I tried to do something similar a while ago (for eng hiring specifically). It turned out that the number of grammatical errors and typos mattered way more than

I tried to do something similar a while ago (for eng hiring specifically). It turned out that the number of grammatical errors and typos mattered way more than anything else on a resume. http://blog.alinelerner.com/lessons-from-a-years-worth-of-hiring-data/ http://blog.alinelerner.com/lessons-from-a-years-worth-of-hi... That aside, what sucks is that attempts to automate resume scoring rarely look at harder-to-quantify features and focus on low-hanging fruit like keyword occurrences... though in my experience it's such a low-signal document for engineering hiring that the whole thing is a fool's errand.