Field notes for better candidate submittals

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• Does Resume Formatting Software Fall Under NYC Local Law 144? — A straight answer for US staffing agencies on whether resume formatting and AI rewriting tools are covered by NYC Local Law 144, Illinois HB 3773, California's ADS regulations and Colorado's replacement AI law — with the definitional text, not vendor fear-selling.
• Can Your Resume Formatter Invent a Job Your Candidate Never Had? — AI resume rewriting can fabricate employers, dates, figures and skills — and it does it in fluent, plausible prose. Here are the four failure modes, and a ten-minute test you can run on any vendor before you submit a candidate.
• Submittal-to-Interview Ratio: What Formatting Actually Changes — Presentation affects your submittal-to-interview ratio, but not by as much as vendors imply — and the published staffing benchmarks measure something else entirely. How to measure your own, and what to fix first.