Just found out most job apps get rejected by bots before a human sees them

I was reading a report from a hiring platform called Greenhouse the other day and it said that like 75% of resumes never get seen by a real person. They get filtered out by the ATS software based on keywords or formatting. So all that time I spent customizing my cover letter was basically pointless since the bot trashes it before anyone reads it. Has anyone else figured out how to actually beat those resume scanners?

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schmidt.eva1d ago

Oh come on, is it really that bad though? I have a buddy who works in HR and he says those ATS filters are way dumber than people think. Like they basically just scan for a few obvious keywords and if your resume format is messy. Most of the time a real person still glances at the ones that pass the basic checks before they get tossed. I feel like people online make it sound like a big scary robot apocalypse when really it's just a simple filter that a lot of companies barely even use right. Unless you're applying to some huge corporate job with thousands of apps, a real human is probably still reading yours. Don't overthink it too much.