Your resume:
What you don’t know CAN hurt you!
A question to ask yourself about your resume:
Will my resume pass an ATS screening gate designed to thin the herd?
“AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.” - Elon Musk, speaking to the National Governors Association on the subject of Artificial Intelligence.
So what exactly is an ATS gate, and why should I even care?
ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) powered by Artificial Intelligence are seeking to develop a profile on every person on the planet. LinkedIn for example currently has over 760 million members, all of whom are subject to targeting by ATS.
The hiring landscape has changed dramatically over the past five years and certainly over the past year in the face of COVID19. The vast majority of today’s employers are using (and benefiting) from ATS and virtually 100% of today’s recruiters access ATS in one form or another.
... and here's why you should care!
So, is this a good thing, or a bad thing? In terms of rapid identification of potential job candidates, there is this: Resumes designed to sync with an employer’s job requirements have the potential to keep the best candidate from the job offer, or from even being interviewed!
How could that be? Consider this: According to Glassdoor, the average cost to hire one employee is $4129. If you’re an employer looking for the very best candidate, and you’re starting with a stack of 1000 resumes, you are facing about 4 weeks just for manual review. Meanwhile, the position remains unfilled and the employer suffers.
ATS can reduce this initial review time from weeks to only a few minutes. The best 10 resumes (according to their ATS score) are selected for human review and the remaining 990 resumes are removed from consideration.
What if the resumes selected were pre-tuned to score very high with ATS even though the candidates’ other attributes were deficient? Will the hiring manager actually be interviewing the ten best candidates? Probably not.
How do you expect to be interviewed if ATS has prevented the hiring manager from seeing your resume?
How do you expect to be interviewed if ATS has prevented the hiring manager from seeing your resume?
The suggestion here is NOT to cheat ATS in order to earn an interview slot over a better-qualified candidate. The key takeaway is if you have not prepared your resume to play nice with ATS, your chances of being interviewed will decline sharply even if YOU are the best candidate!
Consider this: Some employers use ATS to screen, review, select, and then set the actual interview appointment with the hiring manager without any human interaction! This means the human interviewer may be meeting the lucky candidates and actually seeing their resume for the first time during the interview!
Limited Time Offer If you would like to know how likely your resume is to make it past the ATS gate, (and how to fix it) send your resume and a link to a job you are both qualified for and would be excited to have, and I will do a free, in-depth, human resume analysis and a complete automated ATS scan with score!
Limited Time Offer If you would like to know how likely your resume is to make it past the ATS gate, (and how to fix it) send your resume and a link to a job you are both qualified for and would be excited to have, and I will do a free, in-depth, human resume analysis and a complete automated ATS scan with score!
This offer is only good until such time my workflow overwhelms my ability to keep up!
Just send your resume to my personal email: fasthorses1964@gmail.com
Prepare to be surprised!