7 ATS Resume Mistakes That Are Costing You Interviews

You have sent out dozens of applications but the callbacks are not coming. The problem is likely not your experience — it is how your resume is being read. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) filter out up to 75% of resumes before a human ever sees them. In this article, we break down the seven most common ATS mistakes we see every week: using tables and text boxes, missing industry keywords, saving as PDF when the portal expects DOCX, unclear job titles, no measurable achievements, overlong summaries, and inconsistent date formats. Each mistake comes with a simple fix you can apply in under ten minutes. If you want to stop getting ghosted by recruiters, start by auditing your resume against this checklist.