To be fair most ATSs are really bad at parsing information in very unexpected ways. I used to have a pretty basic resume with two columns, basically plain text

To be fair most ATSs are really bad at parsing information in very unexpected ways. I used to have a pretty basic resume with two columns, basically plain text describing job experience and education in reverse chronological order and a narrow side column showing experience in languages and frameworks in a progress bar style to indicate proficiency/experience. Some of the application software of the “fill everything in regardless of resume” variety offered to upload resume and then auto populate, which is essentially a preview of the ATS parsing capabilities. It was perfectly capable of parsing the experience in languages etc, but would consistently fuckup the plain work history. Even recreating the resume in a simple no frills Word document would help. In these cases I was lucky I could manually input everything, but it did leave me very unimpressed.