ATS compatibility
Whether text extracts cleanly and in order, whether layout gets in the way, and whether sections, dates and contact details are recognisable.
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Resume intelligence for job seekers and hiring teams
Know how your resume reads before you apply.
ATSCheck checks common ATS compatibility factors and compares your resume with the job description. See where your resume matches the role, where evidence is missing, and what to improve first.
- Consistent, explainable scores
- Private by default
- Data stored in the EU
Free plan: a job match score against a pasted job description, 2 checks a day · PDF, DOCX or pasted text
Resume check
Sample Resume × Senior Backend Engineer
Overall score 54 out of 100, Needs improvement
Needs improvement
ATS compatibility61
Job match51
- Contact details in the body textNeeds attention: Only in the page header
- Required · REST API developmentNo evidence found
- Dates in one consistent formatNeeds attention: Three date formats
- Required · PostgreSQL in productionPassed: Quoted from Experience
How It Works
Three steps to a clearer application.
Step 1: Add your resume
Upload a PDF or DOCX, or paste the text. It is read on ATSCheck's servers and kept private.
Step 2: Add the job description
ATSCheck separates it into individual requirements, each marked required or preferred.
Step 3: Review evidence and fixes
See what the resume proves, what is missing, and which improvements matter most.
Reading the resume
- Passed: Contact details found in the body text
- Passed: Section headings recognised
- Passed: Required · REST API development — evidence quoted
- Passed: Required · PostgreSQL in production — evidence quoted
- Needs attention: Dates use more than one format
Inside ATSCheck
One product for your job search and your hiring team.
Your career home and the applications you approve, the report behind them, and the Hiring overview, candidate brief and analytics your team works in. Every screen shows synthetic data.
Home
Hello, Sample
Your resume, your applications and what to do next.
Resume Health
Good · ready to tailor for a job
What makes up this result
- Text extractionReads cleanly
- SectionsAll standard sections found
- Contact detailsComplete
- Content clarity3 bullets without a result
Applications · last 30 days
- Started
- 3
- Applied
- 2
- Employer responses
- 1
- Interviews
- 0
Early days: too few applications to read a response rate. Insights count only what you record.
- Backend Engineer · Example Co.Recorded by youApplied
- Platform Engineer · Sample Ltd.Approved, not submittedReady to apply
- API Developer · Demo LabsReview the materials nextPreparing
You apply on each employer's own site. ATSCheck records what you tell it; it never submits for you.
Applications / Review application
Backend Engineer
Example Co. · Dublin
ATSCheck has prepared these materials for you to check. It has not submitted anything, and it never submits on your behalf.
- Review and approve the materials
- Submit on the employer's site yourself
- Record it as Applied in ATSCheck
The exact materials
- Job descriptionSaved 2 OctIncluded
- Job-match analysisChecked against this job, 2 OctIncluded
- ResumeMaster resume · version 3Included
- Cover letterOptionalDraft from this resume and jobIncluded
- Screening answersOptionalNot added. Add them only if the employer asks.Not added
Facts come from your saved resume and the profile details you confirmed. Legal answers such as work authorisation are never guessed.
Your approval
I have read these exact materials and they are accurate.
After you approve
Opens the employer's own site. You submit there yourself, then record it as Applied.
Analyses / Senior Backend Engineer
Sample Resume × Senior Backend Engineer
Synthetic example data
Overall score86Overall
Strong
5 of 6 required requirements evidenced
ATS compatibility90
Job match84
Evidence quality78
Requirement Evidence
REST API development · Required
Strong evidence“Designed HTTP services consumed by web and mobile applications.”Experience · Backend Engineer
PostgreSQL in production · Required
Strong evidence“Maintained PostgreSQL schemas and tuned slow queries for the orders service.”Experience · Backend Engineer
Mentoring other engineers · Preferred
Partial evidence“Onboarded two new engineers to the payments codebase.”Experience · Backend Engineer
Kubernetes · Preferred
No evidence foundNo evidence found in the supplied resume.
