Scoritly guides

Practical guidance for each stage of the application.

Start with a readable resume, compare it with the actual role, write from evidence, and keep a record after you apply. These guides explain the decisions behind each step.

Prepare your resume

Make the document readable, then connect truthful evidence to the role.

Download a free ATS resume template

Start with an editable, single-column Word template that uses standard sections, ordinary text, and real bullets.

Get the Word template

Choose what to put on a resume

Build the essential sections, evaluate optional evidence, and order the document around the target role.

Plan the resume sections

Choose resume contact information

Add reliable contact details and useful professional links while keeping unnecessary sensitive personal data out.

Build the contact block

Write a resume with no experience

Build a truthful first resume from education, projects, volunteering, activities, part-time work, and supported skills.

Build a first resume

List projects on a resume

Select relevant classroom, personal, volunteer, and professional projects, then show context, ownership, outputs, and safe links.

Build a projects section

Write stronger resume bullet points

Turn responsibilities into specific accomplishment statements using action, context, and supported outcomes.

Write the bullet points

List work experience clearly

Organize titles, employers, dates, responsibilities, and accomplishments into a relevant, honest chronology.

Build the experience section

Choose how far back a resume should go

Use 10 to 15 years as a starting range, then keep older work when relevance, continuity, or application rules justify it.

Choose the work-history range

List education accurately

Present completed, current, and incomplete education with clear credentials, dates, and relevant supporting detail.

Build the education section

List certifications and licenses

Name each credential and issuer accurately, show its current status, and make required qualifications easy to find.

Build the credentials section

List awards and honors

Select relevant professional, academic, service, and team recognition, then name the issuer, date, and useful context accurately.

Build the awards section

List language skills accurately

Describe relevant language ability by domain, work task, or verified assessment without turning self-evaluation into an official score.

Build the languages section

List volunteer work as relevant experience

Choose and place service work, keep its unpaid context clear, write supported contributions, and protect recipient information.

Build the volunteer section

Explain an employment gap honestly

Keep dates accurate, decide whether a career-break entry helps, show real activity, protect private details, and prepare a concise explanation.

Address the employment gap

Show promotions and multiple roles

Give each title accurate dates, choose a readable same-employer structure, and keep accomplishments with the role where they occurred.

Format the promotion sequence

List publications and presentations

Select relevant outputs, preserve authorship and status, cite each record consistently, and distinguish a targeted resume from a CV.

Build the publications section

List professional affiliations

Choose relevant memberships, name current status and service accurately, separate credentials, and protect private affiliations.

Build the affiliations section

Decide whether hobbies belong

Choose specific, relevant interests, move substantive work to stronger sections, avoid assumed traits, and protect sensitive personal context.

Review hobbies and interests

List relevant coursework

Select a few job-relevant courses, preserve completion status, move substantial academic work into projects, and meet transcript requirements.

Choose relevant coursework

Put an internship on a resume

Use the accurate title, employer, dates, and relevant evidence while handling multiple roles, paid or unpaid context, and confidential work carefully.

List internship experience

List freelance and contract work

Present real client services with accurate titles, business context, dates, scope, confidentiality, worker-status boundaries, and verified results.

List freelance work

Write a focused resume summary

Select relevant experience, skills, credentials, and supported evidence for an optional professional summary.

Write the summary

Write a specific resume objective

Decide whether an objective helps, then connect a clear target to education, projects, transferable skills, or experience you can support.

Write the objective

Write a specific resume headline

Choose an optional job title or short tagline that identifies your focus without inflating a role, credential, or level.

Write the headline

Build an ATS-friendly resume format

Choose a readable structure, file type, and layout, then test the extracted text before applying.

Read the format guide

Choose a one- or two-page resume

Use relevant experience, application rules, and readability to decide how long the resume should be.

Choose the right length

Find resume keywords in a job description

Separate qualifications, tools, responsibilities, and context without copying claims you cannot support.

Find relevant keywords

Choose skills to put on a resume

Select relevant hard and soft skills, name them precisely, and connect important claims to evidence.

Build the skills section

Understand ATS checks

Understand the system first, then use a comparison score as a diagnostic rather than a prediction.

What is an applicant tracking system?

Understand how ATS software collects applications, supports hiring workflows, and may assist screening.

Learn how an ATS works

What is a good ATS score?

Learn what a third-party match score can measure, what it cannot measure, and how to act on the result.

Understand ATS scores

Are ATS resume checkers accurate?

See where checker output is useful, where it can mislead, and how to verify recommendations before editing.

Review checker accuracy

Apply and stay organized

Turn the role-specific evidence into a clear application you can follow up on.

Write a cover letter for a specific job

Select relevant evidence, structure four concise parts, and review every AI-assisted sentence in your own voice.

Write the letter

Track job applications with a simple system

Keep a useful record of roles, dates, status changes, contacts, follow-ups, and the materials you submitted.

Build a tracking system

Follow up after a job application

Choose an appropriate time, contact a known recipient, write one clear question, and record the next action.

Write a follow-up

Prepare a job reference sheet

Keep references separate from a standard resume, ask permission, and share authorized contact details only when requested.

Prepare references

Put it into practice

Compare your resume with the job you want.

Scoritly shows job-specific gaps and keeps every suggested edit available for your review.

Try the free ATS checker Compare plans