You didn't get rejected because you're unqualified. You buried the good stuff on page four, wrote your job description instead of your results, and blamed a robot that was never even reading your résumé.

Yana Senina recruited for Google and Meta before she started coaching job seekers full-time, and she's watched the same seven mistakes sink résumé after résumé — no metrics, no tailoring, buzzwords with nothing behind them, a LinkedIn nobody finished.

The twist: ATS keyword filters, the villain of every job-search horror story, don't exist. There's just a person, skimming fast, deciding whether you're worth a second look.

Cut the padding. Add the numbers. Make every line earn its spot on the page.