The structural choices that matter
Single-column layout in reading order. Standard section headings. Consistent date formats beside each role. Contact details in the body rather than a header or footer. Real selectable text in every export. Plain bullet points instead of tables and columns.
Keywords, used honestly
The employer's terminology is used where it genuinely describes your work, in the role where you did it. Skills you have not demonstrated are not added to make a document match better — recruiters read these documents too, and an unexplained skills list is a liability.
What we do not claim
There is no universal ATS score, and no format guarantees that a person will read your application. KnowUnit describes documents as ATS-friendly — structured so parsers are unlikely to mangle them. Any match figure you see in the workspace is KnowUnit's own internal analysis, not an employer's score.