Your résumé is read by a robot first.
Before a recruiter ever sees it, an applicant tracking system parses, scores, and filters your résumé. Past the Bots shows you exactly what the machine extracts, why it gets dropped, and how to fix it.
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- Name
- Jordan Rivera
- — not detected —
- Experience
- scrambled (2-column)
- Skills
- React, AWS, Python, SQL
A strong candidate the ATS would quietly drop — for fixable formatting.
Most mid-to-large employers screen résumés with software like Workday, Greenhouse, or Taleo. Qualified people get filtered for reasons that have nothing to do with fit — columns the parser scrambles, text trapped in images, the wrong keywords. Past the Bots makes the invisible visible.
Tuned for how the real screeners read
These systems don't all parse a résumé the same way — which is why the same file sails through one and gets shredded by another.
See what they see. Fix it. Get through.
Start with a free check. Fix what the bot tripped on. Then tailor it to the job you actually want.
Check your résumé
Drop in a PDF, DOCX, or TXT. We parse it the way an ATS does, including the layout tricks that break parsers, and show every field, section, and skill it pulled.
Check my résumé →Fix what broke
Every parse problem comes with its fix, plus a clean, single-column ATS-safe rebuild. Rescan as often as you like until the bot reads it right.
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Paste a job description to see exactly what's missing, then get a tailored résumé and cover letter written only from your real experience. Nothing invented.
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