ATS resume checker

Resumes often fail automated screening because of invisible formatting issues or missing keywords, even when the candidate is qualified. This skill identifies exactly why a resume might be rejected by an Applicant Tracking System (ATS). It performs a technical audit of your document against a specific job description to find keyword gaps, formatting traps, and unsupported claims.

What it does

• ATS Scoring provides an estimated score across five weighted categories including keyword match and role alignment.
• Skill Gap Analysis separates missing requirements into skills you actually possess versus true experience gaps.
• Formatting Audit flags technical blockers like tables, columns, text boxes, and images that break parsing.
• Fact Verification checks claims against provided source material to ensure numbers and dates are consistent.
• Actionable Fixes generates a prioritized list of specific changes to improve screening performance.

How it works

1. Provide your resume and the target job description as text or files.
2. The agent analyzes the job requirements, weighting skills and identifying key phrases.
3. It audits your resume for formatting errors and missing keywords found in the job description.
4. You receive a structured report with an estimated score and a list of top fixes to apply.

Frameworks & tools

This skill uses specialized analysis rubrics for JD weighting and resume formatting. It integrates with the ResumeForge MCP server if available for automated scoring and grounding error detection.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

Generic prompts often hallucinate skills or provide vague advice. This skill follows a strict weighted rubric and cross-references your actual source material to ensure you never add fake experience that would fail a background check.

Use cases

• Auditing a resume for a high-volume corporate role to ensure it passes initial filters.
• Identifying which specific keywords to add to a "Skills" section for a new industry.
• Checking if a multi-column design is safe for modern parsing software.
• Validating that resume bullet points match the metrics found in LinkedIn exports.

Known limitations

This provides a keyword-based estimate only and is not an official vendor score. It requires a specific job description to provide meaningful analysis.