We’ve all been there — you spend hours (or days) tweaking your resume, hit “submit,” and… crickets. That ghost town of silence? Chances are, you ran into an ATS (Applicant Tracking System). These systems aren’t new; pretty much every big company uses them. We’re talking 90%–99% of Fortune 500 companies — wild, right? These digital bouncers help recruiters sift through mountains of resumes, filtering, scoring, and sorting to save time. But here’s the catch: they’re…

Ever feel like your recruiting process is all over the place?I hear you. After years in IT and service desk support for recruiting firms, I know managing candidate pipelines can feel like juggling flaming swords — especially on a small team or as a solo freelancer. You’re hopping between spreadsheets, emails, Slack messages, sticky notes… you get the idea. So, what is ClickUp? ClickUp is an all-in-one project management platform that helps you centralize everything…

Let’s be real—most job seekers don’t start by heading straight to a company’s careers page. Nope, they Google. They scan job boards. If your open roles aren’t popping up in those searches, you’re basically invisible, no matter how awesome your workplace is. That’s where SEO (Search Engine Optimization) comes in. If you nail your job description’s keywords and structure, you’re not just hoping the right folks stumble across your ad—you’re making sure they do. Well-written,…

Let’s face it—if you’ve ever tried to hire even one person for your company, you already know how overwhelming it can get. There’s the never-ending pile of resumes, that one candidate who keeps emailing you every day, and of course, the dreaded spreadsheet that somehow grows more columns overnight. I’ve been there, sitting at the IT desk in a recruiting office, watching recruiters try to make sense of it all. Here’s the good news: you…

I’ve spent enough time tinkering behind the scenes in IT at recruiting firms to know how wild the content world’s gotten lately. If you’ve ever stared at a blog post and wondered, “Was this really written by a person, or did a robot cook it up in a data center somewhere?” — you’re not alone. I wrote a deep dive on this topic called AI Content Detection and Its Impact on Modern Hiring if you…