How to Beat the Applicant Tracking System, with Brandon Laws

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The likelihood of an applicant tracking system reviewing your application rather than a human is steadily increasing. How can you ensure that your resume rises to the top and doesn’t end up in the circular file? First, you need to pay attention to the job posting, says Find Your Dream Job guest Brandon Laws. Use the same language the employer uses to showcase your skills and experience. Brandon also highlights the need to build a personal brand online that matches the skills you mention on your resume. And watch those typos; applications with grammatical errors almost always get tossed without a second look. About Our Guest: Brandon Laws ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawsbrandon) is the director of marketing at Xenium HR,(https://www.xeniumhr.com) where he has spent the last 11 years of his career helping transform workplaces. He also hosts the podcast Transforming Your Workplace. (http://www.xeniumhr.com/hr-resources/podcast) Resources in This Episode: For more ideas on building a great workplace, listen to Brandon’s podcast, Transforming Your Workplace. (http://www.xeniumhr.com/hr-resources/podcast) Nail every behavioral interview question in your next interview by learning how to prepare for them. Download 100 Behavioral Interview Questions You Need to Know. (http://www.macslist.org/questions) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.5	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.
1:19.3	I'm your host, Mac Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List. It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.
1:28.8	Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the helps you find a fulfilling career. Every Wednesday,
1:34.0	I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to find the work you want. At many companies, a computer, not a human being, reviews and ranks job applications. Here to talk
1:39.8	about how you can beat these applicant tracking systems is Brandon Laws.
1:46.7	Brandon is marketing director at Xenium HR.
1:52.9	He's also the host of the weekly leadership and HR podcast, Transform Your Workplace.
1:56.3	He joins us today in the Max List studio in Portland, Oregon.
1:58.1	Brandon, let's get right to it.
1:59.9	What is an applicant tracking system? The applicant tracking system is a great system for hiring managers, HR professionals, to cut down on the time it takes to find good candidates. I mean, that's the simplest way I could put it.
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