It may not be that you weren’t qualified, but that your resume wasn’t qualified, according to the applicant tracking system, or ATS. The first person to read your resume … isn’t a person at all! An applicant tracking system, or ATS, is software that weeds out job candidates that either don’t fit the description or had an unreadable resume. Forty-three percent of resumes are sent as an incompatible file type, and not every ATS can read PDF. If you want to check to see if your resume is readable to an ATS, go to www.topresume.com/resume-review for a free analysis.

She says the most impactful need these five things:Your contact information should be right at the top on the front page of your resume. Your “value proposition" is "basically the value that you are going to bring to the hiring manager,” explained Emanuel. After reading your resume, the hiring manager should be able to answer these three questions:Can you do the job? “Hiring managers and recruiters really don’t read a resume,” Emanuel confessed. She said you should ask three to five people to proof your resume to look for typos and errors before you send it out.