I finally figured out why my resume never got callbacks — it wasn’t my skills

I was convinced the job market was broken.

Applied to dozens of roles.
Good skills. Decent projects.
Still… no callbacks.

Out of frustration, I ran my resume through an ATS-style resume roast to see what was actually happening.

It was painful — but eye-opening.

Turns out:

My bullet points described tasks, not impact

Keywords existed, but not in ATS-readable form

Sections I thought mattered were being ignored

My “clean” formatting was hurting parsing

After fixing those, responses didn’t explode — but they started coming. And that was the difference.

Sharing this because a lot of people here are qualified but still stuck.

If you want to see what ATS/interviewers are really reacting to, this is what I used:
👉 link

Not affiliated with recruiters. Just something that helped me.