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- Job seekers often look for ways to slip past the software many companies use to collect résumés.
- Yet it's often recruiters, not bots, that reject applicants for a role.
- A recruitment firm found that applications lead to "meaningful conversations" only 3% of the time.
Melissa Weaver was recruiting for a tech consulting company when she spotted something promising on a man's résumé: He'd worked at a pizza shop all four years of college.
"He had started as a dishwasher and, by the end, he was a manager," she told Business Insider.