What hiring systems actually evaluate in résumés in 2026 is not creativity or personality, but interpretability and confidence. Katina Ndlovu explains how AI-assisted hiring systems classify candidates, why ambiguity leads to omission, and what structural signals increase the chance of reaching human review.

ATS and AI screening -Most professional résumés are filtered by software before a recruiter sees them. This article shows how ATS parsing and AI screening extract patterns, what formatting and writing choices raise confidence, and how to reduce ambiguity without keyword stuffing or design-heavy layouts.

Résumé rejection often happens before a recruiter ever opens your file. This breakdown explains the modern screening pipeline, why ATS parsing and automated filters remove most applications, and how to align formatting and language with what systems can reliably interpret.