.

We’ve raised $19M from Y Combinator, Google, and Elad Gil, and our customers include Hugging Face, Lucid, and LG.

Join us on a mission to make security easier for all developers — starting with secrets management.