In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work

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Job-Hunting Strategies

Want to know one of the biggest obstacle to landing a job? Automated-hiring technology rejects countless people from job consideration. While this software (known as an application tracking system) isn’t new, its use has accelerated in recent years and has been fine-tuned to cull out the hundreds of applications and résumés employers often receive electronically for a single open position.

Workers of all ages who are unemployed, underemployed, or working part-time want to get hired for full-time jobs, but the hiring methods discard their applications because they don’t fit the strict criteria in the job description, even though they could productively perform the job.

I hear this all the time when interviewing workers ...