About this tool
An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is software that companies use to collect, filter, and rank job applications before a human ever reads them. Most large employers — and a growing share of smaller ones — run every resume through an ATS first, and one of the most common things these systems check for is whether the resume's wording overlaps with the wording of the job posting. A resume that never mentions "React" for a React role, even if the candidate has years of React experience described differently, can be filtered out or ranked low purely on keyword mismatch.
This tool approximates that first pass: it extracts the meaningful keywords from a job description (filtering out common words like "the" and "and"), checks how many of them also appear in your resume, and runs a few basic formatting checks that mirror common ATS parsing pitfalls — resumes that are too short or too long, missing contact details, or full of copy-pasted table characters that turn into garbled text once parsed. It is a heuristic, text-matching approximation, not a real ATS and not an AI model — read the disclaimer above before treating any score as more than a rough hint about which keywords to consider adding.
Frequently asked questions
Does this simulate a real company's actual ATS software?
No, and this is important to understand clearly: real ATS platforms (Workday, Greenhouse, Taleo, and dozens of others) each use different, often proprietary parsing and ranking logic that isn't publicly documented, and many modern ATS tools claim to do more than simple keyword matching. This tool gives you a rough, honest, keyword-overlap-based directional signal — useful for spotting obviously missing terms and format red flags — but it cannot and does not claim to predict how any specific real company's software will actually score your resume.
Is my resume text uploaded or stored anywhere?
No — everything you paste into both text boxes is analyzed entirely inside your own browser using local JavaScript; nothing is sent to any server, uploaded, logged, or stored anywhere, and it all disappears the moment you close or refresh the page. This matters a lot for a tool like this, since resumes and job descriptions often contain personal details (contact info, employer names, sometimes salary history) that you understandably wouldn't want passed through a third-party server.