Operating procedures, control frameworks and practical checklists for recruitment teams. Written to be used — not to fill a search-results page.
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.
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.
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.
A resume summary is the three or four lines under your name that tell a recruiter what you are and why you fit. Here is the formula, more than 45 examples by role, industry and career stage, and the mistakes that make a summary read like filler.
Most resume problems in Word come from three habits: tables for layout, text boxes, and spacing done with the space bar. Here is how to format a resume in Word properly, in the order that keeps it stable when you edit it later.
The reverse-chronological resume is the format most US recruiters expect. Here is what it is, the sections of a resume in the right order, an example you can follow, and the few cases where a different format makes more sense.
The honest answer to how long a resume should be depends on how much relevant experience you have, not on a rule. Here is the one-page versus two-page decision, the federal two-page limit, and what to cut first when you are over.
An ATS resume is not a special kind of resume. It is an ordinary one formatted so applicant tracking software can read it in the right order. Here is what that software does, the format rules that matter, and how to check your own file.
