Resume Score vs ATS Checker

Two checks, two questions

JobHoot shows more than one number, and the pages that produce them are not substitutes. Resume Score comes from a PDF you upload on `/resume-score/`. You do not paste a job ad. You do not create an account. The result is about the document: did the text come out, are the headings recognizable, is the experience specific or only a list of duties. Parse Rate sits inside that result. It is the share of the file that arrived as clean, selectable text. It is a JobHoot heuristic. It is not a reading from Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or whatever tool the employer happens to license.

Job Match Score is the other check. It lives in ATS Checker at `/ats-checker/`, which is part of the signed-in app. That URL does not take a language prefix and it is not in the sitemap. You paste one vacancy. The score asks whether this resume uses that posting's words next to work you actually did. One token, Rp 250, pays for that AI check. The guest Resume Score does not.

People type "ATS score" for both, because ads and captions use one phrase for every gauge. The title on the marketing page keeps the phrase so the search still lands. Inside the product the labels do not collapse. If you treat a high Resume Score as proof you match a treasury ad, you have mixed the two questions.

What a high Resume Score can hide

A one-column CV about retail operations can parse at a high rate and read as a solid document. Dates are in the body. Bullets name the store, the shift size, and the stock count. Resume Score will look fine. A posting for financial reporting that says "IFRS" and "cash-flow forecasting" will not find itself in that file. Job Match Score, once you paste that posting, is allowed to be low. The file was not bad. It was aimed somewhere else.

The reverse happens too. A designed poster can be full of the right keywords, sitting in text boxes and a sidebar of icons. Parse Rate comes back poor. There is nothing honest for Job Match Score to compare, because the second column never became text. Fix the file, upload again, read Parse Rate, and only then paste the vacancy. A matcher run on a broken extract will scold you for missing a job title that was on the page the whole time, trapped in a shape.

What Job Match Score will not borrow from the other number

The checker does not average itself with Resume Score into a third "ATS score." A recruiter's software does not do that either. Some companies store the PDF and let a person search. Some parse into fields and knock out a missing answer. Almost none of them publish the formula a subscription tool implies when it prints one percentage. JobHoot's match is labeled as a match against the posting you supplied, and the result page says it is not a simulation of a vendor ATS and not a guarantee.

The rewrite that can follow the match is allowed to use lines you already have. It is not allowed to add an employer, a degree, or a date. If the posting requires a license you do not hold, the gap stays. Raising the number by fiction would make the two checks agree and make the document a lie. The product would rather show the gap.

Which one to run this afternoon

If you have a PDF and no particular ad open, use the free upload. Look at Parse Rate first. If it is low, rebuild in one column with the name in the body and headings you would say out loud: Experience, Education, Skills. Export so the text is still selectable. Upload again. That loop costs nothing and does not touch the 50 tokens a new account receives.

If the file reads cleanly and you are holding one job description, sign in and run Job Match Score on that description only. Spend the token when you want the weak lines rewritten around the posting's vocabulary. A second posting is a second check. Do not assume Tuesday's percentage still describes Thursday's ad. The words changed.

Skip both numbers if you are still deciding whether the role is real. A score will not tell you the team is kind or the salary band is honest. It will tell you whether the file can be searched, and whether this one ad can find the work you have already done.

How the pages stay distinct in search

`/resume-score/` is the free, no-signup check. Guides that say "ATS checker" and mean a comparison to a posting point at the signed-in tool, and they should say Job Match Score once they are describing the product. The glossary at `/glossary/` anchors the four names: ATS for the employer's software, Resume Score for the PDF, Parse Rate for the extraction, Job Match Score for one vacancy. Use the glossary when a sentence on the site starts to slide back into a single nickname. The nickname can stay in the headline. It cannot be the only name on the result.