Applicants Tracking System (ATS) is a tool, which provides its input in recruiting and hiring of people for companies. Earlier an applicant had a challenge of making his resume keeping the recruiter’s thinking in mind, so that his resume can get shortlisted for further interview process bur as the technology has expanded his footsteps in business, this process of recruitment has got easier to some extent both for applicant and recruiter with the help of ATS.ATS is a software which screens the resume and compare it with job description, then shortlist those resume which are nearest to job description.
ATS store these resume in form of data, even if some resume don’t get selected for that particular job so that this data can be used in future for some other job profiles. Through ATS recruiter can put a filter, where resumes which fit into that filter get shortlisted for further process and this filter can be in the form of minimum education, minimum work experience, some particular certification or some keywords highlights in that resume. Hiring manager can sort the resumes in number of ways with the help of ATS, depending on the system they are using in ATS. Viewing every application just for 5 or 6 seconds to know whether he should go through the whole resume in deep or not, keywords search in resumes are some formats of ATS system. For recruiter ATS plays a role of their right hand which helps in releasing their stress of screening every resume in detail and save time also. But the benefits of ATS is not just limited to recruiter, it also helps applicants where they can get a better chance to be noticed or shortlisted for further process. Since it is very difficult to understand the human mind as comparison to machine algorithm, so applicant can easily prepare his resume by including some keywords according to algorithm in his resume to get noticed by ATS software and focusing on most impactful information in his resume, keeping your resume format simple so that ATS don’t face any difficulty to analyze your data are some techniques of resume being noticed by ATS. Technology always takes us one step ahead, an applicant can easily download some resume formats according to particular ATS criteria. Anything which can solve many problems always create an ecosystem and it also survives for long time till the time something better invented. While some outdated systems are still in use, we are seeing new ATS being developed for modern age. In brief ATS is in business world to stay for a long time.