Methodology
An evidence based estimate of how convincingly your CV matches one specific job, built from experience, skills and candidate value.
Interview Score compares your CV with one specific job description and scores three factors: experience, skills and candidate value. Each factor is judged on evidence already in your CV, a project, a result, a tool used in context, not on whether a keyword is present. It is an evidence based estimate of how convincingly your application matches this role. It cannot guarantee an interview, and it never invents experience, skills or achievements you didn't provide.
A CV that reads well on its own can still be a poor match for a specific role, and a CV that looks unremarkable in general can be a strong match for the right one. Recruiters don't score CVs in isolation, they judge each application against the job in front of them. MyRecruiterCheck works the same way: every check requires both your CV and the job description, and the score, Strengths, Areas to Improve and Prospects are specific to that pairing.
The scorecard also assumes the toughest realistic competition. For many openings the strongest candidate is an internal one who already has inside knowledge of the team, the systems and the way decisions get made. An external application wins by bringing evidence an insider cannot match, and your score reads your CV with that bar in mind.
Whether your background is at the level and scope this specific role needs. For early career candidates, relevant internships, academic projects, and coursework can count alongside paid roles, provided the CV describes what was actually done.
Assessed across three checks: evidence of having applied the relevant skill in practice, the skill itself being applied at the level the role needs, and measurable results from that work.
Whether the tools and skills the job description asks for are shown with evidence, a project, a result, a specific context, rather than only appearing in a skills list.
Assessed across four checks: coverage of the essential skills the job asks for, evidence those skills were actually applied, familiarity with the specific tools and platforms named, and relevant certifications where the role calls for them.
Whether there is a clear, specific reason to interview you over another applicant with a similar background, based on what your CV actually demonstrates.
Assessed across four checks: overall fit with the role, a clear value proposition for why you specifically, how clearly your CV communicates technical work, and how well the CV itself is structured.
A CV can contain every keyword from a job description and still fail to convince a recruiter, because a keyword only shows that a word is present, not that the skill behind it is real or relevant at the level the role needs. MyRecruiterCheck looks for evidence: a specific project, a measurable result, a tool used in a real context. Two CVs that list the same skills can receive different scores depending on whether those skills are actually demonstrated.
Your score rises when your CV describes specific, verifiable evidence for the skills and experience the job asks for, in context, not just as a listed keyword. A CV that only claims a skill without showing where it was used gets partial credit at best.
One rule can override everything else: if the job description names a genuinely critical requirement and your CV shows no matching evidence for it, your score is capped below the "Needs Improvement" threshold, regardless of how strong the rest of your application is. This reflects how a recruiter actually screens, a single missing must have can rule an application out even when everything else looks good.
MyRecruiterCheck is built for candidates with 0 to 5 years of experience, including people applying with academic projects, internships, bootcamp work, or a career change into tech, AI, machine learning or data. None of that is scored differently just because it isn't a full time job title. What matters is whether the CV describes what was actually built, analyzed or delivered, and connects it to the skills and experience level the job description asks for. A well described personal project can carry more weight than a job title with no detail behind it.
Interview Score is calculated fresh from whatever is currently in your CV and the job description you provided, it is not a fixed rating of you as a candidate. Adding specific evidence for your weakest factor, most often candidate value, is usually what moves the score the most, because it gives the recruiter a clearer reason to choose you.
MyRecruiterCheck operates from the Netherlands and is the data controller for your personal data under the GDPR. Your original uploaded CV and any documents generated for you are automatically and permanently deleted from our storage within 24 hours of being processed. Job description text is stored only temporarily and is deleted once it's been used to run a check, or after 48 hours at the latest. Your CV and job description are used only to generate your results and are never used to train models. Full details, including your rights under the GDPR, are in our Privacy Policy.
A CV that reads well in general can still fail to show the exact experience, skills and evidence a specific job asks for. Comparing against one job description lets MyRecruiterCheck evaluate relevance and evidence the way a recruiter actually reads an application, against that one role, not a generic standard.
A keyword is a word that appears in your CV. A skill is you claiming it. Experience is saying you used it. Evidence is showing where and how you used it: a project it was used on, a result it produced, a scale it operated at. Interview Score is built from evidence, so two CVs that list the same keywords can still receive different scores based on what actually backs them up.
When your result is Needs Improvement and your check finds one important evidence gap, you can answer a single optional question about it. If your answer is specific and relevant, MyRecruiterCheck reassesses your application once and updates your score and feedback in place, so your report always shows one score. Your score can go up or stay the same, and it never goes down. What you write is self reported, so it is weighed with more caution than evidence in your CV, and a general claim such as "I am good at Python" does not raise your score. It is available while your uploaded CV still exists, because uploads are deleted within 24 hours.
MyRecruiterCheck evaluates whatever evidence is actually in your CV. For early career candidates and career changers, that often means academic projects, internships, personal projects, and transferable experience from a different field, as long as the CV describes them specifically rather than listing them as bare headings.
Interview Score is recalculated from what is currently written in your CV. Adding specific, credible evidence for whichever factor was weakest, most often candidate value, typically produces the biggest change.
No. An ATS keyword score typically counts whether words from the job description appear somewhere in your CV. Interview Score evaluates whether your experience, skills and value are genuinely demonstrated with evidence, which is closer to how a recruiter reads a CV after it clears keyword screening.
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