Resume Intelligence
Evidence-based guidance for understanding how your resume communicates fit for a specific job.
25 reference pages. Where a page describes our own scoring approach, it is labelled as Optimize Resume methodology rather than an outside standard.
Resume Matching & Scoring
What a match score is, how to read one, and what it cannot tell you.
- What Is a Resume Match Score?What a match score measures, and the difference between a score and a verdict.
- What Is a Good Resume Match Score?How to interpret a score band without treating it as a pass mark.
- How Closely Should a Resume Match a Job Description?Align on substance and vocabulary; never mirror the posting word for word.
ATS & AI Screening
How applicant tracking systems and AI screening tools differ.
- Do Recruiters Use AI to Screen Resumes?Two different things that get confused: record-keeping software and evaluative AI.
- What Is an ATS and How Does It Parse Resumes?Parsing, search, filters, and where evaluation actually happens.
- Resume Keywords: How to Choose ThemWhy wording alignment helps clarity but repetition never earns experience.
- How to Make a Resume ATS-FriendlyStructure that survives parsing, without gimmicks aimed at software.
- Can an ATS Read PDFs?Usually yes — with two specific exceptions worth checking.
- Can an ATS Read Columns and Tables?Sometimes — and when it fails, it fails in ways you will not see.
- What Does an ATS Actually Reject?Employer-configured filters and knockout questions — not layout preferences.
Resume Structure & Format
Format, length, and the sections that earn their space.
Job Requirements & Fit
Reading a posting properly and deciding whether to apply.
Resume Improvement
Tailoring, evidence, and describing work you have actually done.
- How to Tailor a Resume to a Job DescriptionA repeatable process that surfaces real evidence instead of rewriting history.
- How Much Should You Change Your Resume for Each Job?Where the useful edits are, and where extra effort stops paying off.
- How to Identify Missing Experience in Your ResumeSeparating experience you never wrote down from experience you do not have.
- How to Quantify Resume AchievementsAdding credible numbers — and describing impact honestly when numbers do not exist.
- Resume Action Verbs: When They Matter—and When They Don'tVerbs signal ownership; they cannot substitute for evidence.
- How to Write a Resume SummaryThree sentences that carry evidence, rewritten for each posting.
- How to Write Resume Bullet PointsAction, scope, and outcome — in one readable line each.
OptimizeResume Methodology
Our rubric, our evidence states, and the limits we hold ourselves to.
- How OptimizeResume Calculates Resume MatchThe calculation, step by step: criteria, evidence states, weights, and arithmetic.
- The OptimizeResume Resume-Matching MethodologyThe principles behind the rubric: evidence, restraint, and user approval.
- What AI Resume Tools Should and Shouldn't ChangeA boundary line: clarity and structure yes, facts and experience no.
See how your resume stacks up against the job you want.
Paste a resume and a job description and get a criterion-by-criterion read of what your resume evidences — with the reasoning shown.
Score my resume