ATS & recruiter insight

Application forms ask for your name several times and rarely say which one. Which field takes your legal name, where a preferred name fits, …

Every employer's careers site wants its own account. What those accounts hold, how a forgotten password quietly creates a second profile, an…

An auto-reply or a bounced email means your recruiter has gone. Your file is usually reassigned, but the handover is thin. Here is who to co…

An automated test link has landed after your application. How deadlines, retakes, scored sections and devices usually work, and how to ask f…

Apply to three roles at one employer and the recruiter usually sees all three on one screen. Here is how that list reads, and when to ask in…