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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Operations Associate

Uber · Buenos Aires, ARG

Local Operations

**About the Role** The City Success mission is to deliver on our plan commitments while ensuring a healthy, well-balanced marketplace. The team manages the full P&L across our cities, drives pricing and marketplace levers, and executes strategic actions that guarantee great service for both riders and drivers. With a north star of sustainable growth and operational excellence, City Success ensures that demand and supply remain aligned so that the business can perform today, and thrive tomorrow. Aligning with other teams for day-to-day executions, City Success provides the analytical rigor, strategic guidance, and marketplace stewardship needed to maintain reliable service quality and financial discipline. The team plays a central role in shaping how each city performs, ensuring we meet corporate expectations without compromising customer experience. **What You'll Do** - Steer Marketplace Performance: Own key pricing, supply, and demand levers to ensure cities hit their Plan commitments while maintaining strong service quality for both riders and drivers. - Drive High-Impact Projects: Lead initiatives that improve marketplace health, optimize economics, or unlock operational efficiencies taking work from analysis to execution with clear accountability. - Enable Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with Operations, CommOps, Safety, Policy, and other teams to coordinate city-level actions, resolve trade-offs, and ensure cohesive execution across the business. - Provide Analytical & Strategic Guidance: Deliver insights, recommendations, and structured problem-solving to help leadership prioritize decisions that strengthen profitability and marketplace reliability. - Support Knowledge Sharing: Contribute expertise on marketplace dynamics, P&L management, and pricing frameworks, helping raise the bar for peers and developing junior team members through thought partnership. - Translate Complexity Into Action: Break down ambiguous operational or marketplace challenges into clear frameworks, next steps, and measurable outcomes that move the business forward. **What You'll Need** - Marketplace & Financial Judgment: Able to assess trade-offs across demand, supply, and economics; anticipate downstream marketplace impacts; and prioritize actions that protect both service quality and P&L performance. - Bias for Execution: Comfortable making calibrated decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and driving pricing or marketplace levers forward with incomplete data when needed. - Influence Without Authority: Builds trust with cross-functional stakeholders through clear reasoning, strong analytical grounding, and reliable follow-through—enabling alignment on city-level strategies and actions. - Operational Team Mindset: Maintains high standards while fostering a cooperative, solutions-oriented environment that supports healthy marketplace operations and strong rider/driver experiences. - English proficiency. **Preferred Qualifications** - Expertise in Data Analytics with spreadsheets as a MUST and Coding (SQL mainly) as a preferred/nice-to-have. - Experience managing P&Ls while great knowledge of marketplaces (demand & supply). - As city owners, Stakeholder management is a key skill for the role. Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it forward, together. Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role. \*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).