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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Global Medical Project Lead

Ipsen · Paris

Title:

Global Medical Project Lead

Company:

Ipsen Pharma (SAS)


 

About Ipsen:

Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation.

 Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries. We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excellence and impact. At Ipsen, every individual is empowered to be their true selves, grow and thrive alongside the company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!

For more information, visit us at https://www.ipsen.com/ and follow our latest news on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Job Description:

Are you ready to lead and innovate in a dynamic, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company?

Ipsen is a growing global specialty-driven biopharmaceutical company focused on innovation and specialty care. We aim to make a sustainable difference by significantly improving patients’ health and quality of life, providing effective therapeutic solutions for unmet medical needs through differentiated and innovative medicines in Oncology, Neurosciences, and Rare Diseases.

Why Ipsen?

Patient-Focused: The patient is at the heart of everything we do, and improving their outcomes is the deliverable of every strategy.

Employee Care: We care for our employees, who are the ambassadors making a real difference.

Bold Leadership: We attract and develop bold, agile, entrepreneurial individuals who take full ownership of their decisions.

Growth Opportunities: We offer a wealth of fulfilling challenges and growth opportunities in a fast-moving, game-changing organization.

About the Role:

The Global Medical Project Lead is responsible for high quality support of project set-up, implementation and coordination of existing and new projects sitting under responsibility of the global medical organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Project lead

  • Develop project plans based on the business needs, including project milestones. Monitor the project execution ensuring delivery in the agreed timeline and quality.
  • Implement project management methodology and promotes best practices
  • Work in a structured manner to identify project stakeholders, key milestones and ensures delivery within the timeframe for each of the tasks and for the overall project.
  • Participate in the project designing and planning of all operational activities related to the project, leads the set-up of the project plan
  • Maintain project scope, timelines, and budget
  • Identify project risks and issues linked to project delivery and develops mitigation strategies to minimise impact, escalating when necessary
  • Develop metrics and tracks KPIs and KIIs where appropriate for projects.
  • Involve all stakeholders to maximise the impact of projects, including Medical functions as well as cross-functional teams.

Coordination of business activities

  • Responsible for coordinating all business activities related to the project
  • Responsible on all aspects around meeting organization and execution related to the project in scope
  • Responsible for clear communication and/or training to the relevant stakeholders

Contract management

  • Where support needed, coordination around contracts and budgetary aspects

Coordination new asset integration

  • Develop the Integration project plan in collaboration with the medical workstream lead
  • Monitor the execution of the plan and identify action plans with functional leads
  • Communicate when delays to execution occur

Transversal activities coordination:

  • Meeting management for each project under the scope (agenda, speaker coordination, minutes, follow-up actions)
  • Be the Medical Sharepoint technical expert
  • Contribute to MLT important presentation design, improvement
  • Establish and maintain a strong partnership with Medical Affairs colleagues and cross-functional partners at local and global level
  • In close alliance with the Chief of Staff to the CMO coordinate global medical transformation projects and communicate deviations/discrepancies to the Medical Transformation Lead, and proactively offer solutions to help progress on specific deliverables.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required ideally in Life Sciences; advanced degree preferred
  • Certification in Project Management
  • Strong project management experience
  • Previous experience in pharmaceutical industry is preferred, experience in medical affairs is a plus
  • Experience with budget and forecasting management
  • Proficient with PowerPoint, Excel, and Microsoft and any modern IT and office software
  • Multi-task performance in a fast-paced environment is required
  • Regular work travelling
  • Fluency in English

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