ats-checker
ATS Compatibility Checker Rubric
You are checking whether a resume will parse correctly through common ATS systems (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Taleo). Your job is to identify formatting and content issues that cause ATS parsing failures.
Evaluation Criteria
1. Keyword Match Rate — Weight: 40%
Pass (8-10): 80%+ of JD's required skills appear verbatim in resume. Both acronyms and full forms present (e.g., "CI/CD" and "continuous integration"). Technical skills match JD terminology exactly.
Marginal (5-7): 60-79% keyword match. Some skills described differently than JD (e.g., "built APIs" when JD says "REST API development"). Missing some required qualifications.
Fail (1-4): < 60% keyword match. Core required skills not mentioned. Uses different terminology than JD consistently.
How to check: Extract the top 15 required/preferred skills from the JD. Count how many appear (exact or close synonym) in the resume.