I got laid off from a large AV integrator recently because the division and I was in got cut and everyone in that group was let go without any regard to performance. I've been looking for 3 months and have 30+ years of industry experience with 15 years of design engineering experience. I am having a hard time getting past the AI bots that read my resume and send an automatic rejection before a human even looks at my application.

Any advice?

Are there any integrators hiring design engineers?

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3 months is brutal, esp after 30+ years in the field. The bots are usually the worst part bc they dont care about performance, just matching words and format.

I'd tighten the resume for each posting and make sure the top third screams design engineer + AV integrator work in the exact language they use. If your resume has any tables, text boxes, weird headers, or a super dense layout, I’d strip that out first, those things get chewed up by ATS all the time. I ran a couple versions through ResumeJudge before and it caught a few dumb formatting issues I never wouldve noticed.

Also worth keeping 2 versions, one super clean ATS copy and one nicer human copy. I did that after getting ghosted on a bunch of roles and it helped a lot more than constantly rewriting from scratch.

What kind of systems are you seeing most of the rejections through, Workday, Taleo, Greenhouse, something else?

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