https://www.mightybs.com/tags/hiring/Recent content in Hiring on Brian SwigerHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 Brian SwigerFri, 18 Sep 2026 18:54:00 -0400https://www.mightybs.com/posts/2026-09-18-there-are-no-official-ats-rules-here-is-what-actually-works/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:54:00 -0400https://www.mightybs.com/posts/2026-09-18-there-are-no-official-ats-rules-here-is-what-actually-works/No standards body certifies a resume as ATS compliant, and the major applicant tracking vendors publish nothing about how they parse your file. The real guidance comes from the parsing engines those systems license, and it rests on a single mechanical fact: your resume is flattened to plain text before anything reads it. This is what that means in practice, what is genuinely true, what is folklore, and how to check your own file today.