Is your resume ATS Friendly? Find out by these 2 untold Analyzation Tips

Hey Newbie Job Venator... Is your Resume ATS Friendly? Oh, Crap! Don't ask like a noob what's an ATS; In this newsletter, you will learn what's ATS and How to write an ATS Friendly resume through 2 untold Analyzation tips recruiters usually never tell anyone.

Let’s dive into this week’s newsletter…

Before we determine your resume is “ATS Friendly” first we will make sure to apply these five professional resume-writing practices to your document:

1. Avoid placing important details like your contact information in the header or footer of your resume document.
2. Less is more when it comes to your resume format. Stick to a simple, clean resume design that doesn’t include embedded charts, images, or unusual fonts.
3. Steer clear of right-hand columns. If you plan to use a resume design that incorporates columns, opt for a left-hand rail or column. Unfortunately, resumes with a right-hand rail or column do not successfully pass through the ATS tools.
4. Customize your resume with relevant keywords. Identify the important resume keywords found in the specific job listings that interest you and utilize them throughout, particularly in the “Key Skills” and “Work Experience” sections.
5. Save your resume as a Word document file type. Unfortunately, there are still some ATS resume scanning platforms that cannot convert PDF, HTML, Open Office, or Apple Pages documents and will discard resumes that are saved in such document formats.

How to analyze your resume against an applicant tracking system (ATS)?

There are two pro ways to crack the ATS test and optimize your resume to be properly interpreted by an applicant tracking system.

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Resume Analyzation 1: Save your resume in plain text

Applicant tracking systems have trouble reading embedded tables, symbols, charts, images, and other fancy design elements. In many cases, the ATS software that companies use will either skip over the information contained in those graphics or return it as a bunch of gibberish. In either case, important information will be left out of your application entry in the system and hurt your candidacy.

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To determine what information may become garbled or eliminated when passed through the ATS scans, save a copy of your resume as plain text and then review the result. If the plain text version of your resume is missing details from your original resume, has some of its characters saved incorrectly, or looks disorganized (i.e. the heading for your work history appears in the middle of your key skills section), then your resume did not pass the ATS resume screening software test.

Resume Analyzation 2: Request a free ATS scan

Request a free ATS Scan on Professional resume-writing services which offers job seekers a free ATS resume scan as part of its free resume review. Among those Jobscan provides an objective look at what your resume is doing well and where it is missing the mark from both a content and design perspective.

Jobscan also will enlighten you on the information an ATS will pull from your resume, what information it will be unable to identify and retrieve (such as your name, contact information, most recent job title, and most recent employer), and what top skills and keywords your resume currently ranks for.

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If the ATS resume scanner is unable to identify any of this important information or thinks you’re a fit for a job that you’re not, then your resume did not pass the ATS readability test and runs the risk of not getting in the hands of hiring managers or recruiters and runs the risk of not getting in the hands of hiring managers or recruiters.

In the next newsletter topic, I’ll insight you on “How to write a killer resume to beat the ATS?” Until that, you keep learning job hunting skills everywhere on LinkedIn.

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