Job Seekers Get Generic Resume Feedback and Silent ATS Rejections
Job-seeking CS students found peer resume feedback unhelpful and discovered many rejections came from ATS parsing failures, such as PDFs with no extractable text layer, that a human reviewer never even saw. They built bots to flag unsupported achievement claims and detect ATS-blocking formatting issues before submission.
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