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How Maseera scores your ATS readiness

When Maseera shows an "ATS score", here is exactly what it measures and why — so you can trust the number and act on it.

There is no single "ATS standard"

Applicant Tracking Systems are built by many companies — Workday, Greenhouse, Taleo, iCIMS, Lever and others — and each parses a CV slightly differently. There is no official specification or certification to comply with. What does exist is a consistent set of CV-parsing best practices, documented by the ATS vendors themselves and by university career centres. Maseera's score measures your CV against that documented consensus.

What the score checks

Formatting & parseability

0–25

Whether an ATS can read your CV cleanly in the first place.

  • Single-column layout — multiple columns scramble the parse order
  • Standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills)
  • No tables, text boxes, or columns holding important content
  • Contact details in the body, not in a page header or footer
  • Standard fonts; no images or icons carrying key information
  • Consistent, machine-readable dates

Keyword match

0–25

How well the CV matches the role you are targeting.

  • Role-relevant skills and terms recruiters search for
  • Headline and summary aligned to the target role

Achievement quality

0–25

Whether your experience reads as results, not just duties.

  • Bullets follow: action verb + task + measurable result
  • Concrete outcomes rather than plain task lists

Completeness

0–25

Whether the CV has everything a recruiter and an ATS expect.

  • All key sections present — summary, experience, education, skills, contact
  • Every role has a title, a company, and dates
  • Length kept to one or two pages of content

Where the rubric comes from

Every item above traces to CV-parsing guidance published by major ATS vendors and by established university career centres. It is the documented consensus on what helps a CV parse correctly — not a Maseera invention.

What the score is — and isn't

The score is an ATS-readiness estimate. It tells you how well your CV follows widely-documented parsing best practices. Because every employer's ATS behaves a little differently, it is guidance — not a guaranteed pass at any specific company. Use it to remove the formatting and keyword problems that commonly cause a CV to be misread.