Why 75% of Resumes Never Reach a Human Recruiter
Why 75% of Resumes Never Reach a Human Recruiter | APTI Careers Candidates spend hours polishing a resume, hit submit, and then wait. Most never hear back at all, and a huge share of those resumes never actually get read by a person. Depending on the source, estimates put the number of resumes filtered out before any human review somewhere around three out of every four. At APTI Careers, we build AI-powered hiring tools and spend a lot of time inside this exact part of the funnel, so we see firsthand why the gap between applying and being seen has gotten this wide. The volume problem nobody planned for A single job posting on a major platform can pull in hundreds of applications within days, sometimes within hours for popular roles. A recruiter managing several open positions at once simply cannot read every resume by hand and still do the rest of their job. This is not laziness or indi...