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ATS Resume Checker for the USA — See What Fortune 500 Companies Actually Parse from Your Resume

99% of Fortune 500 employers route resumes through Applicant Tracking Systems before any recruiter sees them. See exactly what Amazon, Google, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs extract from your resume — free, in under 30 seconds.

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Why ATS matters more in the US than anywhere else

The US is the largest single ATS-routed hiring market on Earth. The combination of Fortune 500 hiring volume, US employment law's reliance on documented screening criteria, and the dominance of Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Oracle Taleo, and iCIMS means nearly every meaningful US application goes through automated parsing before any human review.

The numbers are stark. A single Senior Software Engineer position at Google or Amazon can receive 10,000+ applications in 48 hours. Even mid-market employers see 200-500 applications per posting. There is no universe where humans read every one — ATS keyword matching is how the pile gets reduced to the 20-50 candidates a recruiter actually reviews.

Industry studies (Jobscan 2025 Fortune 500 ATS Report, CoverSentry 2026 ATS Statistics) estimate 75% of US resumes are filtered out by ATS before a human sees them. The majority of those rejections are structural — design choices that look fine in Word but break when Workday or Greenhouse parses the PDF.

5 resume mistakes that auto-reject US applicants

Two-column 'modern' templates from Canva, Resume.io, or Enhancv

These templates dominate US job-seeker traffic but break almost every major US ATS. Workday and Greenhouse both read left-to-right by row, scrambling your work history when content is split across columns. Your job titles end up paired with the wrong companies, and your skills get glued to dates from unrelated jobs. Single-column only — every single time.

Photo on your resume

US recruiters explicitly disallow photos for legal compliance reasons (Equal Employment Opportunity / anti-discrimination law). Many international applicants include a photo because it's standard in their home country (UAE, Germany, France) — but in the US it triggers immediate filtering at large employers. Remove it for any US-routed application.

Date of birth or marital status

Both are illegal for US employers to consider during hiring, which means HR systems are configured to automatically discard applications that include them. Sometimes the entire application is rejected silently. If your resume came from a non-US template, audit for these fields and remove.

Unquantified bullets

US recruiters and ATS engines both reward specific numbers. 'Led a team that improved customer satisfaction' is invisible. 'Led 12-person team that lifted CSAT from 3.4 to 4.7, increasing annual revenue $8.2M' is a hit. ATS keyword matching looks for dollar amounts, percentages, and headcount as ranking signals. If your bullets don't have at least 2 numbers each, you're hurting yourself.

Resume that's too long for your experience level

US norm: 1 page for 0-7 years experience, 2 pages for 8-20 years, 3 pages only at executive/C-suite. A 3-page resume from a 4-year-experienced candidate signals inability to prioritize and often gets de-prioritized in recruiter review even if the ATS doesn't auto-filter. Stay tight.

What ATSes do major US employers actually use?

  • Amazon, Walmart, Target, Adobe, Salesforce, Netflix: Workday
  • Stripe, Airbnb, Pinterest, DoorDash, Lyft, Squarespace, Snap, Coinbase: Greenhouse
  • Microsoft, Meta, Google (some divisions), Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase: Workday
  • Goldman Sachs, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo: Workday and Oracle Taleo
  • Apple, Tesla, Roblox, Reddit, Cloudflare, Datadog, Roblox, Plaid: Lever
  • Disney, Comcast, Marriott, Hilton: Oracle Taleo and Workday
  • Federal government (USAJobs): Custom federal ATS (Monster Government Solutions)
  • Healthcare giants (HCA, Kaiser, UnitedHealth): iCIMS and Workday
  • Most US startups under 500 employees: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, or Workable

Pricing — straightforward USD

One-time pricing. No subscription. Payment via Stripe (Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Google Pay, US cards work natively).

TierPriceWhat you get
Free ScanFreeScore + top 3 issues
Verbatim Rebuild$5ATS-safe layout, same words
Enhanced (AI bullets)$9STAR/XYZ bullet rewrites
Bundle + JD-Match$14Tailored to a specific job

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