An ATS score estimates how well your resume matches a specific job inside an Applicant Tracking System — the software that parses and ranks resumes before a human reads them. JobU’s score weighs four things: whether the ATS can read your CV (searchability), how closely your skills and their frequency match the job description (hard skills), whether your layout parses cleanly (formatting), and whether your bullets show measurable impact.

Accuracy is about honesty. Many free checkers inflate scores into the 80s and 90s to feel encouraging. JobU re-scores the same resume the way leading tools do and lands it in the same honest band — for the sample full-stack CV, JobU scores 64 next to Jobscan 61, Resume Worded 58 and VMock 66. A useful score is one that matches reality and tells you exactly what to fix.

Yes. Switch to General CV health and JobU grades formatting, impact, readability and parse-safety against benchmarks of resumes that landed offers — no JD needed. Use this when you don’t have a specific role yet. Paste a job description when you want keyword and skill-match scoring for one target.

Aim to roughly match the job description’s frequency — don’t stuff. Recruiter software counts how often each skill appears, so a skill the JD names three times that you mention zero times reads as missing. JobU shows a side-by-side table of every key skill — how many times it appears in the JD versus your CV — so you close the gap deliberately.

It can be. Older ATS parsers may read two-column layouts out of order and scramble your experience. JobU’s parse audit flags this as high-severity and recommends a single-column layout for submission. It also flags icons in the contact line and a name placed in the page header, both of which can break parsing.

Often it’s filtered before a human sees it. Common causes JobU detects: missing JD keywords, a layout the parser can’t read, non-standard headings like “Work History” instead of “Experience”, a missing graduation date, and bullets with no numbers. The scanner shows each issue with a one-line fix so you can resubmit with a higher match rate.

Yes. It works for freshers, MBA candidates and non-tech roles — sales, operations, BPO, HR — across India and the GCC. For freshers it leans on General CV health and the impact and formatting checks, since you may not yet be tailoring to one job description.

It’s credits-based with free starter credits, so you can scan your resume without paying. Paid plans add unlimited scans and the wider coach — the Job-Specific Prep workspace, mock rounds and your Readiness Score. There’s no “free-forever unlimited” claim; the free tier is a set of starter credits.

Knock-out questions are the screening questions on an application form — work authorisation, willingness to relocate, notice period, minimum years of experience, degree requirement. The ATS auto-rejects answers that fail the rule, often before a human or your match score is involved. JobU checks your resume against these common knock-outs and flags blanks like missing work-authorisation or relocation, so you don’t get filtered out on a technicality.

Yes. JobU builds the timeline an ATS reads from your roles and flags unexplained gaps, missing or inconsistent dates, and whether your roles are in reverse-chronological order. For a gap, it suggests adding a study, freelance or project line so the time reads as accounted for rather than missing.

No. The AI drafts rewrites only for the lines it flags, and every change is a suggestion you approve before it touches your CV — it never invents achievements or skills you don’t have. Because it sharpens your real experience rather than generating a template, what a recruiter reads is your own resume made clearer, not an AI-generated one.

JobU’s AI parses your resume and the job description, scores the match and drafts fixes. Career coaches design and review the rubric and benchmarks, and you stay in control: every fix is a suggestion you approve before it changes your CV. JobU won’t auto-apply on your behalf or invent achievements you didn’t do.