There is no single “ATS score.” Greenhouse, Workable, Lever, Ashby, and Workday each read and rank a resume their own way, and they publish how in their own docs. Most job-search advice never reads those pages; it just repeats a generic “beat the bots” myth. We read the vendors' own material and track the exact words each platform says it scores on, then aim your resume at the system behind a given posting, not a one-size-fits-all keyword list.
Different systems, different vocabulary. We line your real experience up with each.
We work from what the platforms publish about themselves. Greenhouse's own docs describe matching resumes against a weighted “calibration” a hiring team defines. Workable describes scoring each applicant against job-specific criteria. Lever describes AI scorecards across named dimensions. We track that language directly, not a secondhand summary of it.
Each platform's language turns into a specific instruction. A weighted calibration means mirror the posting's stated priorities in its stated order. Criteria resolved to met / partially met / not met / unknown means state authorization, location, and certifications plainly, because “unknown” stalls the screen. Named dimensions mean map an accomplishment to each, not one long list of duties.
When the writer tunes your resume, it targets the vocabulary the platform behind that posting says it reads, so the same true experience is framed the way that specific screen is set up to find it.
“Unknown” stalls the screen, so we make sure the facts that resolve it are stated, never invented.
This is a read on how these platforms describe their own screening, not a login into any employer's live system. We cannot see a company's private rubric or weights. It is also not universal: some widely used platforms, BambooHR and Monday.com among them, publish no automated resume scoring at all, and many employers still screen with a person and a scorecard. So we treat this as lining your resume up with the words a platform says it reads, which also reads well to a person, never as “beating” a system we have not seen inside.
An ATS (applicant tracking system) is the software employers use to post jobs, store applications, and rank candidates. Major platforms parse, search, and route resumes, but humans make the reject decisions; no major ATS computes a single resume score and auto-rejects below a threshold as default behaviour. The one true automated reject is the knockout question (for example, “are you authorized to work here?”). The widely repeated “75% of resumes are auto-rejected” figure traces to a defunct vendor's 2012 sales pitch, with no study behind it.
We read the platforms' own published product documentation. Greenhouse's own docs describe matching resumes against a weighted calibration a hiring team defines; Workable describes scoring applicants against job-specific criteria and resolving each to met, partially met, not met, or unknown; Lever describes AI scorecards across named dimensions such as Technical and Communication. We track that vocabulary directly. We do not claim access to any employer's private settings.
No, and that is the point. Greenhouse, Workable, Lever, and Ashby each describe a different screening model in their own documentation, from weighted calibrations to job-specific criteria to named scorecard dimensions. Some platforms, including BambooHR and Monday.com, publish no automated resume scoring at all. Treating every system as one generic “ATS” is exactly the mistake most resume advice makes.
No. For a meaningful share of employers you are read by a person filling out a scorecard, not a model, so “beat the bots” is the wrong frame. The honest, universal move is a resume that is parseable, truthful, and labelled with the competencies a screen (human or software) is looking for. Where a specific platform publishes how it scores, we line your real experience up with that vocabulary too. We never claim to have seen inside a company's private hiring criteria.
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