
More than likely your job applications have never been seen by human eyes. Welcome to the 2017 job search where the task of pre-screening resumes has been outsourced to the company's latest digital resource, an Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
An ATS reads in a resume, scans for keywords and key phrases, then applies an algorithm to rate the applicant against all others and the top few applications are seen by a human being.
Many qualified candidates...