A coverage check reads one posting and shows how much of what its screen weighs is already on your resume, term by term, with the gaps named. Then you personalize, and we run it again. The score climbs, not because anything was invented, but because your real, matching experience now shows up in the words the posting uses. Before and after, side by side, is the honest version of “ATS optimization”: a number you can watch move, built only from experience you already have.
We extract the specific terms a posting's screening setup is likely to weigh, from the posting's own text, and check each one against your current resume. The result is a coverage score with matched and missing terms shown side by side, each missing one carrying the points it would add.
The anti-fabrication writer surfaces the experience you already have that speaks to the missing terms, re-emphasizing real bullets rather than inventing new ones. A gap it cannot honestly fill stays named as a gap.
We run the same check on the tuned resume. Coverage rises as your real matching experience becomes legible in the posting's own vocabulary, shown as a plain before/after, for example 61% to 89%, with the exact terms that moved from missing to covered.
Every point of the climb traces to experience already in your resume.
Coverage is our own read on how much of a posting's language your resume covers, built from the posting's own text. It measures whether the screen can find your relevant experience, not what the employer will decide: a higher score means you get read, not that an interview is coming. We do not look inside any employer's system, and we will never tell you a coverage number equals a callback. The climb is real and honest; what it buys you is being read, and that is the part we can stand behind.
It is a comparison between one job posting and your resume. Meridino extracts the specific terms that posting's screening setup is likely to weigh, from the posting's own text, and shows which are already on your resume and which are missing, each missing term with the points it would add. It is a read on how legible your relevant experience is to that posting's screen, not a prediction of whether you will be interviewed.
No, and we will not imply it. Coverage measures how much of a posting's stated language your resume covers; it is about being read, not about the employer's decision. A higher score means the screen can find your relevant experience. We show it as a before/after because the movement is honest and checkable, but we never equate a coverage number with a callback.
The climb comes only from real experience you already have, surfaced in the words the posting uses. The anti-fabrication writer re-emphasizes bullets already in your record; it does not add skills or numbers that are not there. A gap it cannot fill from your history stays named as a gap, and your before/after reflects that honestly.
No. Before any coverage check runs, we re-confirm the posting is still live at that moment, not from a cached status. If it has closed, the check does not run and nothing is spent. Postings do linger after roles fill, so this live re-check is what keeps the disagreement about how often that happens from ever costing you.
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