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kind of wild that a resume can look perfect and still be a picture as far as the computer is concerned. scanned pdf, flattened export, whatever. you see words, the parser sees an image. been thinking about this way too much lately

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@scottsandsmedia @Workday The upload is a prefill, not the record. Workday parses the file into those fields and recruiters search the fields, so whatever the parser got wrong is what they see. Worth fixing anything it filled in badly, especially titles and dates, instead of clicking past it.

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@gabriel_horwitz Worth adding for new grads: this works because a founder is reading. At larger companies the application questions get scored before anyone opens the cover letter, so the effort that pays there is answering those precisely, not writing a memorable letter.

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@jdubbnonna Even when the PDF goes, check how pandoc laid out the text. Copy everything out of the PDF into a plain editor. If headings and dates come out in order, the parser reads it the same way.

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@FrancescaS83 Almost never, because the email is a template tied to the req status, not to a reason. The fastest ones usually trace back to a screening answer like location, work authorization, or years of experience.

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@dhalishiva One thing that helps: the filter is usually searching titles, not skills. If every role says Support, a search for developer never finds you. Pull the scripts, automations, and tools you built at work into their own bullets under that job.

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@sunsonking The screening step is usually less clever than that. Most early rejections come from knockout

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@Ziko_olatunji Nobody sat down on a Sunday to write that. The system queues rejections when a req closes or a knockout answer fails, and the batch sends whenever it runs. That timing tells you it was automated, not personal.

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@Hamza_the1_ When the rejection beats the confirmation, a screening answer did it, not a person. Location, work authorization, and years of experience questions get scored the moment you submit, before anyone opens the resume.

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@kseniya_a_iva After hundreds with no interviews, sending more applications rarely changes the result. Check the knockout questions and whether the form still fills your titles and dates correctly. The same no, sent 300 times, is a filter.

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@_glennk @Workday That VPS page error on My Experience is usually the form choking on what the upload filled in, not a rejection. Delete any empty extra job rows or missing dates the parser added, then try a private window.

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@_chinnyi @moniepoint A rejection that fast is a filter, not a verdict that you are overqualified. Check what you answered on location, work authorization, and years of experience, because those get scored before anyone opens the file.

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@inspectorgaydgt That usually means a screening answer already knocked you out, or the system timed out an unfinished form. Either way the resume never got a look, so it says nothing about how it reads.

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@stikves Yes. Recruiters often search the parsed title field, not the PDF. If your real work sits under a vague header title, you never show up in results even when the bullets are strong.

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@soundhumor True for the skim. The other silent killer is a file the portal cannot parse. Before you tailor, paste the PDF into a plain editor and check titles and dates still line up.

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@xegan271 Avoiding Workday is hard when half the Fortune 500 runs on it. What you can control is the file: single column, dates in the body, same words as the posting in the skills fields, then check the autofilled boxes before you submit.

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@babykeabirb An automatic reject seconds after an assessment is almost always a score threshold, not a person reading your resume. The pharmacy already decided the minimum, and the test just enforced it.

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@AaryanNagrale07 Knockout questions usually cut first, before keywords get a fair look. Location, work auth, years of experience, and required licenses are hard filters. If those already match and you still get rejected, check whether the parser kept your titles and dates intact.

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@goldalterrgo Fifty with no reply, not even a rejection, often means the postings were already stale. Check how old a role is before applying, since many sit open for weeks with nobody reading. Applying in the first few days lands you in the pile that actually gets looked at.

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@chimneylovato A hundred days of "in consideration" after good screens usually means they are holding you as a backup while the req stays open. Ask your referrer to message the hiring manager directly, or send the recruiter one short note asking for the decision timeline.