Fix First
- Move contact details out of the page headerHigh
- Use one date format throughoutMedium
- Name the API style, if you know itOptional
Sample Hiring Team
Overview
Hiring health
- Confirm requirements: Data AnalystReview
- 2 new candidates to reviewOpen
- 1 candidate with incomplete scorecardsOpen
- 1 task past dueOpen
Hiring health counts waiting work. It never scores or ranks candidates.
This workspace
- Open roles
- 3 · 1 waiting for confirmed requirements
- Candidates
- 14 active · 5 in review · 3 at interview
- Interviews
- 2 scheduled this week · 1 with no agreed time
- Tasks
- 4 open · 1 past due
Next interview
Technical interview · Candidate ATue 6 Oct, 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) · 1 of 2 scorecards submitted
Stages change only when someone on your team changes them.
Candidate brief
Prepare for an interview from the evidence already recorded.
Synthetic example data
Candidate A · Senior Backend Engineer · Stage: Interview, set by your team · Analysed 3 Oct against confirmed requirement version 2
Evidence to review
REST API developmentStrong evidence
ATSCheck analysis Clear evidence for this requirement.
“Designed HTTP services consumed by web and mobile applications.”
Clarify in conversation
Incident response / on-callNo evidence found
Not found in the supplied information. Ask about it in conversation.
AI interpretationAsk how they have handled production issues outside working hours.
Interview readiness
Next: Technical interview, Tue 6 Oct, 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) · 1 of 2 scorecards submitted
ATSCheck organises supplied evidence and AI interpretation. It does not recommend hiring, rejecting, ranking or changing a candidate's stage. A person reviews the source evidence and makes every employment decision.
Analytics · Last 90 days
Analytics
Hiring funnel · reached each stage
- New24 candidates
- Reviewing18 candidates
- Shortlisted9 candidates
- Interview6 candidates
- Offer2 candidates
- Hired1 candidate
Counts of people, not a rating of them. A percentage appears only when there are enough candidates for a reliable rate.
Time between steps
- Added to first review
- Median 2 days · from 18 candidates
- Review to interview
- Median 9 days · from 6 candidates
- Interview to offer
- Too few candidates for a reliable median · 2 candidates so far
Where candidates came from
- Careers page
- 11
- Job board
- 8
- Referral
- 5
Counts only. Too few hires to say which source works best.
See It Work
Resume, job description, evidence.
Choose a requirement to see how ATSCheck reads the resume against it. Every status comes with the words that support it.
Example AnalysisSample Resume × Senior Backend Engineer
Synthetic data — not a real person, job or resultATS compatibility
Strong
86/ 100
Text extracts cleanly; one contact-detail issue.
Job match
Good
71/ 100
2 of 2 required requirements evidenced.
The findings are explained with the evidence below. Values here are illustrative.
Resume
Sample Resume
Backend Engineer · Sample Company · 2021–present
- Designed HTTP services consumed by web and mobile applications.
- Maintained PostgreSQL schemas and tuned slow queries for the orders service.
- Onboarded two new engineers to the payments codebase.
- Took part in weekly release planning with product and QA.
Skills: Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker
Job Requirements
ATSCheck Intelligence
REST API development
Strong evidenceRelated wording — strong evidence
The resume never says “REST API”, but it describes designing HTTP services that other applications consume. That is the substance of the requirement.
Designed HTTP services consumed by web and mobile applications.
Consider: Name the API style and scale if you know them, for example the number of client applications.
What a Check Covers
Two questions, answered separately.
Can the document be read? And does it show the evidence this job asks for? ATSCheck keeps those apart, so a formatting problem is never confused with a missing skill.
Job alignment
How strongly the resume evidences this job: required and preferred requirements, skills and relevant experience, weighed by importance.
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- Requirements
- The job description is separated into individual requirements, each marked required or preferred, so nothing is judged against a vague whole.
- Evidence
- Every requirement shows the lines that support it, quoted verbatim from the resume — or states plainly that no evidence was found.
- Improvements
- Prioritised, specific fixes: what matters most for this role first, what is optional, and why each one matters.
Context, Not Keyword Counting
A requirement can be met in different words.
Counting keywords rewards repetition and misses real experience. ATSCheck reads what the resume describes, then shows you the exact line it relied on.
