Scans
Running a scan against a job posting, reading the match report, and what the score is made of.
- Creating a New ScanYou can easily start a new scan directly from the Home Page or the Job Scans history page.
- Scans OverviewJob scans compare your resume with a job description to generate a match score and suggest improvements to optimize your resume for ATS and recruiters.
- Additional Scan FeaturesThese are minor features that can be accessed directly from the scan screen.
- Match ReportThe Match Report evaluates how closely your resume aligns with the job description, using a scoring algorithm that mimics how Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) score resumes.
- How Scoring Works
- ATS Resume ChecksEach scan reviews your resume, but these checks do not impact the overall score of the scan.
- Update Resume & Live Edit
- How a scan worksWhat happens when you scan a resume against a job posting, what comes back, and how long it takes.
- Should I use a Smart Scan or a Classic Scan?Smart Scan builds your resume here in our resume builder. Classic Scan is for when you do not want to use it. Both run the same analysis and cost the same.
- Creating a new scanFill in the job posting, pick a resume, press Create Scan. The scan itself returns in a few seconds.
- Importing a job from a URLPaste a job posting URL and we fill in the title, company, and description for you. Works on over 100 job boards, and there is a fallback when a site blocks us.
- How your match score is calculatedThe match score is 100 points split five ways: hard skills 60, soft skills 15, other keywords 5, job title 10, degree 10. With a worked example.
- Reading your match reportWhat every part of the match report means, including the skills table, the degree match, the job title match, and the skills graph.
- ATS resume checksThe 11 checks a scan runs on your resume, which 3 of them change your match score, and which 4 are Premium.
- Why does it say I'm missing a skill that's already on my resume?The real reasons a skill on your resume shows as missing, in the order they are most likely to be the cause, and the fix for each.
- What match score should I aim for?Aim for 80. What to do at each level below that, and which changes move the number fastest.
- Excluding skills and keywordsExclude a keyword to take it out of scoring entirely. Exclusions are global, they re-scan only the scan you are looking at, and removing one re-scans nothing.
- How many scans do I get?Free accounts get 2 scan credits a week, they roll over, and the balance caps at 10. Premium is unlimited.
- Select and update several jobs at onceMove or delete many scans in one action, including every scan a filter matches.