Here we go! The work is non-stop to bring you the best jobs with the best brands and it will start showing up here more and more, soon. There’ s a lot happening behind the scenes to win mindshare and ultimately be more useful to this community.

Using a niche platform like Malakye does provide you with certain advantages when you’re on the hunt for a new job opportunity. It shows you’re plugged in to the industry you’re interested in, and the overall volume is much lower than what you’re up against in the mainstream. Those are two wins and then you’re also a great fit for the job with the right experience and you live within a commutable distance to the company’s office. That, is a hot knife through butter. We have a poll and thought to share today as well, the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

The ATS – you find a perfect job opportunity, dream job and dream brand, push that apply button, and you are staring right at the black hole that makes you think you'll never be seen by a person and the AI will filter you out before human eyes ever consider it. The ATS is necessary because of volume and efficiency on the company side - it's estimated 75% of applications never even reach a recruiter. The robot filters them out first.

All the big brands use them now. It’s no wonder people want to find other ways in to feel like the chance is better. Our opinion is – apply through the ATS to follow the process, AND find connections inside the company – people you’d work alongside, whoever your boss would be, the recruiters / talent acquisition people, build support inside. If you want to work at a brand or similar brands think of it as a long-term investment in YOU.

There are a few big players in ATS that dominate the market — dozens of brands use the same software — i.e. Workday, ADP, Greenhouse, Lever, and a few more. Here are some formulaic ideas on how you can work with all of them.

Mirror the job posting word for word. Copy the job description. Paste it, and your resume, into Claude.ai. Ask it to rewrite your resume bullets using the exact language from the posting. If the job says "go-to-market strategy" and your resume says "product launches," the robot doesn't make that connection — but the hiring manager would. The ATS never gets the chance to find out. Fix it before you apply.

Make Claude break your resume. Weird prompt, real results. Ask Claude to pretend it's the Workday ATS and parse your resume for errors. One person did this and found out en dashes in her date ranges and inconsistent bullet styles were quietly tripping the parser. Fixed both. Started getting calls. Ten minutes of work.

Run it through Jobscan. Free tool, paste the job description, paste your resume, get a match score. It tells you exactly which keywords you're missing. Do this before every application to a brand you actually care about.

Then put yourself back in it. AI gets the structure right. But "grew wholesale accounts from 12 to 47 across the Western region" beats "results-oriented sales professional" every single time. The robot passes you through. The human hires you. Give them both what they need.

And it's working. A few data points worth knowing:
—>A ResumeBuilder.com survey of 1,000 job hunters found 70% saw a higher response rate from companies when using AI to craft their application materials, and 78% of candidates who used AI scored interviews. (Executive Career Brand)
—> A Reddit user built an AI bot that applied to 1,000 jobs by generating a unique resume and cover letter for each one. In one month: 50 interviews. His quote: "The tailored CVs and cover letters, customized based on each job description, made a significant difference." (Entrepreneur)
—> A real person named Debbie Levitt documented her experience: used ChatGPT to rewrite her resume in late 2024, got almost no interviews. Switched to Claude, asked it to impersonate the Workday ATS and find parsing errors. It flagged en dashes in date ranges and mixed bullet styles. She fixed them. Started getting calls. (Delta CX Hive)

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Here’s a great way to pick up tips, ideas, thinking of a person who’s achieved a lot in his career and run product for one of the biggest Outdoor companies in the world. Shop-Eat-Surf did a great interview with Andrew Coutant who was with The North Face for 14 years. It’s a good read and full of useful insight.

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