This is the software engineer example resume, scored by our published deterministic scorer against a real senior software engineer posting. No language model is involved and no number here is invented. When you tailor your own resume to a job, the same scorer rates it before and after. The free ATS checker is lighter: it shows which tools and certifications in a posting your resume names.
84/100
Excellent
Against a real senior software engineer posting.
| Category | Scored | Weight | Contributes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keyword match | 70% | 37% | 26 |
| Title and seniority alignment | 82% | 18% | 15 |
| Recent experience | 100% | 18% | 18 |
| Achievement quality | 90% | 9% | 8 |
| Section completeness | 100% | 9% | 9 |
| Bullet quality | 95% | 9% | 8 |
Not scored: Education and certifications.
Scored against the posting, so formatting does not change this number. How each one is measured
This posting named 10 required skills. The resume matched 8 of them.
A missing term here is not a defect in the resume. It is a real gap against this specific posting, the kind every candidate has against every posting they did not write their career around. Adding a skill that is not genuinely true of you would raise this number and lose the interview; the model cannot tell the difference, the interviewer can.
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