UK Recruitment Glossary
ATS (Applicant Tracking System)
In recruiter context
Workday, Greenhouse, Taleo, iCIMS and SmartRecruiters are the ones I see most. The ATS is what reads your CV first, before any human does. If your CV is a two-column PDF with text in image form, the ATS often can't parse it and you get filtered out before a recruiter ever sees you. That's why ATS-friendly formatting matters more than design flair.
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