An applicant tracking system extracts text, maps it to fields, and ranks or filters candidates. Fancy design that looks great to humans can still scramble dates, job titles, or contact details for the parser.

Your goal is dual readability: a human can skim the story, and software can recover every section cleanly.

Prefer a single-column layout, standard section headings, and real text — not text locked inside images or complex tables.

• Use common headings: Summary, Experience, Education, Skills
• Keep dates in a consistent format next to each role
• Avoid headers/footers for critical contact info; put email and phone in the body
• Skip text boxes, multi-column skill clouds, and icon-only skill rows
• Export a text-based PDF; confirm you can select and copy text after export

Listing every tool from the job post in a skills dump rarely helps. Keywords perform better when they appear next to outcomes: what you built, improved, or owned with that skill.

If the role repeats “TypeScript,” “experimentation,” and “stakeholder communication,” those words should show up in your recent bullets with measurable results — not only in a keyword block.

Name the file with your name and target role family, for example Firstname-Lastname-Product-Engineer.pdf. Upload the version tailored to that posting, not your master archive CV.

Before you submit, open the PDF on another device, check that links and contact details are correct, and skim for truncated lines from the export.

LuminousCV generates ATS-safe template layouts and a role-specific rewrite you can edit before download. Always review AI output for accuracy, then export the PDF you intend to send.

An applicant tracking system extracts text, maps it to fields, and ranks or filters candidates. Fancy design that looks great to humans can still scramble dates, job titles, or contact details for the parser.

Your goal is dual readability: a human can skim the story, and software can recover every section cleanly.

Prefer a single-column layout, standard section headings, and real text — not text locked inside images or complex tables.

• Use common headings: Summary, Experience, Education, Skills
• Keep dates in a consistent format next to each role
• Avoid headers/footers for critical contact info; put email and phone in the body
• Skip text boxes, multi-column skill clouds, and icon-only skill rows
• Export a text-based PDF; confirm you can select and copy text after export

Listing every tool from the job post in a skills dump rarely helps. Keywords perform better when they appear next to outcomes: what you built, improved, or owned with that skill.

If the role repeats “TypeScript,” “experimentation,” and “stakeholder communication,” those words should show up in your recent bullets with measurable results — not only in a keyword block.

Name the file with your name and target role family, for example Firstname-Lastname-Product-Engineer.pdf. Upload the version tailored to that posting, not your master archive CV.

Before you submit, open the PDF on another device, check that links and contact details are correct, and skim for truncated lines from the export.

LuminousCV generates ATS-safe template layouts and a role-specific rewrite you can edit before download. Always review AI output for accuracy, then export the PDF you intend to send.