What the JobHoot scores mean

ATS

ATS means applicant tracking software. A company uses it to store applications, search the text, and move people through stages. It is the filing system, not a grade.

There is no single ATS. Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, and the smaller tools used by Indonesian employers do not share one scoring formula. A recruiter can search for "IFRS" or "STR" inside the pile. Some setups auto-reject a missing field, such as a work permit answer. Many do not rank you with a public number at all.

When a job ad says "we use an ATS," read it as: your file will be stored as text and searched later. The design of the PDF matters only insofar as the text survives. A two-column poster that looks sharp on a phone can arrive as a scrambled paragraph. The software did not "reject your personality." It failed to read the file, or a person never opened it because two hundred other files arrived the same afternoon.

JobHoot does not pretend to be that company's ATS. The product measures your file and, when you are signed in, one posting you paste. Those measurements have their own names below.

Resume Score

Resume Score is the number you get from a PDF upload on the free check, with no account and no job description. It looks at the resume as a document: whether the text extracted, whether headings are recognizable, whether experience is specific, and whether the file is mostly real sentences rather than a picture.

The page lives at `/resume-score/`. The result URL for one upload is private and is not listed in the sitemap. You can run it before you create an account. It does not tell you that Bank Mandiri, Gojek, or any named employer will call. It tells you what JobHoot could read and which parts of the document look thin.

People search for "ATS score" because that is the phrase in ads and TikTok captions. The title and the button on the marketing page keep that phrase so the search matches. Inside the result, the number is Resume Score. If you later paste a vacancy, that second number is not this one.

A Resume Score can be high on a generic file that would still miss a specific posting. A clean one-column CV with strong bullets about retail can score well and still be a poor match for a treasury role. That gap is why a second measurement exists.

Parse Rate

Parse Rate is the share of the file that came out as clean, selectable text. It sits inside the Resume Score result. It is a JobHoot heuristic, not a reading from Workday or any other vendor.

A Parse Rate near 100 percent means the words you typed are the words a search can find: job titles, dates, tools, and employers. A low rate usually means the text lives in a text box, a table used as a layout, a header that holds your name, or a scanned image with no text layer. Icons for "phone" and "email" do not count as the words phone and email.

Fix the file before you chase keywords. If the parser dropped your second column, adding "stakeholder management" in a text box on that column does nothing. Export again from a single column, upload the new PDF, and read the Parse Rate before you read anything else.

The label on the result page is Parse Rate. In Indonesian the same control reads Tingkat Keterbacaan. Both point at this percentage, not at a match against a vacancy.

Job Match Score

Job Match Score compares one resume to one vacancy. You need an account, because the check stores the posting next to your document. The tool is ATS Checker, at `/ats-checker/`, and that app URL stays out of the language prefix and out of Google's index.

The score asks a narrower question than Resume Score: did the words and the proof in this file line up with this posting? A finance vacancy that says "cash-flow forecasting" and "SAP" will not treat a bullet about "helped the team with reports" as a match, even if the human behind the bullet did the forecast. The posting's terms have to appear next to work you actually did.

JobHoot will not invent an employer, a degree, or a date to raise the number. If the vacancy asks for a license you do not hold, the honest result is a gap, not a rewritten line that pretends you hold it. Recheck Job Match Score after you edit. The new number replaces the old one for that posting. It still is not a promise that the recruiter's own software uses the same math.

How the four names sit together

Use ATS when you mean the employer's software. Use Resume Score for the free PDF check. Use Parse Rate for the extraction percentage on that check. Use Job Match Score only when a specific vacancy is in the comparison.

Marketing lines can still say "ATS score," because that is what people type. The product does not use that phrase as the name of a number. If a sentence on JobHoot could swap one label for another and still sound right, the sentence is wrong.