Keyword Counting
"REST API"
0matches in the resume
A literal search misses experience described in different words, and rewards resumes that repeat the phrase without showing any work.
ATSCheck
Job requirement
REST API development
Designed HTTP services consumed by web and mobile applications.
Strong evidenceRelated wording — strong evidence
The quote is checked against the resume text before it is shown, so the evidence is always something the person actually wrote.
Truthful Resume Improvement
Clearer wording. The same facts.
Rewrite suggestions make a line more specific and easier to read. They never add an employer, a number, a tool or a responsibility you did not describe — and when a result would help, ATSCheck asks you for it.
Suggested rewrite
Synthetic example data- Original
- Helped improve customer response time.
- Suggestion
- Improved customer response workflows and contributed to faster customer responses.
Cover Letters Grounded in Evidence
Written from what you have actually done.
Cover letters draw on the evidence in your resume and the requirements of the role. Generated text is checked for claims your resume does not support before you see it.
Cover letter draft
Synthetic example dataIn my current role I designed HTTP services used by both our web and mobile applications1, and I looked after the PostgreSQL schemas and query performance behind our orders service2. That work is close to what your team describes for this role, and I would welcome the chance to talk about it.
Grounded in the Resume
- 1“Designed HTTP services consumed by web and mobile applications.”
- 2“Maintained PostgreSQL schemas and tuned slow queries for the orders service.”
ATSCheck HR
Candidate intelligence your team can check.
Turn resumes into structured, evidence-based candidate intelligence. Compare candidates against the same confirmed requirements, with the quotes behind every status.
- Confirmed requirements
- Review and confirm what the job needs before candidates are analysed.
- Coverage with quotes
- Each requirement shows the resume evidence, or that none was found.
- Comparison on equal terms
- Candidates side by side against the same criteria. No winner is declared.
- Interview questions
- Targeted questions where evidence is partial or missing.
- Pipeline and notes
- Lightweight stages, notes and comments. Only people move a candidate.
Jobs / Platform Engineer / Compare
Compare candidates
5 confirmed requirementsSame criteria for every candidate
RequirementCandidate ACandidate BCandidate C
REST API developmentRequiredStrongPartialStrong
PostgreSQL in productionRequiredStrongStrongPartial
Event-driven systemsRequiredPartialNot foundStrong
Incident response / on-callPreferredNot foundStrongPartial
Mentoring other engineersPreferredPartialNot foundStrong
No ranking and no recommendation. Every status opens the quoted evidence; people review it and decide.
ATSCheck never makes hiring decisions, never rejects anyone automatically, ignores protected characteristics and does not score personality or culture fit.
Privacy and Security
A resume is personal. We treat it that way.
- Where it lives
- Stored in the EU (Ireland). Files are kept private and never published.
- Who can see it
- Resumes are private by default. Every account and HR workspace is kept separate.
- AI training
- ATSCheck does not use resumes, job descriptions, candidate data or generated output to train AI models.
- Purpose-limited
- Only the information needed for the feature you asked for is processed.
- Deletion
- Delete resumes, analyses, candidates or your whole account. Free results are removed after 30 days.
Plans
Start free. Add help when you need it.
Free to check a resume, Pro for your own job search, Curated if you would rather our team did the work, and Hiring or Hiring Team for recruiters and hiring teams.
Free accounts are open now. Paid plans are not available to buy yet, and nothing is charged.
Free
Anyone checking a resume against a job
€0No card needed
- A job match score: how well your resume matches a job
- Paste the job description with each check
- Scores kept for 30 days
- A fictional, interactive preview of Pro
Allowance · per day
- 2 job match checks
Match score only. Requirement-by-requirement evidence, issues, recommendations, rewrites, cover letters and saved jobs are not included.
- Checks reset at midnight UTC.
Pro
Your own job search
€19.99per month
- Requirements matched even when your resume uses different words
- Evidence quoted from your resume for every requirement
- Detailed, prioritised recommendations
- Rewrites and cover letters that keep to your facts
Allowance · in any rolling 30 days
- 10 full resume analyses
- 20 rewrite suggestions
- 3 grounded cover letters
- Daily ceiling: 4 analyses, 10 rewrite suggestions and 2 cover letters per UTC day, within the 30-day allowance.
