Ats Resume Formatting

Use this skill whenever a resume needs to be formatted, reviewed, or debugged for upload to Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS, or any other ATS (applicant tracking system). Trigger on requests like "format my resume for ATS," "is my resume ATS-friendly," "why is Workday leaving fields blank," "clean up my resume for online applications," or "make my resume parse-safe." Also trigger proactively any time a user is building or editing a resume that will be uploaded to a job portal, even if they don't mention "ATS" by name — most resume-formatting requests have this failure mode lurking under the

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add msdanyg/ats-resume-skill --skill ats-resume-formatting

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/msdanyg/ats-resume-skill.git /tmp/ats-resume-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/ats-resume-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/ats-resume-formatting

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# ATS / Workday Parse-Safe Resume Formatting

## Why this exists

Workday and most ATS platforms don't show a recruiter your PDF or DOCX. They convert it to plain text, strip the layout, and run **named-entity recognition (NER)** to segment each experience block into structured fields: Job Title / Company / Start Date / End Date / Description. The recruiter searches and screens those parsed fields — not the file you uploaded.

**A resume that reads perfectly to a human can still leave a required field blank in the system of record.** When that happens, the candidate frequently doesn't get filtered — they simply never surface in recruiter search. It looks identical to silence, but it's a formatting bug, not a rejection.

This is the single most common, least-visible way a strong candidate loses to a weaker one: not worse experience, a worse parse.

### The two-stage parse (true of Workday's engine and most third-party parsers — Textkernel, RChilli, Daxtra)

1. **Ingestion** — file → raw plain text, layout stripped, read strictly top to bottom.
2. **Entity extraction** — each block segmented into Title / Company / Dates / Description. If extraction fails, the field is either blank or filled with the wrong text — and a blank required field can mean the application doesn't route into recruiter search at all.

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Details

Skill name: ats-resume-formatting
Repository: msdanyg/ats-resume-skill
License: MIT
Repo updated: 9 July 2026

FAQ

What does the Ats Resume Formatting skill do?

How do I install the Ats Resume Formatting skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add msdanyg/ats-resume-skill --skill ats-resume-formatting. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

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It lives in msdanyg/ats-resume-skill, which has 5 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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