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The ATS won't judge a resume, but it will parse it and display in an easier format for the recruiter to browse through. If your resume does not parse well (for
by mpeg 3y ago
The ATS won't judge a resume, but it will parse it and display in an easier format for the recruiter to browse through.
If your resume does not parse well (for example, a PDF with two columns can sometimes mean the right column text ends up above the left column text) the recruiter will have outdated / wrong information in front of them when they make the decision to do a screening call or not
I know because my cv had two columns for the longest time, and I kept getting recruiters call me "how's it going at <company I left 6 years ago>" and they had my latest cv
- digging 3y agoKinda seems idiotic that we're making PDFs of our resume data in the first place then. I know that's backwards historically, since paper resumes came first, but at this point it should just be a JSON file right? Let the hiring company's automation ingest the data and spit it out in whatever readable format they like.