For those of you who jumped and went brand side, did you pay to have your resume ATS optimized? If so, what did you pay? I'm being courted by a major brand, but being told that my ad agency resume needs to be ATS optimized to move forward.

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I quickly discovered this whole thing was a scam. Took a bit of digging.

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Happened to me last year. Had what I thought was a phone screening interview that turned into “oh wait, now that I’ve looked at your résumé it’s not compliant. You need to pay to have it fixed and I have a service “. I was so pissed at them for wasting my time, but learned from it. Now if someone mentions it, I know it’s a scam or giant red flag.

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Someone else said this. But just plop your stuff into Claude. Prompt away. Make tweaks. Save $250.

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Did that today.

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ATS optimized just means plain white background and black text, easy to navigate and easy to read. You can do that, just look it up on google there are templates. Also as someone said Claude and Gemini can do it for you or advise you how for free.

$250 is insane for someone to edit your resume and tbh it sounds like a scam. I recently replied to a job post and had the recruiter reject me. A day later they sent me a discount code for an AI resume service 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Omg 🤮

people are doing this? no wonder i’m not getting anywhere. if you have had success hiring someone, i would love to get their name.

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I used to list years as “2003–2008” and the only city I ever worked in as “New York,” now I have to put in months, even for long timelines like “August 2003–November 2008” and write out a tedious “New York, NY” like what other New York would I be talking about.

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Who told you to do that?

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You’re not really being courted lol. Anyone I know that’s brandside never needed to fill out an application, let alone have a resume. It’s usually “Hey, would you want to come work for us?” Then they’re gone.

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Updated ATS systems use a combination of keyword matching and LLMs for more contextual understanding to parse through candidates.

You can always shove your resume and cover letter package into an LLM and ask it to review acting as ATS for a specific job posting. If you know which recruitment software they’re using you’ll get a better read of what it’ll likely pull.

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Listen. If they want you, why are they telling you how to get hired by other people? Sounds like negotiation. Tell them you now want more.

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