Your application answers get checked against any knockout questions, your resume gets parsed into a structured record, and both go into the employer database. Recruiters then see you in a filterable list and can find you by keyword search. A human decides everything after that.
Nothing in that pipeline reads your resume the way you do. The parser extracts fields, so what survives extraction is what the recruiter screen shows. The search index stores your words, so the vocabulary you chose determines which queries retrieve you.
Then comes the only step anyone remembers: a recruiter opens the list and gives each resume about 7 seconds of first scan, per a Ladders eye-tracking study. Everything upstream just decides whether you arrive at those seconds intact and easy to find.
“Between you and a yes there is one tired human and a database, and the database is the easy part.”
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