Original research on ATS systems, ghost jobs, and the modern hiring funnel. All studies use anonymized aggregate data with a minimum cell size of 50, exclude test traffic, and are licensed under CC BY 4.0 for free reuse with attribution.
Average match scores and most-common missing keywords, broken down by job title.
Average ATS match scores vary dramatically by target role — and the gap is rarely driven by candidate quality. It is driven by how stable the role's vocabulary is. Roles with rapidly evolving terminology (data, ML, cloud…
An anonymized look at how often resumes fall short of the 75-point match threshold, and the gap categories driving rejection.
Most resumes uploaded to Knowitol score below the threshold ATS-aware recruiters use as a soft cutoff, and the reason is rarely formatting — it is missing role-specific signals. Across hundreds of thousands of completed …