Rachel Wells’ March 2026 analysis in Forbes surfaced a number that should reframe how you think about certifications and courses on your resume: 85% of hiring managers actively want to see a dedicated skills section. The finding sounds encouraging for anyone who’s invested time in upskilling.
Three recruiting and career coaching experts issued guidance May 11 against including photographs on job applications submitted in Australia, citing both technical screening barriers and bias concerns, according to ABC News.
Workday’s Illuminate platform, Greenhouse, and iCIMS all shipped large language model integrations into their applicant tracking systems between late 2023 and mid-2024.
ATS-simulation tools like Jobscan now score resumes on a 0–100 scale against specific job descriptions. The recommended competitive threshold sits at a 75% keyword match rate, and most unoptimized resumes fall well below it.
April’s jobs report landed with 115,000 new positions added to the U.S. economy and unemployment holding steady at 4.3%.
USAJOBS enforced a strict two-page resume cap for Title 5 positions starting September 27, 2025, and the policy demolished the single most persistent myth about federal applications: that they need to be long.
Hiring managers spend an average of 11.2 seconds reviewing each resume, according to a study released May 8 by AI-powered interview platform InterviewPal, while 71% now deploy automated software to filter candidates before human review begins. The research examined screening patterns across multiple
Freshworks cut 500 employees on May 6, eliminating 11% of its global workforce, while posting $228.6 million in Q1 revenue and a 16% year-on-year growth rate. The company isn’t in trouble.
Copy your resume into Notepad. Strip away every font choice, every careful margin, every bold header you spent an hour adjusting. What remains is roughly what Workday’s Illuminate, Greenhouse, iCIMS, and dozens of other applicant tracking systems actually see when your file hits their parser.
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