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Hirecarta can now do a great job at filling in Workday, Greenhouse, Ashby, and other really tedious ATS job sites saving you up to 10-15 minutes PER APPLICATION. It means you can focus on what you do best, which is telling Hirecarta about yourself and letting it do the magic of customizing resumes and cover letters. Go to the brand-new auto-fill page under the Careers section and fill it out. Then, with your browser extension installed, import a job, go to Hirecarta, generate resume and cover letter as usual. Go back to the job listing and click on the apply button. You should see a form to fill out, a resume upload box, demographic questions etc. Here's the magic. In the chrome or firefox extension, click Auto Fill. Watch as it fills out the page live. It is truly remarkable. Be sure to check all the responses as it's impossible to get every ATS page correct 100% of the time. If you find a job application page that is really broken, report it as a bug here and I'll take care of it as soon as I can. Enjoy! [image: 1780192106050-87cc81be-3813-4260-aa11-26ef5e3864c4-image.jpeg]

Any time I talk to someone about the worst part of applying to jobs, it's when they come across Workday as the ATS. Compared with other platforms, it's by far the most onerous in terms having to create an account, which you only use once, and filling in pages of information. Let me share with you some secrets about how Workday is often used by employers. Workday is the largest ATS platform by market share and is often used by the largest companies (i.e. "enterprise"). Its primary mission is not about hiring people. It is foremost an HR database, designed to handle employee records, org charts, payroll, benefits, time tracking, and recruiting. What makes Workday so frustrating to use is that it's designed for the recruiter and not for the candidate. The reason Workday seems to "force" you to cut and paste every detail from your resume into their system is because (1) their resume parser is truly terrible and (2) you are their willing database entry slave because you want that job. Workday's "sell" to large employers is that their HR department can search through millions of current employees, past employees, and past applicants to surface potential people they can reach out to, for different jobs. The chances of that actually happening to you, though, is very slim. So, what should you do? According to a recruiter I spoke with, she said when she personally applies to a job and sees the Workday UI, she simply skips all optional fields, the ones without an * asterisk. The human recruiter and hiring manager reads your PDF application, they do not see the text boxes you entered. HR managers have Workday accounts, but hiring managers don't, so recruiters typically forward your resume in your original PDF format. That's another reason to not use Word, because Word documents look different on different screens, and can be missing fonts and other elements. In fact, Workday's "AI" is a company they acquired, HiredScore AI, which does a database search to find old candidates and assign them a grade. Workday is currently under a class action lawsuit alleging discrimination on hiring, due to the use of AI. Read more about it here: https://fairnow.ai/workday-lawsuit-resume-screening/ Next time you come across a site that uses Workday, save yourself 10 minutes and don't cut and paste your resume into text boxes. Don't be their database entry slave.