Are you one of the victims of polishing your CV for the nth time and applying for your dream jobs but ending up with no response from the recruiters? I can understand how frustrating it can be. But the simple step of learning the way recruiters look at your CV to shortlist and addressing the problem can turn the odds in your favour.

In case you are wondering why you are ending up with no callback from recruiters although you have all the matching skills and experience and after all, going through hundreds of guides on how to make the best CV.

It is because recruiters may not be even looking at your CV as it was thrown out by Application Tracking System tools (ATS) before even reaching the eyes of recruiters.

Simply put ATS tools are bots that act as gatekeepers between you and recruiters.

75% of resumes are never read by a human — CNBC[1]

Why Companies Use ATS In The First Place?

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the demand in the software industry increased exponentially in recent years and so the recruitment process became so stressful that they are forced to adapt and use different tools to filter out the applicants.

“Google gets around 3 million applications a year now, according to HR head Laszlo Bock, and hires 7,000. That means only one in 428 applicants end up with a job, making it far more selective than institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Stanford”. — Quartz[2]

At the moment there are over 98% of Fortune 500 companies use Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

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