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

Polyai · New York City

PolyAI automates customer service through lifelike voice assistants that let customers lead a conversation. Our voice assistants make it possible for businesses to deliver outstanding customer service that rivals their human agents. Our customers, which include the world’s leading logos, are expanding how they use our platform, driving automation of critical customer service operations and integrating PolyAI into their daily customer service workflows. 

PolyAI is searching for an Enterprise Account Executive to lead and grow our customer relationships with leading hospitality brands, financial institutions, and select Fortune 1000 companies with high volume call center requirements. We want you to bring your great experiences and skills to develop new customers and build executive-level relationships, define the account strategy, deliver solution-based sales and drive sales and revenue growth.


You will work with leading brands in hospitality, leading financial institutions, and a carefully curated set of large enterprise companies with mission critical call center requirements as a trusted advisor to evangelize a solution for voice call management that will significantly improve their customer’s experience and related business goals. You will contribute to the growth and success of PolyAI by winning new business, collaborating with customers to deliver great solutions, and exceeding our sales and revenue goals.

Responsibilities:

  • Successfully find and engage with customer experience, operations and technology executives at Fortune-class enterprises and rapidly growing medium and large private and public companies
  • Building relationships with key customer teams in business units, operations, technology, finance, and procurement
  • Understanding customer needs, presenting solutions, and crafting innovative approaches to adoption of PolyAI solutions
  • Meeting/exceeding goals for new customers, bookings, and sales/revenue.
  • Consistently provide accurate forecasting, customer qualification and account plans, solution requirements and sales pipeline management
  • Work with CRM and other tools to help maintain internal tracking and reporting of sales activity
  • Provide an exceptional customer experience to all prospects and customers
  • Acquire and maintain a high level of subject matter expertise and support a consultative high value customer experience
  • Participate with PolyAI team members and leadership to provide thoughtful and insightful feedback on market conditions, product and solution performance and brand acceptance

Qualifications:

  • Experience selling to enterprise decision makers that include executives, business, and technical leaders. Sales experience with Call Center operations in hospitality brands, insurance and finance and banking is preferred
  • Demonstrated success selling to enterprise-class customers in industries including but not limited to hospitality, travel, insurance, finance and banking
  • Successful results meeting/exceeding sales goals, new customer contracts, revenue expansion, new product adoption.
  • Proven results that consistently meet and exceed annual sales targets and revenue quota
  • Experience selling solutions embracing SaaS, system and performance software and innovative devices. Ability to communicate analytical results a critical success factor for this role
  • Demonstrated success at developing customer specific proposals and business cases
  • Understanding and clearly communicating the benefits of complex, technical solutions to early adopters and visionaries at executive and team levels. Ability to understand and communicate about Artificial Intelligence (AI) a plus

We provide a competitive salary range for this role - which is $300,000 - $350,000 OTE - depending on level and experience. Please note this range is intended as a guide, not a guarantee. Final compensation will be based on individual qualifications, relevant experience, and the scope of the role.

In addition to salary, this position includes equity in the business, giving you the opportunity to share in the company’s long-term success.


Benefits

💰 Participation in the company’s employee share options plan

🏥 100% of Single Cost (employee) and 70% of Dependent for medical, dental & vision

👪 Life Insurance

◻️ STD and LTD

💰 The opportunity to contribute to the company's 401k plan

🏝 Flexible PTO policy + 11 designated company holidays

📚 Annual learning and development allowance

🏡 We’re all about making WFH work for you - that’s why we offer a one-off WFH allowance when you join. Offering perks like noise-cancelling headphones or a comfortable desk chair to boost your comfort and focus!

🧡 Enhanced parental leave

👨‍👩‍👧 Company-funded fertility and family-forming programmes

🌸 Menopause care programme with Maven


At PolyAI, we take great pride in our values - they guide everything we do. We believe that a strong culture leads to meaningful work and lasting impact.

Our core values are:

:only-the-best:
Only the best
We expect the best from our people, we hire people that expect the best from themselves, and we nurture this drive for excellence.

:ownership:
Ownership
We care deeply about what we do. We take ownership of our initiatives, decisions and outcomes.

:relentlessly-improve:
Relentlessly improve
We demand more from ourselves and are always evolving. Continuous, obsessive improvement is the only way we will transform the world of conversational AI.

:bias-for-action:
Bias for action
Our world moves quickly and so do we. We take calculated risks and we deliver impact fast.

:disagree-and-commit:
Disagree and commit
We are all working toward the same goal. If we donʼt agree with something, we work hard to understand it and when a decision is made, we accept it and give it our all.

:build-for-people:
Build for people
We want the world to enjoy the experiences they have with us. We are building for a future that prefers automation.


PolyAI is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at PolyAI will be based on the business needs without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, neurodiversity status or disability status.


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