How do I get my resume to pass application bots’ analysis?

You are not passing the algorithm because you are not supposed to pass it. If you are going to be just blindly sending your resume to the system, nobody will ever reply to you.

What you do: 1. Find a company you want to join with an open position. 2. Create a profile on LinkedIn and nicely fill your profile. 3. Find a recruiter that works for this specific company and send them a direct message.

This needs to be a recruiter working directly for this company. You need to approach them and ask for an interview.

Companies have multiple recruiters so if one recruiter is not responding, you can contact another.

This way you will skip the algorithm.

And if you can't find a recruiter, there will be definitely an engineering manager you can contact. That works sometimes too.

I used this method about a year ago and was successful 9 out of 10 times.

I also tried blindly sending my resume about 5 years ago and got a reply only for 1 out of 100 applications.

Talking to someone you know at the company is the best way to get a job in a big organization.

Getting hired from a university campus visit is the second best way.

My suspicion is that showing up at the front desk in person is probably the third best way at this point (after submitting online) because online applications are designed to deal with the problem of too many qualified applicants.

Sure online application processes wade through the morasses of 40,000 unqualified applicants a day. But the hard problem is 1000 qualified applicants a week modulo labor law for a position that will probably be filled via hiring someone who already knows someone at the company...

...or an industrial competitor/peer. And if your resume is being word searched it would make sense to search for business names in the work history section of resumes. Because the standard for a factual claims about past employers is clearer than the standard for factual claims regarding experience with a particular technology.

So anyway, put on business attire, shine your shoes, put some printed copies in a file folder, walk in, and say "I would like to talk to someone about a job."

Then you can meet some people at the company.

Good luck.

Yeah, for any given application, you probably have to have the right buzzword density.

I remember hearing about cases where the applicant's resume address was factored in; distance from the office was valued negatively.

Personally I don't enjoy this game and I try to use other strategies besides cold applications.

For one thing, feed back absolutely anything you can from the job description.