While the software continues to improve, you need to make sure you have an ATS -
friendly version of your resume.
Ladders has what we call a «parser» that knows how to find things without a map and when it finds them it provides these «tags» and creates a new, search engine -
friendly version of your resume.
You should only use the robot -
friendly version of your resume when you are sending it to a large organization or a recruitment agency.
Not exact matches
They include a Facebook ad and an ATS -
friendly plain text
version of your
resume for Notepad.
An ATS -
friendly resume is a barely formatted text
version, that needs to contain enough
of the right keywords searched to call up the
resume for a particular job.
Keep in mind that at the executive level you should have several
versions of your
resume ready to go: a human - eye -
friendly resume for applying in person, via email, or at networking opportunities....