Land More Job Interviews with Jobscan's Resume Scanner
Get hired faster with an ATS-friendly resume that highlights the right skills. Our resume scanner helps you write the perfect resume so that you stand out from the competition.
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Optimize Your Resume In Minutes
Optimize Your Resume for the ATS
Many employers use automated systems to screen job applications. Submitting a resume that doesn’t meet applicant tracking system (ATS) requirements can mean getting passed over by hiring managers before they even see your application. Our ATS resume checker analyzes your resume against real job listings and tells you exactly how to optimize your resume to match each company’s ATS.
Highlight the Right Skills
Jobscan’s resume scanner uses AI technology to analyze your resume and compare it to the job listing you want to apply for. You’ll see the specific skills and experience the recruiter and hiring manager will be looking for in candidates and are searching for when they screen out candidates.
Different companies have different needs and requirements for similar jobs. Jobscan helps you make sure your resume highlights the most relevant skills and work experience for each job you apply for.
What our keyword scanner checks
- Hard skills
- Soft skills
- Recommended skills
- Keywords
- Buzzwords
- Industry lingo
What our ATS resume checker scans:
- File type
ATS read certain file types (.doc, .pdf, etc.) differently. Find out if your document file type is ATS-friendly.
- Fonts & font size
Can the ATS read your font? If it can’t, it won’t parse the text correctly and your resume might not show in keyword searches.
- Section headings
ATS parse information by the section headings. Using unconventional section names can cause parsing errors.
- Date formatting
Date formatting helps the ATS correctly calculate your years of experience – a crucial part of many hiring decisions.
- Header and footer
An ATS can’t read every part of a document. We’ll check your formatting to make sure everything is scannable.
- Tables
We’ll make sure that your resume doesn’t contain any formatting that could trip up an ATS.
- Images
ATS can’t parse images. Our scanner will check your content to make sure everything will be parsed correctly.
- Text alignment
Jobscan will check your text alignment to make sure it follows standard practices so that the ATS can read and parse the text correctly.
Get Expert Feedback on Formatting and Best Practices
With Jobscan, you’ll get personalized feedback based on best practices for writing a resume. We built our software using input from real, professional recruiters. That means you get expert and reliable tips and suggestions to help you present your skills and experience in a way that stands out to recruiters and hiring managers.
Get expert insights from recruiters on
- Word count
- Measurable results
- Job level match
- Words to avoid
How to optimize your resume
- Upload your resume
From your Jobscan dashboard, upload your resume file or paste the resume text into the scanner.
- Paste in the text from the job listing
Paste the text of the job listing into the scanner.
- Optimize your resume
The Match Report will give you tailored advice on which skills or experience to mention in your resume plus writing guidelines for writing the perfect resume.
- See your Match Rate increase
Update your resume document, click on the Upload and rescan button, then paste in the updated text of your resume. Your Match Rate will update. Continue this process with your resume until you reach a match rate of 75% or higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
A resume scanner is a tool that analyzes a job seeker’s resume and compares the resume to a job listing to identify the skills the recruiter or hiring manager will be looking for based on the context of the job. It also checks to make sure that the resume is ATS-friendly. Resume scanners help job seekers identify areas of their resume that need improvement and optimize their resumes with better formatting, keyword usage, and content. This can increase their chances of getting noticed by recruiters and get job interviews.
There are three main features that a resume scanner should have:
- Job listing comparison
- ATS-compatibility checks
- Guidance on best practices
There are many resume scanners available, but Jobscan is recognized as the most comprehensive because it includes all of the above features. Our tools also help you optimize your cover letter and LinkedIn profile – meaning you can build the most optimized and effective job search collateral.
Jobscan will check the formatting of your resume to make sure it’s ATS-friendly. These checks include fonts and font size, text color, margins, alignment, images, and more. Our system will tell you how searchable your resume is and if elements like your contact info, education, and dates are readable by an ATS.
Most applicant tracking systems, or ATS, are not available for single users or job seekers. We designed our resume scanner to mimic the most popular ATS on the market so that you can see how an ATS would read your resume and optimize it to be ATS-friendly.
To make your resume ATS-friendly, you should use relevant keywords and phrases from the job description in your resume, keep the formatting simple and clean (avoid using tables, graphics, or special characters), and save your resume in a compatible file format (such as .docx or .pdf).
99% of Fortune 500 companies use what’s called an Applicant Tracking System, or ATS. This software is a tool that collects job applicant information and documents submitted from the job board. The recruiter can use the ATS to filter applicants by skills, education, experience, location, or other criteria.
