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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Brand Designer

Inngest · US/Remote

Inngest is a developer-focused platform that helps engineers build reliable workflows with ease. We’re looking for a Brand Designer to join our team and execute on a brand that developers love. If you’re proactive, creative, and excited to collaborate with a team building the best developer experience (DX), this role is for you.

The Role

You'll bring Inngest's brand to life across marketing, sales, and community channels by executing on a wide range of deliverables. You'll work closely with our Head of Design, marketing, Devrel, and sales to turn briefs into polished work that's on-brand, on-time, and built for a developer audience.

You'll join a small, passionate team of designers, engineers, and marketers who care deeply about building products with best-in-class developer experience. This is a high-variety role where no two weeks look the same.

  • This is a US-based remote role. We're remote first, with a few folks working together in-person in SF.

What You’ll Do

  • Digital: Ad creative, landing pages, social graphics, email templates, blog visuals, sales decks, long-form reports and guides. Anything that lives on a screen and needs to look like Inngest. You'll build templates and systems that let us ship fast without things getting sloppy.

  • Physical: Swag that developers actually keep. Tees, stickers, hats, and weirder stuff for launches and milestones. You'll work with vendors, understand production constraints, and know what happens when a design that looked perfect in Figma meets a screen printer.

  • Experiential: Booth graphics, signage, banners, badges, conference materials, and whatever else we need to show up well at events. When bigger opportunities come along (think out-of-home, pop-ups, environmental stuff), you'll be the one making them look great.

  • Brand consistency across all of it You'll have opinions about where the system could grow, and we want to hear them, but your core job is executing within our guidelines and making sure everything feels unmistakably like Inngest regardles

What You Need to Succeed

  • 3-5 years of brand design experience. Fluent in Figma, comfortable in Illustrator and InDesign, and able to adapt a brand system across formats that have nothing in common with each other.

  • Print and production management skills. You understand bleeds, dielines, CMYK, and what happens when a design meets a screen printer

  • Developer empathy. You don't need to code, but you need to care about understanding our audience and be willing to ask a lot of questions.

  • Speed and range. You can bounce between projects without losing quality or losing your mind.

  • Communication skills. You can explain your design decisions, take feedback without taking it personally, and collaborate effectively over Slack and Zoom. We're remote, so writing clearly matters a lot.

Bonus Points

  • Programmatic & ABM experience. You've designed for account-based marketing programs. Personalized landing pages, targeted ad variations, 1:1 direct mail. You know how to keep quality high across dozens of variations.

  • AI-augmented workflows. You're already using tools like Cursor, Claude, or Midjourney to move faster and do more ambitious work than you could alone. Not replacing craft with prompts, but extending it.

  • Motion and animation. After Effects, Lottie, CSS animations. Subtle movement that makes things feel alive.

What Your First 90 Days Will Look Like

  • Week 1. Get to know our team and how we work. You’ll dive into our brand guidelines, explore existing design assets, and learn about our developer audience. Expect lots of “hello’s” on Slack and a friendly onboarding to our design files.

  • By Day 30. You’ll be fully integrated into our weekly workflow. You might have already designed a few blog post graphics or ad creative. You’ll understand our product, our users (developers!), and our marketing strategy deeply enough to start executing effiently on ideas.

  • By Day 90. You've delivered on something big. Maybe it's a full campaign's worth of creative, a suite of conference materials, or a polished report series. Your work is live and developers are seeing it.

Why Inngest?

  • Developer-Focused Mission: Everything we do is for developers. As a Brand Designer, you’ll help make complex, technical concepts feel approachable and exciting. Your work will attract and inspire the developers who use our platform.

  • Small & Impactful Team: You’ll be joining a tight-knit team of ~20 people. No red tape, no layers of bureaucracy — just a group of passionate people building something big together.

  • Growth & Learning: As an early design hire, you’ll have a broad scope and the chance to wear many hats. Interested in UX or product design? You’ll get exposure to that too, working alongside our product designer and engineers.

  • Competitive Benefits: We offer competitive salary, equity, health/dental/vision (US), 4 weeks vacation (plus local holidays), a new MacBook Pro, and more. We believe in taking care of our team.

How to Apply

If you’re excited to design for a brand that developers love, we’d love to hear from you! Apply with:

  • Your resume.

  • A brief blur on your favorite design achievement

  • Portfolio or examples of your design work (especially branding or marketing design).

  • Your location/time zone (so we know how you’ll overlap with ET).

We can’t wait to see your creativity and welcome you to the team! Let’s build a brand that developers around the world adore 🎨✨.