Sample report

This is what an ATS sees when you upload a typical resume.

Below is a real scan report from a 2-column resume — the kind Canva, Enhancv, and most resume builders produce by default. Every issue you see is detected by the same parser we run on your file. Scroll through, then upload your own to see what yours actually looks like.

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Parsing Score
0/100
GRADE C
Notable issues
Parsing-check score (not a fake JD match). Most ATS-safe resumes score 85+. Bands: A 90+, B 75+, C 60+, D 40+, F under 40.
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What the ATS read — and what's broken.

YOUR FILE
PDF
FILE_NAME
SarahChen_Resume.pdf
FILE SIZE
213.4 KB
PAGES
1
PARSE TIME
187 ms
WORDS EXTRACTED
180
LINES
38
CHARACTERS
1,289
Privacy. Your file was parsed in memory only. It was never written to disk and we don't store anything beyond this view.
WHAT THE ATS READS
4 issues found
CONTACT
sarah.chen@email.com
+1 (415) 555-0142
San Francisco, CA
linkedin.com/in/sarahjchen
EDUCATION
B.S. Business Administration
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2013 – 2017
SKILLS
Product StrategyRoadmappingA/B Testing
SQLUser ResearchFigmaJiraMixpanel
OKRsCross-functional LeadershipStakeholder MgmtGTM
TOOLS
FigmaJiraMixpanelLooker
Notion
LANGUAGES
English — Native
Mandarin — Fluent
SARAH JCHEN
Senior Product Manager — fintech & SaaS
PROFESSIONAL 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.
PROFESSIONAL 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
Associate PM  2017 – 2019
Bright Labs
Launched in-app messaging used by 380K MAU within 6 months
Ran 40+ user interviews informing 2024 roadmap pivot
Diagnosis
4 issues flagged on this resume
2 CRITICAL1 WARNING1 INFO
CRITICAL
ISSUE_01
Two-column layout caused field scrambling

Sidebar content (CONTACT…) appears 21 lines before your "PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY" section. ATS reads in document order, not visual order.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
FixSwitch to a single-column layout. Sections should flow top-to-bottom in the order they should be read.
CRITICAL
ISSUE_02
Skills/tech section parsed as flattened blob

Tokens like "StrategyRoadmappingA/B", "SQLUser", "ResearchFigmaJiraMixpanel" appear in your extracted text — these are typically tools or systems laid out in a table where each cell held one term. The ATS concatenates cells with no separator, so "StrategyRoadmappingA/B" should be "Strategy·Roadmapping·A/B" — but right now no recruiter searching for any single term in there will match you.

StrategyRoadmappingA/B, SQLUser, ResearchFigmaJiraMixpanel, OKRsCross-functional
FixReplace the table with a comma-separated inline list. e.g.: "SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, Cognos, Dynamics" — each term becomes individually searchable.
WARNING
ISSUE_03
Ambiguous date format

Date ranges like "2013 – 2017" use just years — no months. Some ATS engines need month resolution to compute tenure correctly, and can mis-categorize roles as "less than 1 year" when they shouldn't.

2013 – 2017
FixUse full month abbreviations: "Mar 2022 – Present" or "Jun 2019 – Feb 2022". Three letters + four digits + en-dash is the safest format.
INFO
ISSUE_04
Em-dashes used as separators

You use the em-dash character (—) 5 times. Modern ATS engines handle this fine, but a few legacy systems (Taleo, older iCIMS) convert em-dashes inconsistently — sometimes to spaces, sometimes to question marks.

FixOptional: replace em-dashes with hyphens or commas if you're targeting employers known to use older ATS infrastructure. Otherwise, no action needed.
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