A few months ago, one of my friends showed me his job application tracker. It had around 120 applications. The painful part wasn’t the number. It was the response column. Almost every entry said the same thing: No response Rejected Application not selected At first, we blamed the market. Then competition. Then luck. But after reviewing his resume carefully, I realized something that completely changed the way I looked at job applications. The resume wasn’t bad. It was just invisible. The problem most people don’t notice A lot of people think resumes are rejected by recruiters. In reality, many resumes never even reach a recruiter. Before a human sees your application, it usually goes through an ATS (Applicant Tracking System). The ATS scans your resume and checks things like: Keywords Skills Formatting Experience relevance Alignment with the job description If your resume doesn’t match well enough, it can get filtered automatically.…