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The score the builder gives, before you open it

The checker reads your resume into the same document the Offermic builder edits, with the same import, and then runs the builder’s own rules on it in your browser. That makes the number here the number the builder would show on the first day, and each finding points at something you can change: a missing phone number, a bullet over220 characters, a job with no dates. Nothing is decided by a second AI opinion; once the resume is read, the score is arithmetic over published rules.

What the three parts measure

Parsing is 30% of the score. It asks whether software can take the resume apart again: the name, the contact details, each entry with its dates, and section headings it recognizes. Content is 45% and reads how the bullets and the summary are written, such as their length, whether they open with what you did, and how many carry a number. Completeness is 25% and looks for the parts a reader expects, from experience and education to skills and a location. A blocker, such as a resume with no name or no email, holds the total at49 or below until it is fixed. From 85 a resume counts as ready, and from 60 as almost there.

Why the parsing part comes first

Applicant tracking systems do not read a resume the way a person does. Their parsers turn the text into fields, and the vendors document what they look for: contact details, each position with its employer and dates, and the sections that hold them. A resume whose dates come back as loose text or whose heading is not recognized can lose those fields before anyone reads it. The resume builder page quotes what the vendors themselves say, with links, and the sources table names the page behind each rule.

The file checks for a PDF

A PDF is also read in your browser the way a parser reads it, from its text layer. That catches problems the words alone cannot show: a scan with no text at all, two columns that come back interleaved, letters spaced so far apart that “Experience” reads as single characters, or an email that does not come back from the file. A Word file is checked for its content only. The full list of file checks and when each one fails is in thepublished rules.

What a score cannot tell you

A high score means the resume is easy for software to read and follows common advice on how resumes are written. It cannot judge whether the experience fits a particular job, and it does not know whether a claim is true. Use the findings to clean up the resume, then read it against the posting yourself. When the interview is booked, theresume questions tool shows what an interviewer is likely to ask about it.