2.1Job Read
When you paste a posting, ArcLens reads it before your background enters the picture. This is the Job Read — a clean analysis of the job on its own terms, with no anchoring to your Career History.
What the Job Read surfaces isn't a list of required qualifications. It's a read on what the job actually demands: the real problem it was created to solve, the organizational posture it sits in, what the hiring manager is likely worried about getting wrong, and what success looks like at 90 and 180 days. Job postings are written by committees under constraints — they often say one thing and mean another. The Job Read is designed to work underneath that.
The distinction matters because most candidates read job postings the wrong way — scanning the requirements list and pattern-matching against their résumé. The Job Read inverts that. It asks: what is this job actually for, and what kind of hire does it need? That question produces a different picture than a checklist match.
The Job Read runs once per posting and is shared across users. If someone else has already submitted that posting, you're reading the same analysis. This keeps the system fast and avoids redundant processing for identical postings.
The Job Read is available to you before you add your résumé or run a full Fit Read. Reading it on its own is useful: it tells you what questions to be prepared for, what the job is really weighted toward, and whether the stated requirements are the actual requirements.
2.2Scoring
Scoring is where your Career History meets the Job Read. Once both are in, ArcLens produces a Fit Read and its Composite — a signal of how well your evidence covers what the job demands.
The score runs across multiple dimensions: your domain coverage, the weight of your evidence in areas the job emphasizes, and how well your career trajectory aligns with what the hiring manager expects to see at this level. These dimensions are weighted based on what the Job Read identified as central to the job — not what the posting listed first.
The number you see is a composite signal, not a gate. A 72 with clear gaps in the right areas is more useful information than a 79 with no visibility into where you stand. Use the score directionally — it tells you roughly where in the pile you'd land — but the Fit Read tells you what to do about it.
ArcLens résumés typically score in the 80–85% range on external ATS checkers. That's a design outcome, not a number to chase. See After the Gate for why chasing a higher score works against you.
Scoring runs automatically when you submit a posting with an active Lens. You don't need to trigger it separately. The score updates if you switch Lenses — the same Career History can produce meaningfully different scores against the same job depending on the Lens you score it through.