With a record 10 million open jobs per the June, 2021 government report, hiring companies can’t afford to continue eliminating good candidates. The good news is that corporate America is waking up to the idiosyncrasies of ATS. Some companies use resume-gap scanning which can also eliminate you as a candidate. Why? The ATS runs off the job spec those are the keywords it is looking for.Īlso, if possible, try to avoid having employment gaps on your resume. If you find a job you’re really interested in, besides using the tactics above, carefully review the job description and make sure that your resume mirrors the same language as the job spec. The statistics show that job candidate resumes passed by internal employees gives you a 10X better chance of getting the job than if it is submitted electronically or comes off a printer. Network your way into the company and find an employee who will forward your resume to the hiring manager. That also means instead of spending your time making your resume look pretty, you can invest more time in creating solid, bullet point accomplishments with metrics.Īnother system hack is to avoid ATS all together. Boring is beautiful when it comes to ATS. If you’re thinking ‘sounds like my resume is going to look pretty boring’ you’re right. No tables, columns, or text boxes: They can really mess up the accuracy of ATS software. Bolding text is fine if it’s in the same family (e.g., Arial and Arial Bold)ĥ. ATS can misinterpret them as page breaks so your 2-page resume may appear to be 7 or 8 pages long.Ĥ. The ATS system can misinterpret italics and create typos in the system.ģ. New Times Roman, although popular, looks older and isn’t as easy to read as the other options listed.Ģ. The best fonts for resumes are Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, Gill Sans / Light, and Georgia. So, how do you avoid being rejected by ATS?ġ. They may never have received it or reviewed it!)
(Now you know one reason why you might not hear from a company after sending them your resume. In fact, ATS has excluded 10 million workers from potential employment and, according to a Harvard survey, 99% of Fortune 500 companies and 75% of the 760 U.S.
Only one problem: Great looking resumes may be rejected by Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and eliminate you as a candidate, even before the hiring company had a chance to see your resume. Great! You buff and polish your resume, so the content is not only good with quantified achievements, but the formatting also looks spectacular with different fonts, tables, and lines to separate sections.
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