Getting your resume past the gatekeepers to get an interview is a top priority if you are job-seeking. In the past, that just meant crafting a well-written resume that described your experience, ...

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Applicant Tracking Systems. Everybody hates them, including most of the people who use them to hire everybody else. They’re counterintuitive, they prevent interpersonal interaction, and nobody can say ...

While applicant tracking systems are "vital" to the work of recruiters, ATS algorithms could be responsible for excluding whole segments of viable candidates, according to a report from the Harvard ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rod Samra, a former US Department of Labor investigator of more than two decades, who lives in Florida. His identity has been verified. This story ...

Applying to jobs online is like navigating a maze. Amids the special torture that is résumé-parsing software, the inability to reuse information across different application tracking systems (ATS), ...

In 2025, hiring is no longer about simply collecting resumes and scheduling interviews. The rapid rise of AI-powered applicant tracking systems (ATS) has transformed recruitment into a data-driven, ...

Let’s start with your pet peeves. Understandably, you don’t like wasting time, getting no feedback, being broadly categorized, or left dazed and confused. Yeah, it’s also hard to not wonder where in ...