Understanding ATS

What does ATS stand for?

• Automated Tracking System

• Automatic Transcribing Source

• Applicant Tracking System

• Air Traffic System

What does ATS do?

• Scan, sort and rank your resume

• Scan, mark and reject your resume

• Scan, sort and accept your resume

How does ATS scan your resume?

• From right to left

• From bottom to top

• From bottom to top, right to left

• From top to bottom, left to right

How does ATS rank your resume?

• Based on how good your resume design is

• Based on how many pages your resume is

• Based on how many keywords you have

• Based on the file type of your resume

When submitting your resume for an online application, what is the best file type to use?

• .jpg, .png

• .doc, .docx, .pdf

• .xls, .xlsx .xml

• .jpg, .doc, .pdf

Which of the following elements should you include in your resume?

• Tables, charts and graphs

• Custom fonts

• Graphics, icons and images

• None of the above

To make sure your resume is ATS friendly, your resume design should be _______

• Elaborate and fancy

• Clean and simple

• Colorful and image-heavy

You should organize your resume content in chronological order. What does this mean?

• Most important to least important

• Least important to most important

• Most recent to least recent

• Least recent to most recent

When you select keywords from the job advertisement, which keywords should you focus on?

• Soft skills, the company culture, benefits

• Hard skills, software, languages

• Minimum qualifications, minimum experience required

Based on your reading, should you choose a 1-column or a 2-column resume template?

• 1-column

• 2-column