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Resumes, cover letters and the hiring systems employers use to collect them, from reading a posting to tracking what you sent.
Each post says what to change, what to leave alone and how to stay truthful.
The posts to read first in this hub.
An applicant tracking system stores your application, tries to read your resume into fields, and lets a recruiter search and sort what it stored. Plain, single-column files with standard headings read best. What any one employer's system rejects automatically is set by that employer, and you cannot see it.
Record five facts for every application (company, role, stage, date of last contact and the date of the next step) and review the list once a week. Follow up 7 to 10 days after applying, then once more, then stop. The tracker works because the next date is written down, not remembered.
Keep one master resume that holds everything, and make a separate version only when you apply to a distinctly different kind of role. For any single application, change the top third of the page, the order of your bullets, and the wording of three to five lines. That takes about 20 minutes.
Newest first.
Ashby jobs are openings an employer posts through Ashby, the hiring software it uses, and you find them on that employer's own Ashby job board. Start at the company's careers page and read the role there. Zorlya has an Ashby reader. It returned no jobs on 24 October 2026, and a fix for its failing runs went into the code the next day.
Lever jobs are the openings an employer lists on its own Lever page, at an address that starts with jobs.lever.co. Open the company's page, read the team, location and work arrangement on each posting, and apply on the posting itself. Zorlya reads Lever boards, and this post says how.
Workday jobs are the openings an employer lists on its own Workday career site, at an address with myworkdayjobs.com in it. Search the employer's site, note the requisition ID, and write your answers outside the form before you paste them in. Zorlya has a Workday reader, but most of its runs failed in October 2026, so only some Workday roles reach the feed.
Greenhouse jobs are the openings an employer posts on its own Greenhouse board, usually at a boards.greenhouse.io or job-boards.greenhouse.io address. Find the company's board, read the posting's dates and location with care, and apply on the page itself. Zorlya's Greenhouse reader returned no jobs on 25 October 2026, the day a fix for its runs went into the code.
You can check a resume for ATS problems yourself in about fifteen minutes with a plain text editor and one job posting. The routine below finds unreadable text, scrambled order, missing headings and keyword gaps.
Four short paragraphs are enough: why this role, one piece of evidence, one thing the resume cannot show, and a plain close. Aim for about 250 words. Skip the letter when the posting says not to send one, or when you would only repeat your resume.
State the dates, give the gap a short plain label if it was longer than a few months, and use the cover letter or interview for the one-sentence reason. Never move dates or stretch them to hide a gap. For a stint under a year, keep it and say what you did there.
To match your resume to a job description, list what the posting asks for, find your real evidence for each item, and change your wording only where the evidence exists. Gaps you cannot fill stay as gaps.
Spend ten minutes on five checks before you apply, covering the work, your fit, the pay, the place and the employer. If two checks fail, skip the job. If one is unclear, apply and plan to ask. The check saves your time for roles where an application can succeed.
An ATS resume checker compares your resume with a job posting or with formatting rules and reports what it finds. It can show missing keywords and layout problems, but it cannot show how an employer's own system will rank you.
Treat a stated deadline as the last moment the employer's system accepts you, in the employer's time zone, and apply at least a day early. When a posting has no deadline, assume it can close at any time and apply within a few days, then check the employer's own page to see whether it is still open.
Cap the search at five hours a week in short blocks, and give each block one job, such as finding, applying, following up or preparing. A cap keeps the search from taking over your evenings, and a fixed schedule keeps it from being skipped.
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