Resume clears every ATS checker I throw at it and I still hear nothing back
Ran it through three different scanners, matched keywords, right format, no tables or headers that supposedly confuse parsers. Ninety-plus score every time. Sixty applications, four responses, none past a first screen. At what point is the ATS advice just noise and the actual problem is somewhere else entirely?
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AnonymousAnon Adding to the referral point, I switched from cold applying to spending that same time getting two coffee chats a week instead and my response rate went up more from that than any resume rewrite did.
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AnonymousAnon Have you had anyone outside an ATS tool actually read it? The scanners check keyword match, not whether the story it tells makes sense to a human skimming for six seconds.
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AnonymousAnon Sixty applications and four responses sounds less like an ATS problem and more like a network/referral problem honestly. Cold applications convert at a pretty grim rate no matter how clean the resume is.