By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
I’m not a fan of applying through ATS. But if you have to, here’s what to do.
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Hello! I’m Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter, and I’m not a big fan of applying for jobs through the applicant’s tracking systems, but sometimes you insist in people to do so. So I will give you some advice if you are foolish enough to ignore my other advice and do it anyway. So if you need to apply, if you choose to apply for a job through an applicant’s tracking system, don’t do these things.
I will repeat, do not do these things. First of all, do not send pdf. The reason is the applicant’s tracking systems do not have a standard way to decipher a PDF.
So what they tend to do is try to extract information from the document and provide a summary that is the basis for how to get the one they choose to interview. So with PDFs that are an atypical format for most systems, they make errors. When they make mistakes you will be rejected.
So number one, do not use a pdf. Number two, no tables, no graphics. Again, there are problems with how atypical graphics and tables are treated.
It hurts and thus you are rejected. Send as long as a resume as you will at this point, but acknowledge that what you did back in the Stone Age doesn’t matter to most employers. Yes, the data may be there, but even if you come in front of the person, you will be rejected on the basis that this is old information.
So if you have to go more thoroughly and it is the key word, no longer, thoroughly, does it, but recognizes that the older the information, the less attractive it is for an employer. I am told that the way you feel your work experience is to call it work experience that systems like that language because it is like a key to them what to look for. Professional experience, not the language it wants.
Work experience is the language it wants. In the end, this is a formatting of these systems. I just want to make sure I will read it from the screen.
The way you format it is that you start with employer name, your title and date. So not the other way around. You do not start with your title and go out to the page that the employer names under it.
You will start with employer name because the system is looking for it, and then your title and then date and the system can extract it very easily. So if you have to, that’s how you do it and if you still insist on doing it your way, I just want to say you make a big mistake. I also have another video that I did about the applicant’s tracking systems that give you good formatting on how to make it easy for these systems, and I really think ATS by making your real experience ready.
Then look for that video on YouTube or on my website. I think you find it very useful. This is Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter.
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