Free ATS Resume Checker for Indian Students & Freshers

What is an ATS score, and why does it matter?

An applicant tracking system is the software companies use to collect and filter resumes. It reads your resume as plain text, so anything it cannot parse, such as tables, columns or images, can sink an otherwise strong application. Recruiters then search that text for skills and keywords. Your ATS score estimates how cleanly the software can read your resume and how strongly it signals a good candidate to the person who reads it next.

How OfferStack calculates your ATS score

The score runs the same checks every time, across five areas that add up to 100 points:

• Contact and completeness (18 points): a valid email, a real phone number, a LinkedIn or GitHub link, a target job title, and your degree and college.
• Summary (12 points): 30 to 80 words, focused on achievements rather than an old-style “objective”, with no personal pronouns.
• Bullet point quality (38 points): quantified impact without stuffing a number into every line, strong action verbs instead of “worked on” or “helped”, no buzzwords like “team player”, varied opening verbs, and bullets of a sensible length.
• Skills (20 points): a technical skills section with at least 10 relevant skills.
• Soft signals (12 points): evidence of teamwork, leadership and communication, which recruiters look for beyond raw skills.

On top of that, an integrity check caps your score if the resume still contains unfilled placeholders like [X] or [N], or a fake-looking phone number. A recruiter would reject those on sight, so the score does too.

Match your resume to a job description

Paste a job description and OfferStack shows how well your resume matches it, along with the keywords from the job description that your resume is missing. Adding the ones that genuinely apply to you is one of the quickest ways to get past keyword filters for a specific role.

Common ATS mistakes freshers make

• Leaving template placeholders or dummy numbers in the final resume.
• Starting bullets with “Responsible for” or “Worked on” instead of what you achieved.
• Listing duties with no results, or the opposite, putting a percentage in every single line.
• Writing a generic objective statement instead of a short, specific summary.
• Using two-column templates, tables or graphics that ATS software cannot read.
• A thin skills section that is missing the tools named in the job description.

How to check your resume

• Upload your resume as a PDF, DOCX or TXT file, or fill in the form from scratch.
• See your score out of 100 with a breakdown of what is helping and what is hurting.
• Click Fix with AI on any issue to rewrite weak bullets, then fill in your real numbers.
• Your score updates live as you edit, with no need to re-upload. Export an ATS-safe PDF when you are done.