The odds are clearly stacked against you, even when you are highly qualified for the job you’re applying to. But now a company called ResumeterPro has introduced a simple and effective tool that is specifically designed to review your resume. Seconds after you upload your resume to the system, it reviews it with an eye to what the applicant tracking systems are looking for, and offers both a score for success and concrete recommendations for what steps you need to take to improve.
Applicant tracking systems, or ATS, were designed in response to the influx of resumes that web-based application systems introduced. Where recruiters once posted jobs in newspapers and received a few dozen or perhaps even hundreds of resumes to review, today a single posting can mean tens of thousands of resumes flooding in daily, many of which are from people who are nowhere near qualified for the position to which they are applying. The ATS were designed to screen those inappropriate resumes out, but in the course of designing the software developers have included roadblocks that mean that highly qualified applicants are also screened out.
ResumeterPro’s creators have assembled the criteria from all the major ATS programs. When a resume is uploaded onto their system, it is quickly analyzed for each of these factors, and in a matter of seconds provides a score indicating the probability of the resume reaching a live person. Where a resume falls short, the system provides constructive suggestions for improvements that need to be made, including making corrections to formatting, grammar, job description, and length.
ResumeterPro is the first program of its type to provide job applicants with this valuable service, and they provide it at no cost to job seekers. Using ResumeterPro, applicants are able to move beyond the subjective and get concrete answers as to what improvements they can make to increase their chances of landing that all-important interview opportunity.
