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by gs17 1 hour ago
I'm a little confused, is this an ATS system that anyone actually uses? If not, I'm not sure how it's better than just asking ChatGPT to score your resume out of 100. Why would you want to optimize your resume for a system no one is using to score it?
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I would assume at least hackerrank is?

I don’t think the point of a lot of this is to optimize your resume. It’s to show how arbitrary these systems are.

“I'm a little confused, is this an ATS system that anyone actually uses?”

You read my mind. If the answer is “no”, then we can ignore this.

(Almost) everyone’s using some kind of ATS, every ATS is adding AI auto-ranking (and has been trying to for 15 years), and almost all HR people feel like they have too many obviously bad CVs to read. Whether or not someone is using this ATS specifically, if you submit several CVs to several places, your CV is going into at least one magical 8-ball.