Finally got my resume past the ATS filter after 3 months of tweaking it

I kept getting rejected from entry level analyst jobs until a friend told me to stop using tables and graphics cause the software can't read them. Has anyone else dealt with this issue and found a way to make your resume both human friendly and machine readable?

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nathan_hill6013d ago

Honestly, I feel your pain on this one. The whole "human friendly vs. machine readable" thing is such a frustrating balancing act. I wasted like two months sending out resumes with fancy columns and icons before someone told me the same thing about the ATS software just glitching out on them. Ngl, the trick that finally worked for me was using a plain single-column layout with standard section headers like "Work Experience" and "Education" - nothing fancy. Tbh, I think companies are making it harder than it needs to be when they rely on these buggy systems to screen people.

amyh2113d ago

Oh man, it's wild how we've built a world where you gotta trick a computer just to get a human to look at your stuff. It's like the whole system's set up backwards, you know?

charliehill12d ago

I read somewhere that some ATS software strips out all formatting. Keep it dead simple.