Resume Score
Instant cosine-similarity resume scoring against a real job description, with the specific missing terms worth addressing.
A fast, standalone fit-check — upload a CV and a job description, get a similarity score and a list of missing terms worth addressing, without a formal application anywhere in the loop.
It's deliberately lighter-weight than the full CMS pipeline: no Gemini call, no evidence extraction, just vector-space text comparison returned in seconds. That trade-off is the point — this tool is built for volume and speed, not for the final word on a hiring decision.
On this page
01What it does
Uses vector-space cosine similarity between the CV text and job description text — a different, lighter technique from the full CMS pipeline's LLM-based extraction, purpose-built for a quick self-serve check rather than a formal hiring decision. The output includes both the similarity score and a plain list of terms present in the job description but absent from the CV.
02Who it's for
Candidates checking a resume before applying, career coaches reviewing a client's draft, and recruiters who want to triage a large inbound batch fast before spending CMS budget on the ones worth a closer look. It's also the tool behind Bulk Resume Screen's first pass.
03What makes this different
Cosine similarity doesn't read for meaning the way Gemini-based CMS extraction does, and it doesn't pretend to — it's a transparent, fast text-matching method with no AI cost per check, which is exactly why it's suited to a first-pass filter on a large batch rather than a single high-stakes decision.
04Why it matters
A candidate can sanity-check a resume before applying instead of guessing; a recruiter can triage a hundred CVs down to a shortlist in the time it would take to run full evidence-based scoring on all of them. Neither replaces the CMS score — this is the fast filter that decides what's worth running CMS on next.
05Pricing and what's included
Included from the free 14-day Trial plan upward, no card required. Starter includes 100 checks a month, Growth 500, Professional 2,500, Business 10,000, and Enterprise 25,000 — enough headroom for a genuinely high-volume screening habit without touching your CMS Score allowance.
06Support
The Help Center covers how cosine similarity differs from CMS scoring in more depth if you want to understand the mechanism before relying on it; support@expertini.com is there for anything more specific.
Platform architecture & operations
A1Architecture: where it sits in the platform
Resume Score is a first-class module of the Screening & Evaluation suite inside the authenticated Expertini ATS workspace. The platform is deliberately server-rendered: every view is prepared by the application server and shipped as complete HTML, with no client-side framework, no third-party CDN scripts, and no build pipeline between the data and the page. What renders is what the server computed — the property that makes the interface auditable.
All persistence runs on a single search-native document store; every query carries the organisation's identifier as a mandatory filter at the lowest query layer. Tenant isolation is therefore structural — a property of how every request is composed — rather than a policy that relies on application code remembering to check.
Availability is governed by the platform's tool registry: this tool is registered from the Trial plan, and access is enforced server-side by the registry gate on every request — never by hiding a button. Plans also carry a monthly distinct-tool quota (3 / 5 / 15 / 30 / 45 across Trial→Business, unlimited on Enterprise), counted at the same chokepoint. The pricing page states both honestly: what is available, and how much of it the month includes.
A2Data model and dependency map
In production the tool reads and writes job requisitions (ats_jobs), the candidate database (ats_candidates). Documents are plain, explicitly-mapped fields — mappings are provisioned ahead of first write, so term filters and aggregations behave deterministically instead of depending on inferred types.
Every distinct open is journalled to the tool-activity store — and that journal, not a parallel analytics system, is what the Reports section aggregates. The usage numbers you see are the numbers the platform actually recorded.
Anything that leaves the request path — notification fan-out, webhook delivery, activity journalling, mail — runs in fire-and-forget background threads. A slow external endpoint can never make the interface hang, and a failed side effect is logged rather than silently retried into inconsistency.
A3Operational considerations
Organisation-level settings, destructive actions, and connections are gated to owner and admin roles; recruiters operate the tool on the records they can see. Role changes apply on the next request — enforcement is at the route, not in the menu.
Scoring in the screening suite is deterministic and published: the same inputs produce the same outputs every time, hard requirements act as blockers rather than being averaged away, and no generative model invents a number — AI is used for extraction and drafting, humans decide. The methodology is public on the research page, where legal and data-science teams can interrogate it before buying.
Everything written is yours to take: CSV exports and the Data Export app cover the same stores the product itself reads. The exit is as open as the entrance — by design, not concession.
A4Interaction contract
The interface follows the platform's search-and-select convention: any field that names a real record — a candidate, client, or job — is a type-to-search picker over live data, never a free-typed string, which is what keeps activity trails and deduplication trustworthy. Static choices are filter-as-you-type combos rather than native dropdowns, and state transitions give explicit feedback: server confirmations surface as toasts, validation errors name the exact field, and nothing is shown as done that the server has not confirmed.
The wireframe and flow below document the structural contract of the surface — what panels exist, what order the states occur in, and what happens at every edge — rather than pixels. The layout is composed with native CSS grid and flexbox and adapts from wide desktop to a single column without separate mobile views.
Dependency map
Interface blueprint
Interaction flow — states, validations, feedback
Neighbouring tools — Screening & Evaluation
Frequently asked questions
How is Resume Score different from CMS Score?⌄
Does Resume Score tell me what to fix on my CV?⌄
Can recruiters use this to screen applicants, not just candidates checking their own CV?⌄
Does this count against my CMS Score monthly limit?⌄
At a glance
- Available from the free 14-day Trial plan upward, no card required
- Cosine-similarity vector matching, not an LLM call
- Included: 100 to 25,000 checks per month, scaling by plan tier
- Flags specific missing terms, not just a bare score
- Separate quota from CMS Score — doesn't touch that allowance
- Powers the first pass behind Bulk Resume Screen
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