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 UK/I

Realtimeboardglobal · Amsterdam, NL; London, UK

About the Team

Our Enterprise Account Management is a critical component of our UK/I go-to-market strategy. It presents an outstanding opportunity to work on sales cycles with a customer base representing a broad range of fields and industries.

As part of Miro’s enterprise sales team, you will have the opportunity to develop, strategize, and close business with new and existing customers up to 15,000 employees in the UK/I market in collaboration with our Customer Success and Solution Engineering team. As a rapidly growing organization, opportunities for internal growth and career development are plentiful! 

About the Role

As an Enterprise Account Executive you will focus on on landing new business and expanding our largest UK region accounts by focusing on net new lines of business. You will join a highly motivated, energetic sales team that takes pride in growing deep customer relationships, running strategic sales cycles and delivering the Miro value proposition to a diverse base of accounts across various industries.
 
We are looking for an ambitious and organized professional who will drive expansion in our accounts by creating net new progress in our install base today. You will be skilled at using research to gain insight into customer challenges, identifying key stakeholders, calling high and challenging customers' thinking about how Miro can act as a pillar for the way work gets done.

Our goal is to create great customer experiences by being Miro product experts and consulting with customers to identify the needs and pain points.

What you’ll do

  • Combine the interests of multiple client stakeholders to drive account revenue growth
  • Strategic account planning to motivate and lead company resources in appropriate expansion strategies
  • Break into new personas and lines of business to drive incremental use cases 
  • Be a key component in ensuring we have accurate data in our CRM to drive the strategy for our future growth
  • Achieve monthly/quarterly quotas of pipeline and closed business 

What you’ll need

  • 4+ years of quota carrying sales experience within the UK enterprise market, including experience with SaaS
  • Strong account expansion skills (new business, strategic territory & account planning, cross functional team-selling)
  • Proven track record of exceeding sales quotas
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • You have the ability to build rapport and relationships with senior clients
  • You have a great attitude that can maneuver through ambiguity and ability to work and collaborative with a growing team
  • You are a results-oriented individual who is excited by the prospect of fueling the continued growth and success of Miro by growing our sales pipeline.
  • You have a “can do” attitude and are relentless in pursuing goals and solving problems

What's in it for you

We want you to feel supported, connected, and ready to grow. Our global benefits package generally includes equity, a wellbeing benefit, a WFH equipment allowance, and an annual Learning & Development stipend. Join a diverse team where you can do your best work. Full benefits may differ per location. If you would like to learn more about location-specific benefits, please refer to our Global Miro benefits board.

About Miro

Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 100M users and 250,000 companies collaborate in the Innovation Workspace. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 13 hubs around the world.

We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

Check out more about life at Miro: 

At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.

Miro handles and uses personal data of job applicants in line with its Recruitment Privacy Policy found here. 

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