ATS are imperfect, biased, and can arbitrarily kill your chances of getting seen by a real human. This article presents the ways to game the system that can give you a fair chance.
According to one of my resources, there are 599 ATS systems. When I wrote a chapter in a book about this in 2016 (on my LI profile), there were over 200. Technology has changed things! I agree with much of this article and have opinions about a few items, so we can agree to disagree. No matter what, make networking a habit to avoid the ATS. Otherwise, you can play the game to game the game somewhat! I usually do a workshop on this topic every other month. Here's an article with more tips: https://greatcareers.org/how-to-avoid-the-applicant-tracking-system-black-hole-ats/
there is no such thing as an ATS bias!! real life recruiters read resumes. The only time a resume is rejected without being seen is from the questions that are asked such as location, and or other criteria that requires input from the candidates. Stop blaming the software. You cannot change your résumé to get past some AI system. That's a myth.
No. Numerous studies have shown ATS bias that eliminate candidates before they’re ever seen by recruiters. There have also been very public examples of this happening (for example - ATS removing people from HBCU’s before they’re seen by humans). Yes recruiters still are the ones making eventual decisions but the whole point is that the system filters candidates before recruiters are even involved. Again - there is data showing that we know that qualified candidates are filtered out. So no.
According to one of my resources, there are 599 ATS systems. When I wrote a chapter in a book about this in 2016 (on my LI profile), there were over 200. Technology has changed things! I agree with much of this article and have opinions about a few items, so we can agree to disagree. No matter what, make networking a habit to avoid the ATS. Otherwise, you can play the game to game the game somewhat! I usually do a workshop on this topic every other month. Here's an article with more tips: https://greatcareers.org/how-to-avoid-the-applicant-tracking-system-black-hole-ats/
there is no such thing as an ATS bias!! real life recruiters read resumes. The only time a resume is rejected without being seen is from the questions that are asked such as location, and or other criteria that requires input from the candidates. Stop blaming the software. You cannot change your résumé to get past some AI system. That's a myth.
No. Numerous studies have shown ATS bias that eliminate candidates before they’re ever seen by recruiters. There have also been very public examples of this happening (for example - ATS removing people from HBCU’s before they’re seen by humans). Yes recruiters still are the ones making eventual decisions but the whole point is that the system filters candidates before recruiters are even involved. Again - there is data showing that we know that qualified candidates are filtered out. So no.