Guides
What we’ve learned from reading employers’ hiring systems every day, written down.
- How to make your resume readable by applicant tracking systems
What applicant tracking systems actually read from a resume, what their own help pages say breaks them, and the file and layout choices that work on every system we checked.
- What each hiring system does with your resume
Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Lever and 22 more: whether you sign in first, whether it reads your resume into its form, which files it takes and its size limits, each with a source.
- What your Workday application status means
Submitted, In Progress, Completed and Withdrew: what each Workday status means, where to find it, and why it can change without anyone telling you.
- How to tell if a job posting is real and still open
Five checks before you apply: the employer's own site, how long it has been up, whether it was reposted, what the posting says, and the signs of a scam.