Description

ATS Match Report
Price: $15 USD | Know exactly how your CV scores against the job — before you apply.

What it is

The ATS Match Report takes your CV and one specific job description and shows you, line by line, how well they match. You get a predicted score out of 100, a transparent breakdown of where every point came from, a list of what’s missing, and a rewritten version of your CV content built strictly from the experience you already have. It is the difference between hoping your CV gets through and knowing whether it will.

Why it matters

Most employers now run applications through an Applicant Tracking System before a human reads them. The system parses your CV, extracts your skills, titles and dates, and ranks you against the job description. Recruiters then search that ranked list using the exact words from the job advert. If your CV describes the right experience in the wrong language, it ranks below weaker candidates who happened to use the right terms. It doesn’t matter how good you are if the system can’t see it.

The frustrating part is that most of these gaps are not gaps in experience. They are gaps in wording, structure and emphasis: the job says “SME” and your CV says “SMB”; the job asks for “customer acquisition” and your CV calls it “growth”; the tool they list is one you’ve used for years but never wrote down. The report finds every one of those and tells you which are fixable today, which need a number you can go and get, and which are real gaps you shouldn’t paper over.

What you get

• A predicted ATS match score and tier, so you know where you stand: exceptional, strong, moderate, weak, or knocked out.
• A full scorecard across seven weighted categories — keyword match, job title alignment, experience depth, credentials, responsibilities and achievements, formatting and parsability, and soft skills — with the reasoning and the arithmetic shown for every score.
• A ranked, colour-coded keyword map of the 15 to 25 terms an ATS or recruiter is most likely to search for in that role, marked as matched, partially matched or absent in your CV.
• A knockout check for location, work authorisation and mandatory credentials, because no amount of rewriting fixes a hard filter.
• A gap analysis in three parts: missing required skills, missing preferred skills, and things you have but have buried.
• Eight to twelve prioritised recommendations, each with what to change, where in the CV, why it matters to the system or the recruiter, and the estimated point gain.
• Rewritten content you can use immediately: a new professional summary, a regrouped skills section in the job description’s exact language, and rewritten experience bullets in action, task and result form.
• A projected score if you make every change honestly, and a clear statement of which gaps remain unclosable without new experience.
• A formatting and parsing audit of the actual file, catching the things you can’t see: hidden characters, broken dates, mixed fonts and layouts that confuse the parser.

What it will not do

It will not invent experience. Every recommendation and every rewritten line stays within what your CV already supports, and anything that needs confirming from you is clearly marked rather than assumed. It will not tell you to stuff keywords, hide white text or game the system. Recruiters see through that, and a report that flatters you into a score you can’t defend in an interview is worse than useless. It will not promise a number that reality can’t deliver: real ATS behaviour varies by platform and by how each recruiter configures their search, and the report says so.

Who it’s for

Anyone applying for a specific role who wants to stop guessing. It is most valuable when the job matters, when you know you’re qualified but keep hearing nothing back, or when your experience is described in a different vocabulary from the one the employer uses — a sector change, a move between company types, or a job title that doesn’t match what you actually did.

How it works

After you buy, you will get an email within minutes with a short intake form. Submit your CV and the job description there. You receive the report as a PDF, typically ten to twelve pages, written for you rather than for a machine. Read the verdict first, then work through the recommendations in order; they are ranked by impact, so the first three usually move the score more than the rest combined. Pair it with the Interview Toolkit (Interview Fit and Alignment Guide and Storybank) and the same job description becomes your interview preparation plan, because every responsibility the employer listed is a question they are likely to ask.

Remove the guesswork. Prepare with structure and focus.