I have applied to 214 jobs this year. Two hundred and fourteen. I have seven years of experience and a portfolio, and I got back mostly silence and a handful of auto-rejections sent at 2am. Then a friend told me the trick: paste the job description in white text at the bottom of your resume so the parser picks up the keywords. I did it as a joke. Three callbacks in a week. So the system doesn't find the best candidates. It finds the candidates who know how to game the parser, which is a completely different skill from doing the job. I refuse to believe this is better than a human spending sixty seconds actually reading. It's a slot machine that rewards cheaters and punishes everyone who assumed the process was honest.
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