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Ally is a technical recruiter at Simplify, helping engineers land their dream roles. Drawing on a background in data, she writes about the job search and how to get past technical hiring bars.
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Five ways to track job applications in 2026, compared on what's free, how applications get into the tracker, and what each one costs.
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The full guide to securing an AECOM internship: match your degree and experience to the right office and role.
9 min read
Raw ChatGPT gives itself away within two bullets. But recruiters don't reject you for using AI; they reject the generic resume it wrote. A Simplify recruiter explains, with data from 110,000+ resumes.
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A practical guide to UI/UX internship paths, portfolio case studies, current role requirements, application strategy, and design interviews.
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Ten to fifteen, grouped under category labels. We counted the skills on 75,308 real resumes: the median is 15, the mean is 19.4, and one resume in ten lists 44 or more.
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Past tense, for every job on the page, including your current one. We pulled 26,981 real resume bullet points from Simplify to show why the present-tense rule almost nobody follows, and the cases where it still earns its place.
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