Do you ever wonder why you get emails from company’s after you apply to their jobs and it looks like they are yelling at you, “Hi CYNTHIA,“? It’s because you are putting your name on top of your resume in all uppercase letters. STOP! Companies are getting hundreds, if not thousands, of applications and their ATS parses the information into the boxes as you put it. I put a sentence next to the name box, that asked for candidates to fix their all-cap name and most did not fix it. Companies have application tracking systems (ATS) that send out automated emails with your name as you put it on your resume. The recruiters aren’t lazy by not changing it. There are just too many people doing it and it isn’t feasible to fix it. Just a public service post.
