PIKA RESUME — STATE OF RESUMES MEDIA ANGLE
Angle ID: section-patterns
Title: Different resume sections show different diagnostic patterns
Audience: Resume-writing and early-career editors

Snapshot timestamp: 2026-10-31T13:01:14.138Z
Methodology reviewed: September 12, 2026 (2026-09-12)
Coverage: 2026-05-04T14:21:44.032Z to 2026-10-31T13:01:06.870Z
Unit of analysis: successful_ats_diagnostic_scan; repeat scans may be included.
Eligible scans are completed Pika diagnostics scored 1–100, non-deleted and non-watermarked. Counts are not one unique person, document, application, or outcome. Repeat scans and document or job-description variants may be included.
Minimum reportable sample: 30 scans. Rates, averages, and profiles below this floor are withheld.

CITATION-READY FINDING
Pika marked 85.6% of 9,952 eligible scans as a clean pass for Contact & Personal Details, and 1.3% of 8,175 for Work Experience.

EVIDENCE
- Contact & Personal Details clean pass: 85.6%; n=9,952.
- Work Experience clean pass: 1.3%; n=8,175.

METRIC-SPECIFIC DENOMINATORS
- Contact & Personal Details rates: 9,952 recent eligible successful scans containing that section.
- Work Experience rates: 8,175 recent eligible successful scans containing that section.

PUBLIC JSON SOURCE FIELDS
- aggregateData.sectionFailRates[name="Contact & Personal Details"].passPct
- aggregateData.sectionFailRates[name="Contact & Personal Details"].sampleSize
- aggregateData.sectionFailRates[name="Work Experience"].passPct
- aggregateData.sectionFailRates[name="Work Experience"].sampleSize
- aggregateData.meta.profileSampleLimit

LIMITATIONS
Each section has its own eligible sample; this is not a paired comparison. Section flags cannot establish skills, employability, or the reason for a warning.
Section and check-profile metrics use the latest eligible successful scans, capped at 10,000; the published sample for each metric is its relevant denominator. The checks profile further requires all eight canonical checks.
Self-selected successful Pika ATS diagnostic scans; repeat scans and variants may be included, so counts are not unique people, documents, or applications. The data is not representative of every applicant, employer, or ATS.
Pika diagnostic scores and flags do not measure employer rejection, callbacks, interviews, or hiring outcomes. No country- or role-specific result is claimed.
Scores reflect the Pika rubric in use when each scan ran. Until scoring versions are stored with historical results, score trends are product telemetry and must not be treated as comparable evidence of labour-market change.
Published percentages are rounded; zero displayed percentages must not be interpreted as exact zero counts.

EDITORIAL ASK
Discuss section-specific flags without treating different cohorts as a paired comparison.

CITATION
Pika Resume. “Resume Statistics & ATS Score Benchmarks 2026: The State of Resumes.” Updated October 31, 2026. Aggregate dataset of 226,923 successful Pika ATS diagnostic scans. https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes

SOURCE AND ASSETS
Study: https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes
JSON: https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes/data.json
CSV: https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes/data.csv
Chart: https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes/charts/section-patterns.svg
Methodology: https://pikaresume.com/research-methodology

PUBLISHER DISCLOSURE
Pika Resume publishes this first-party product-diagnostic dataset and sells resume tools. This is not an independent audit of employer ATS systems.
Media contact: support@pikaresume.com
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