How many times have you heard that first step of getting a job interview is making past of the stage where HR glances at your resume and make split-second decision to forward you for next round of interviews or not.
But, how many of you know that a human’s hand touches your resume when it is moved forwarded after surviving an Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Read this article for a better understanding of the process.
What is Applicant Tracking System?
ATS is a recruitment solution that is responsible for handling the recruitment process especially by sorting thousands of CV and also determines the best fit. Applicant Tracking System works on a completely different criteria of selection. While human recruiters look for grounds of automatic rejection such as spelling or grammar, an ATS operate by searching resume via keywords.
Why Do Employers Use It?
ATS helps employers save time, paper and manual labor along with keeping them organized. Without an ATS recruiters will have to spend more time over searching, sorting and shredding papers/emails. With ATS in place there is no paper work, no risk of accidental deletion of candidate’s emails or resumes in queue to hire. An ATS makes it easy to track the hiring process and communication with the applicants. Gone are the days when these systems were used by larger organizations receiving thousands of resumes, but now they are also being used by smaller organizations looking for an efficient recruitment system.
How does an ATS work?
Applicant tracking system process resumes submitted by the applicants, stores it and maintains the database. The recruiter then search by keywords for a particular job opening. Resumes containing the keywords the employer wants, ranks higher in the ATS search. The keyword search generally includes skills, experiences related to a specific job opening. Recruiters can even search entire company database of the resume to look for the candidates with specific qualifications. This means even an old resume submitted long time ago with matching requirement can be identified by the ATS.
What about Social Media?
Recruiting is not possible without networking which is now highly dependable on social media. Today, having a sound social media presence helps when it comes to creating a brand awareness or job search. Company’s now-a-days focus on creating a socially acknowledged employment brand and job seekers understand the importance of creating a professional image on social media channels. When it comes to ATS, there is a social recruiting software that is responsible for crawling the web for specific keywords and one of the best way to get noticed is including basic details about your education, work experience and skills.
Search Engine Optimization
The process by which job seekers get their resumes noticed by an Applicant Tracking Software is similar to the process of search engine optimization (SEO). Similar to SEO, best way to get an ATS notice your resume is to include keywords recruiters are trying to search.
Research
One must always alter their resume specifically for each job application you submit, your resume should make clear ‘why you are a good candidate for a specific job’. Every employer is looking for certain qualification and you resume will not rank if it lacks functionalities being searched by the recruiter. Candidates needs to find what employers are looking for and include those in the resume.
Researching jobs ad optimizing your resume with keywords before applying for a job is best way to get ranked by the ATS and thus interviews.
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