How does an applicant tracking system (ATS) read your CV?
Upload your PDF or Word file and see what an applicant tracking system reads from it, where it gets stuck, and what to fix. No account, and the file is never stored.
What you get after the scan
- A score out of 100 and how it splits across four categories — the total is the sum of the subtotals.
- Your CV as an ATS sees it: the raw text pulled out of the file, in the order a parser reads it rather than the order you laid out.
- A fix list: which page and which line each finding is on, and how many points it costs.
What this scan leaves behind
- Your IP address: in memory for 2 hours for the scan limit; and as a security record for 12 months — never linked to your score.
- Your score, anonymously — it feeds the distribution shown in results; no file, no text, no identifier.
- A scan counter.
The file itself and the text inside it are in none of them.
What an ATS is, and is not
An ATS (Applicant Tracking System) is the software an employer collects applications in. It turns your CV into text, splits it into fields and makes it searchable by a recruiter.
"ATS software auto-rejects 75% of CVs" is not true. That figure traces back to a 2012 sales brochure; in a 2025 survey around 92% of recruiters said they set no automatic rejection rules at all.
The real risk is not rejection, it is disappearing: if the parser cannot read your experience, your CV never comes back in a search, your dates never sort, your contact field looks empty. That is exactly what this scan measures.
What this tool cannot do
- It does not match you against a job ad. No keyword score — "you are a 64% fit" would be a claim we cannot measure.
- It does not imitate one specific ATS. We cannot know whether Workday or Taleo is behind a posting; what we measure is the readability problem all parsers share.
- It does not judge your content. How well you describe your experience sits outside this score.