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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Senior Enterprise Sales Representative

Checkout.com · San Francisco

Company Description

We’re Checkout.com – you might not know our name, but companies like eBay, ASOS, Klarna, Uber Eats, and Sony do. That moment when you check out online? We make it happen.

Checkout.com is where the world checks out. Our global network powers billions of transactions every year, making money move without making a fuss. We spent years perfecting a service most people will never notice. Because when digital payments just work, businesses grow, customers stay, and no one stops to think about why.

With 19 offices spanning six continents, we feel at home everywhere – but London is our HQ. Wherever our people work their magic, they’re fast-moving, performance-obsessed, and driven by being better every day. Ideal. Because a role here isn’t just another job; it’s a career-defining opportunity to build the future of fintech.

Job Description

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a significant impact within one of the world's fastest-growing fintechs? At Checkout.com, we pride ourselves on being the invisible layer powering the payment solutions for some of the world's largest brands, such as Klarna, Sony, and eBay.

This Senior Enterprise Sales Representative role is for a driven and strategically minded professional with a passion for winning complex new business. We are rapidly expanding our Go-To-Market (GTM) team in the US, recognizing this market as our #1 priority with the biggest total addressable market. This is a high-growth, high-reward environment where you'll contribute directly to our expansion by working with innovative Enterprise clients across the US landscape. In this role, you'll be empowered to run your own strategies and hypotheses with best-in-class commissions. We seek smart, hardworking individuals who thrive on challenge, embodying tenacity and a strong sense of urgency. Whether you come from tech sales, banking, consulting, or another results-driven field, this is your chance to make a significant impact and grow quickly in a competitive space.

The ideal candidate approaches business development and go-to-market in an analytical and data-driven manner, and is a creative problem-solver. You will be required to think outside the box, to help build deep and meaningful relationships with merchants and to be highly organised.

What You Will Do (Key Responsibilities): As a Senior Enterprise Sales Representative, you will be responsible for end-to-end management of the new logo sales cycle within a territory of Enterprise accounts. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Strategically prospect and plan accounts to identify and target high-probability new logo opportunities, leveraging deep intelligence, networks, and disciplined execution to build pipeline. High-performing reps excel at identifying leads, evaluating their potential, choosing targets, and creating an outbound strategy to reach them.

  • Engage with customers consultatively to build long-term, trust-based relationships, focusing on understanding their challenges and proposing tailored, high-value solutions. You’ll leverage our proven sales methodology, industry, and product knowledge.

  • Deal leadership: Orchestrate and lead deals by coordinating internal resources, building quantitative business cases, delivering impactful presentations, and proactively solving problems to drive opportunities forward.

  • Closing: Lead negotiations, handling objections, creatively addressing concerns and steering complex deals to successful closure.

  • Track and analyze your sales performance, owning results independently, continuously learning industry trends, and leveraging feedback to improve and grow.

Core Competencies & Traits We Value:

  • Entrepreneurial Drive: Possess a persistent, self-starter mentality, operating your territory as an owned business with strong accountability and urgency.

  • Strategic Acumen: Analytical and data-driven. Exhibit high intellectual curiosity, rapidly learning and applying complex strategic insights to account planning and leveraging new technologies like AI for accelerated performance.

  • Learning: Actively seek feedback, demonstrate a growth mindset, and dynamically adjust strategies based on results and evolving information.

  • Confident in stakeholder management, including engagement with C-suite executives.

  • Highly organised and able to prioritise shifting workloads and responsibilities effectively.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Our competitive salaries are just one component of Checkout.com’s total compensation package. Additional benefits include: health, vision, dental insurance, 401k, vacation and sick and safe time, learning days and volunteer days. 

Bring all of you to work 

We create the conditions for high performers to thrive – through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.

Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity – and where your growth is in your hands.

We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.

It’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.
 

Life at Checkout.com

We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.

Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.

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