Easy.
- They’re both trying to catch you out.
- They’re not a good thing.
Next question!
No. No. And no, again.
Before I became a CV writer, one of the jobs on my own CV a few years ago was promoting the use of what are commonly known as speed cameras across London. Technically, they are called road safety cameras because they have been designed to promote road safety and there is power in the language that we use, isn’t there? But maybe that’s another post.
One day last week, while I was reading an article on LinkedIn about ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems), it struck me that there is a similar sense of paranoia when people discuss road safety cameras.
Neither exist to ‘catch you out’.
Arguably, and trust me I have had countless conversations and arguments with people, including hardcore petrolheads over the years, road safety cameras exist to encourage you to slow down because other people have been injured or killed at that location. They are not ‘cash cows’ hiding cameras in bushes to catch you out.
They are there to prevent you from causing injury to yourself or others and so, with that in mind, they are a ‘good thing’.
Equally, and perhaps arguably, ATS is also a ‘good thing’.
It is there to help recruiters get the best clients to fill their roles and also help jobsearchers to move forward with their application.
Some people think they need to ‘cheat the system’ by stuffing keywords in the white space on the CV and all kinds of other things, but if you work with ATS, it can work for you. Of course, no system is perfect, but this is the objective. It’s simply part of the jobsearching process these days. It is not there to catch anyone out.
So, to conclude, road safety cameras can help everyone to be safe and ATS can help jobsearchers to get the interview they want.
What do you think?
If you would like some help putting your CV together because you don’t want to, I look forward to hearing from you.
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