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ATS Resume Score Checker

Upload a resume. Get an ATS score + actionable fixes.

Sep 29 – Sep 30, 20260 / 100 interested24h estimated4 members / team

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What You Will Build

A web app with two modes:

Upload Resume + Paste Job Description → Get match score + keyword gap analysis
Generic ATS Check → Checks for common ATS-friendly formatting rules

Core Requirements

Upload PDF or paste text resume
Paste job description
Extract keywords from both (skills, tools, qualifications)
Calculate match score (0-100)
Show missing keywords + suggestions
Highlight formatting issues (tables, images, headers)

Bonus Features

Suggest alternative keywords ("React" → "React.js", "frontend" → "front-end")
Industry-specific scoring (tech vs. finance vs. healthcare)
Resume comparison — upload 2 versions, see which scores better

Judging Criteria (100 Points)

Criteria	Points	What Judges Look For
Accuracy	35	Does the score actually correlate with real ATS behavior?
NLP Quality	25	Smart keyword extraction, not just string matching
UI/UX	25	Clear visual feedback, actionable suggestions
Presentation	15	README + demo video

Learning Outcomes

NLP basics: tokenization, stop words, lemmatization
TF-IDF and cosine similarity
PDF text extraction
Understanding how recruiters and ATS systems scan resumes

Starter Resources

spaCy quickstart guide
Common ATS keywords by role (backend, frontend, data, etc.)
PyPDF2 vs. pdfplumber comparison

Post-Challenge

Test it on 10 real resumes from the community
Publish a blog: "I reverse-engineered how ATS works"
Join Challenge 3: Chat with PDF

Quick Info

Duration

Sep 29 – Sep 30, 2026

Interested

0 / 100

Team Size

4 members

Est. Hours

24h

Tech Stack

PythonspaCy / NLTKscikit-learnTF-IDFStreamlitPyPDF2