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YOUR RESUME
SarahChen_Resume.pdf
SARAH J. CHEN
Senior Product Manager
✉ sarah.chen@email.com☎ +1 (415) 555-0142◎ San Francisco, CAin/sarahjchen
Skills
· Product Strategy
· Roadmapping
· A/B Testing
· SQL
· User Research
· Figma
· Jira
· Mixpanel
· OKRs
· Cross-functional Leadership
· Stakeholder Mgmt
· GTM
Education
UC Berkeley
Haas School of Business
B.S. Business Admin
2013 – 2017
Tools
Figma · Jira · Mixpanel
SQL · Looker · Notion
Summary

Product leader with 8+ years driving 0→1 launches across fintech and SaaS. Shipped products serving 12M+ users at Series B and public-co scale.

Experience
Senior Product Manager
2022 – Present
Northwind Financial
  • Led launch of SMB lending product, $42M originated in first 9 months
  • Reduced underwriting cycle time 38% via automated risk-scoring workflow
  • Managed cross-functional team of 14 across eng, design, risk, and ops
Product Manager
2019 – 2022
Lattice & Co.
  • Owned onboarding and activation; lifted D7 retention from 22% to 41%
  • Shipped self-serve billing flow generating $6.8M ARR in year one
  • Established weekly product review ritual adopted org-wide
WHAT THE ATS READS
7 issues found
> CANDIDATE_NAME: [not detected] > EMAIL: sarah.chen@email.com > PHONE: +1 (415) 555-0142 ---- SECTION: skills ---- Product StrategyRoadmappingA/B TestingSQL User ResearchFigmaJiraMixpanelOKRs Cross-functional LeadershipStakeholderMgmtGTM ---- SECTION: experience ---- Senior Product Manager 2022 – Present Northwind Financial Led launch of SMB lending product Reduced underwriting cycle 38% Managed cross-functional team of 14
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Five engines that handle roughly 85% of large-employer applications.

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The honest part

Your beautiful resume is probably failing you.

Roughly 70–75% of resumes never reach a human reviewer at large employers. Polished, design-heavy resumes often don't survive the parse — and you never find out why. You just stop hearing back.

ATS engines parse design into garbage: names get lost, dates get scrambled, skills disappear, columns get merged.

98%
of Fortune 500 employers use an Applicant Tracking System.
Source: Jobscan F500 Report 2024
75%
of resumes are filtered out by ATS before a recruiter sees them.
Source: CoverSentry ATS Statistics 2024
15–20
point spread between major ATS scoring tools on the same resume — meaning the score itself is noise.
Source: Resumly Cross-Tool Study 2025
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other tools that show you the actual extracted output. Until now.
How it works

Three steps. No invented match-score theater.

01

Drop your resume

PDF or DOCX, up to 4 MB. We don't store the file — it's parsed in memory and never written to disk.

02

We parse it like an ATS does

Same engines and rules used by Workday, Greenhouse, Taleo, and iCIMS. Plain-text extraction, structural analysis, the works.

03

See exactly what broke

Original on the left, raw extracted output on the right, every issue flagged with a one-line fix. Nothing hidden behind a paywall on the first scan.

ATS Verification scan results — parse score 53 out of 100, 7 detected issues including two-column layout and missing candidate name
This is what step 03 looks like — parse score, every detected issue, and the raw text the ATS extracted.
What we check

15 specific failure patterns.

Each is a real failure mode we've seen ATSes choke on. We flag them, point at where they happened, and tell you exactly how to fix it.
ISSUE_01
Two-column layouts
Text scrambles when read left-to-right. The most common single failure mode.
ISSUE_02
Tables for skills
Skills laid out in tables flatten into one block — 'A/B TestingSQLFigma'.
ISSUE_03
Header & footer text
Critical info in headers/footers gets skipped by half the parsers in the wild.
ISSUE_04
Icon-font bullets
Custom chevron or check icons render as garbage characters.
ISSUE_05
Non-standard fonts
Display fonts that don't embed cleanly drop characters.
ISSUE_06
Text in shapes
Anything inside a text box, callout, or shape is invisible to the ATS.
ISSUE_07
Ambiguous dates
'2020 – Present' may not register as a continuous role to all parsers.
ISSUE_08
Missing section headers
ATSes key off 'Experience', 'Education', 'Skills' — drop them at your peril.
ISSUE_09
Smart quotes & em-dashes
Curly quotes and em-dashes don't always survive the ingestion pipeline.
ISSUE_10
Name as image
A name rendered as a graphic or text-box parses as nothing at all.
ISSUE_11
Image bullets
Custom PNG bullets get stripped — leaving orphan lines with no structure.
ISSUE_12
Embedded LinkedIn icons
Decorative profile icons parse as garbage characters next to your contact line.
+ 3 more patterns surfaced in your scan report
From people who got the call back

"I'd been ghosted for 3 months. Turns out my name wasn't on my resume."

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What you actually get

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Example of an ATS-friendly rebuilt resume — single-column layout, plain bullets, standard fonts, clean section headers
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Single-column, recruiter-friendly
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Plain bullets, standard fonts
Decorative icons render as garbage characters. Custom fonts strip on upload. We use what every parser already knows.
Section headers the ATS recognizes
“Experience”, “Education”, “Skills” — exact tokens that map cleanly into the recruiter's database fields.
Your name on line 1
Not rendered as a styled graphic. Not hiding behind a sidebar. The first text block the parser stores as your identity.
Skills as a plain list
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