How each screener actually reads your résumé.
Our scoring engine is built on documented parser behavior. Each playbook pulls vendor docs and recruiter accounts into the handful of rules that actually change how a given platform reads you.
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Start hereThe "75% of résumés are auto-rejected" number is not what it looks like. Here is what the record actually shows about who gets filtered, and by what.
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Knockout questions are the only auto-reject here. Everything else is read by a person, so format for both the parsed profile and the PDF a recruiter actually opens.
Read the playbook →Your Professional Summary is not searchable. Keywords you put there won't show up in a recruiter's query, so move them into Skills and Experience.
Read the playbook →It indexes the whole document body, so skills in your bullets count. The catch: an em-dash in a heading can make it misread your tech stack.
Read the playbook →The ALEX parser allows a 1:30 timeout and 2 attempts. A heavy PDF that times out leaves an empty profile, and you never see an error.
Read the playbook →Miss one required keyword and you drop to the "Other" tier, which most recruiters never open. It's the least forgiving scoring rule of the six.
Read the playbook →The most forgiving parser of the six. Even so, Winston Match still rewards a clear skills section and a legible career progression over a creative layout.
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