Not available to buy yet.
Curated
Done for you by the ATSCheck team
€299per month
- Our team curates and optimises your CV
- Cover letters drafted for the roles you target
- Applications to roles on your behalf, only with your approval and the facts you supply
- Interview preparation
Allowance · a month
- Up to 5 role or job-support requests
A service, not the Pro tool: Pro self-service features are not included. We work only from the experience you share with us, and no service can promise interviews or offers.
- Each request covers one target role or job you want help with.
Not available to buy yet.
Questions
Frequently asked
Something else? Visit support.
It is ATSCheck’s guidance on how clearly a resume may be read and how well it supports the requirements in a job description. The report explains the result with findings and evidence so you can decide what to improve. It is not a prediction from, or affiliation with, any employer’s applicant tracking system.
No tool can promise that. Employers use many different applicant tracking systems, configured in different ways, and ATSCheck is not affiliated with any of them. ATSCheck is an independent analysis of common compatibility factors, so treat the result as guidance rather than a prediction of how a particular employer’s system will behave.
Resumes are private by default. On the Free plan, results are kept for 30 days. On paid plans, saved resumes, jobs and analyses stay until you delete them or your account. Files are stored privately in the EU (Ireland), behind access controls. You can delete them at any time.
No. ATSCheck does not use your resume, job descriptions, candidate data or generated output to train AI models. Only the text needed for the specific analysis is processed.
ATSCheck suggests targeted rewrites for specific lines, rather than generating a new resume. Suggestions preserve your facts: they can make wording clearer or more specific, but they do not add employers, dates, tools, numbers or responsibilities you have not described. Where a measurable result would help, ATSCheck asks you to add one if you know it.
No. Hiring decisions depend on many things ATSCheck cannot see or influence. ATSCheck helps you understand how your resume reads and where the evidence for a role is strong or missing, so you can decide what to improve.
You can open a free account now, with 2 job match checks per day. Paid plans are not available to buy yet, and nothing is charged.
Pro will be €19.99 a month, with 10 full resume analyses, 20 rewrite suggestions and 3 grounded cover letters in any rolling 30 days. It matches requirements even when your resume says them in different words, quotes the evidence from your resume for each one, and adds detailed recommendations, rewrites and cover letters that keep to your facts, a saved library, history and comparison.
Curated will be €299 a month; it is not available to buy yet. It is a done-for-you service rather than a bigger version of the tool, with up to 5 role or job-support requests a month: the ATSCheck team curates and optimises your CV, drafts cover letters, applies to roles on your behalf only with your approval and the facts you supply, optimises your LinkedIn profile when you ask, and helps you prepare for interviews. Pro self-service features are not included. Like any service, we cannot promise interviews or job offers.
Hiring will be €29.99 per month, 1 seat, with 25 candidate analyses, 5 comparison summaries, 5 interview-question sets and 5 AI-assisted requirement drafts in any rolling 30 days. It is a workspace for one recruiter or hiring manager: job requirements you confirm, requirement coverage with quotes from each resume, side-by-side comparison against the same criteria, targeted interview questions, a pipeline that only people move, notes, reports and exports.
Hiring Team will be €99 per month, 5 seats including the owner; it is not available to buy yet. It is a separate plan from Hiring, with a fixed team size and one shared workspace. The workspace shares 80 candidate analyses, 10 comparison summaries, 15 interview-question sets and 10 AI-assisted requirement drafts in any rolling 30 days, and adds roles and permissions, candidate assignments, team comments and an activity history to everything in the Hiring workspace. Invited members get workspace access only; their own job search stays on their own plan.
No. ATSCheck never makes hiring decisions, never automatically rejects or moves a candidate, and does not rank people by personality or culture fit. It ignores protected characteristics. It shows the evidence for each requirement so that people can review it and decide.
Yes. HR workspaces can delete individual candidates, their files and analyses, and whole jobs. Organisations can also set how long candidate data is kept.
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