[vthallam]

Its tough to prepare a universal format for all ATS to parse and if there is one, they would have been promoting that format all along.

Some ATS keep first name, last name, email as the only mandatory fields and in that case a basic resume where you keep the name as the first thing on top would work. But most of the others ask for your visa status, ethnicity and various other things, so that has to be manual work again.

As far as i know most of the resumes made in simple LaTeX have had more chances of getting parsed.

PS : ATS refers to Applicant tracking systems which many companies use to post jobs and track applicants and manage the hiring process.

[patio11]

FWIW: it is extraordinarily unlikely you will be asked your ethnicity during the job application process at any US employer. Universities, sure, all the time, because they intend to racially discriminate against disfavored groups. Employers who do that lose large lawsuits.

[citizens]

In my experience a lot of US job applications ask you to volunteer your ethnicity.

One example: Stripe asks if you're Hispanic/Latino: https://stripe.com/jobs/positions/engineer/apply .

[dragonwriter]

> it is extraordinarily unlikely you will be asked your ethnicity during the job application process at any US employer.

Untrue.

> Employers who do that lose large lawsuits.

Employers who ask it during the application process usually do it in a manner which allows the data to be tracked in aggregate but separated from the application through the hiring decision process, and retain clear documentation of this process and its execution so as to be able to defend themselves against any charges of inappropriate use of the information in hiring decisions.

Many employers are required to report this information in aggregate, but I'm not sure that they are the only ones who track it for their own information.

[noer]

Employers in the United States over a certain size (I think it's 50 employees, but i could be wrong) are required to report demographics of their applicants to the Federal Government. The responses must be voluntary and they cannot be tied to any specific applicant (so, they can't see that applicant A listed themselves as White and applicant B listed themselves as African-American).

[namelezz]

> It is extraordinarily unlikely you will be asked your ethnicity during the job application process at any US employer.

That's a big lie there.