What ATS Scores Reveal About Modern Resumes
What ATS Scores Reveal About Modern Resumes | APTI Careers Most mid sized and large companies now run every incoming resume through an applicant tracking system before a human ever looks at it. The system scans the document, compares it against the job description, and spits out some version of a match score. Candidates have become obsessed with beating this score, and entire businesses now exist just to help people optimize for it. But what does an ATS score actually tell a recruiter, and what does the growing obsession with it reveal about the state of resumes today? What an ATS score is actually measuring At a basic level, most applicant tracking systems are doing keyword matching. They scan the resume text for terms that appear in the job description, sometimes with some weighting for where those terms appear, and generate a score based on overlap. Some more advanced systems also check f...