21. "ATS Score is a Myth" - The Truth about Resume Tailoring with Sam Wright from Huntr

About this episode

Erika interviews Sam Wright about the myths surrounding ATS scores and effective resume strategies based on data from Huntr.

In this episode, Erika interviews Sam Wright, Head of Career Strategy for Huntr, an AI-powered tool for the job search. While the job search often lacks data to inform your decisions, Huntr is actually able to analyze what they've seen in the 1.7 million job applications across 60,000 searches in their tool. We get into which job boards produce the best application to interview conversion rates, why ATS scores are a myth, and what a good resume actually looks like. We also discuss why the une...

People in this episode

Host: Erika Parker Price

Guest: Sam Wright

Topics covered

• resume tailoring
• job search
• ATS scores
• career strategy
• application conversion rates

Keywords

• ATS score
• resume
• job applications
• career strategy
• job boards

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Huntr

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