In today’s remote ready work world, qualified candidates are available around the globe to digitally tap into immediate, current and future opportunities. It’s a competitive job market, and job seekers must ensure their resume evolves with employer expectations if they want their skills and experience to be considered.
Because only 75 per cent of resumes get past the robots that first scan them for contextual relevance – before delivering the selected ones into the inbox of a hiring manager or recruiter.
They’re called Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and they’re reason why even the most qualified of job seekers aren’t hearing back on their applications – if your resume isn’t SEO’d with keywords from the job description, it won’t be read by the robot!
However, once a resume has been tailored to the job description to appease the ATS, it still must appeal to the hiring manager or recruiter reading it – and they have separate yet similar expectations.