Find out why ATS
filters reject you.
A score out of 100 and a written report across keyword coverage, formatting, section completeness, readability and role fit — each with the specific change that raises it. It comes with every profile build, and twenty of those are free each month.
Scored across five dimensions
ATS Report in short
- What is an ATS score?
- An estimate of how well a resume will survive an applicant tracking system — the software most employers use to filter applications before a person reads them. HyreMe scores yours out of 100 across keyword coverage, formatting, section completeness, readability and role fit.
- What counts as a good ATS score?
- Above 80 generally means nothing structural is working against you. Below 70 usually points at something specific and fixable rather than at your experience — a heading the parser cannot place, or vocabulary that does not match the role.
- Is the ATS check free?
- It is part of the profile credit that built the profile, and every account gets twenty of those a month at no cost, with no card and no trial clock. Iterating is the only thing that reliably raises the number, which is what the monthly allowance is sized for.
- Do I need to paste a job description?
- Not for this. The ATS report scores your resume on its own merits. Scoring yourself against one specific posting is Job Analysis, which runs on a job-cycle credit from a pack.
A number you can act on, not a grade you can only feel bad about
Applicant Tracking Systems filter out a large share of applications before anyone reads them, and they do it on things that have nothing to do with whether you can do the job: a heading they cannot parse, a keyword phrased differently, a section they expected and did not find.
The ATS Report scores your profile out of 100 and then tells you where the points went. Each dimension comes with the specific change that would raise it — not “improve your keywords” but which terms are missing and where they belong.
What gets scored
Each dimension is scored on its own and then combined, so a strong resume with one structural flaw shows you the flaw instead of hiding it in an average.
Keyword coverage
Which terms a role of this kind expects, which of them you already use, and where the missing ones would sit naturally in your own experience.
Format and structure
Headings, ordering and layout choices that confuse a parser — the things that cause a whole section to be dropped without warning.
Section completeness
Whether every expected section is present, labelled the way systems look for, and detailed enough to score at all.
Readability
Bullet length, verb strength and density — the difference between a line a recruiter takes in at a glance and one they skip.
Role fit
How your experience and seniority line up with the kind of role your profile is aimed at.
The whole report as a PDF
Score, breakdown and every recommendation, exported as a formatted document. Exporting never spends a credit, and it is useful to keep beside your drafts.
Score, fix, score again
A single score tells you very little; watching it move as you change things tells you everything. That is what twenty free profile credits a month are for.
Run the report
Get the score and the written breakdown. The report is shown in full on the tab, never collapsed behind an accordion.
Change something
Edit the profile by hand, or let Score-up apply the recommendations for you and check its own work.
Re-run it
See whether the number moved and which dimension moved it. Keep the changes that helped; revert the ones that did not.
“75% of resumes are rejected by ATS” is not a real statistic
It is on hundreds of resume-tool landing pages, including, until recently, ours. It has no traceable source.
The figure gets cited endlessly, always without a study behind it. Trace it back and you find other marketing pages citing each other. Applicant tracking systems are mostly databases and workflow tools: they rank, tag and filter on recruiter-defined criteria far more than they auto-reject, and the share of applications a human never sees varies enormously by employer, role and volume.
Here is what is defensible, and it is enough. ATS software is used by the large majority of mid-size and enterprise employers. It parses your document before anyone reads it, and a document it parses badly is represented badly in the system — wrong fields, missing sections, keywords it never registered. Recruiters then search and filter against that parsed record. You do not need an invented rejection rate to justify making sure the parse is clean.
ATS Report, answered
What is an ATS score?
An estimate of how well your resume will perform inside an Applicant Tracking System — the software most employers use to filter applications before a human reads them. HyreMe scores yours out of 100 across keyword coverage, formatting, section completeness, readability and role fit, and explains each one.
How is the score calculated?
HyreMe sends your structured profile over its built-in AI connection, guided by a system prompt you can read and edit in the app, and combines the per-dimension results into an overall figure with a written report. Nothing about the method is hidden — open the SysPrompts tab and you can see exactly what is being asked.
Will the same resume always score the same?
Close, but not identical. Language models are not fully deterministic, so the same document can land a point or two apart on two runs. Treat the score as a direction of travel rather than a certified measurement — what matters is whether it moves when you fix something.
Do I need a job description to get a score?
No. The profile ATS report scores your resume on its own merits. If you want your fit against a specific posting, that is Job Analysis, which runs on a job-cycle credit from a pack.
Is a high score a guarantee?
No, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. A high score means a machine is unlikely to reject you on structure or vocabulary. Whether a person then wants to interview you is a separate question that no tool can answer.
Is the ATS report free?
It is included in the profile credit that built the profile, and twenty of those credits are free every month. Exporting the report as a PDF costs nothing on top. If you need more than twenty builds in a month, a pack adds more.
Get your score tonight.
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