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

Built by engineers with 12 years of experience building enterprise hiring technology at ZipRecruiter. Last updated .

Account Executive

Voxel51 · United States

First and most importantly: our mission is to bring transparency and clarity to the world's data.

Our platform, FiftyOne, is where AI work happens. Our enterprise platform is the mission critical linchpin for managing unstructured data, model development, and AI systems at the world's largest companies.

We believe that open source is the way to lead the data-centric AI revolution. Our open source version has 4 million downloads to-date.

Our software massively impacts AI work across almost every vertical: from self-driving cars to medical imaging to revolutionizing agriculture, we are at the thrilling center of real-world AI advancement’s next wave.

And we’re built on three key tenets:

  • We are all human beings: we strive to be a “human-first” organization and treat everyone with the respect, care, and flexibility that all people deserve. 
  • We are distributed: we believe in getting autonomy and power into the hands of people actually doing the work.
  • We believe in the power of community.

We are fully remote, hiring for people based in North America and who are prepared to travel to at least 2 in-person retreats per year.

About your role

Joining our growing sales team as an Account Executive, you’ll work with our outstanding go-to-market team to sell FiftyOne Teams, our enterprise tool, to large organizations everywhere. Our best-in-class solution, used to manage visual data, is spreading rapidly throughout the machine learning community, and you’ll help us continue to reach the teams that are responsible for this groundbreaking work. You’ll drive a consultative process with technical stakeholders who are doing incredible things.

What you will do

  • You will drive enterprise sales
    • Work with our marketing and community teams to hone the funnel (leveraging some of our innovative approaches to prospect generation).
    • Engage prospects - ranging from influential ML developers to VPs - in a consultative sales process: understand their technical needs and challenges and how FiftyOne Teams might map on to them.
    • Manage the sales process from first conversation to close.
  • Work closely with our world-class customer success and engineering teams to relay customer needs and pain points.

What you should bring

  • 5+ years of enterprise software sales experience (closing $100K+ ACV).
  • Experience selling software to technical users and stakeholders.
  • High organization & autonomy.
  • Self-motivated with the capacity to work autonomously and in collaboration.
  • Full sales cycle - qualification, proposals writing, contract negotiating, working through and with procurement.
  • Must have direct-to-engineer sales experience.
  • Experience selling machine learning software is +.
  • Experience selling computer vision or visual AI software is ++.

Total annual cash compensation for the role is up to $280K (base + commission). Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. In addition, we offer equity in the form of options, a variety of benefits, and the opportunity to grow in an exciting and collaborative environment.

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