You spent two hours perfecting your resumé. You tailored it to the job posting. You hit submit.

And then nothing. No interview. No rejection. Just silence.

It would be natural to blame the job market, your experience or the industry.

The real reason is often simpler and fixable. Your resumé never reached a real human being. It was filtered out by software before anyone saw it.

If your resumé is working, you will get calls for interviews.

If you aren’t getting calls, your resumé isn’t working.

Either it is getting screened out before human looks at it or it doesn’t address the job requirements. Either way, your efforts are wasted.

An effective resumé is more than formatting. It tells your specific story in a way that makes the job you are applying for look like it was designed for you.