Quinncia
Quinncia: Meet the AI Advisor that Helps Your Prepare for Applying
Quinncia is here to help elevate your resume writing and interview skills so you have the best possible chance ofgetting to the person who does the hiring within an organization. This tool integrates best practices about theApplicant Tracking System to provide specific feedback about the structure/format of your resume, content, andrelevance. It even addresses details that are difficult to detect by the human eye! Learn more about this software by watching the following introductory video:
What is ATS?
Applicant tracking systems (ATS) can prevent up to 95% of applications from ever touching a hiring manager’s desk. ATS software system analyzes multiple components of a job application, filters candidates based on keywords and experiences and passes along only the most promising applications to hiring managers. Employers use ATS technology to receive and process thousands of applications in a very short amount of time. These systems help employers save company resources while still getting the job done. Company employees spend time evaluating only the most qualified candidates because the ATS rejects candidates automatically.Quinncia provides resume analysis and mock AI interviews to help students make resumes ATS friendly and to help students practice AI interviewing. If you want to learn more about using Quinncia to create an ATS friendly resume before uploading your resume, you can check out this Career Center blog post.
Don’t worry about that--your license will renew. Go ahead and activate your license and start uploading to get your first resume analysis.
Remember when we mentioned above that Quinncia will capture errors that are imperceptible to the human eye? Well, this might be the case for your analysis. Quinncia is checking for elements that most humans won’t consider wrong. The errors are only wrong because ATS software doesn’t understand them. Watch this brief video on checking the margins and indentations on your resumes to make sure they are ATS friendly.
Let’s take a step back. Quinncia will review your content to evaluate alignment with the industry you’ve identified and the position you have selected. Moreover, Quinncia synthesizes what it has learned from data on resumes in your selected industry and best practices to make specific suggestions. Bullet point descriptions are the most challenging aspect. Your bullet points need to contain an essential skill, a technical skill, and (sometimes) a quantified outcome. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) look for skills and experiences that match the job you are applying to. However, they are also programmed to highlight sections of a resume that may have been copied and pasted from the job description. You should be original and share your story, explain why you deserve the job, and show the employer that you will help the company be stronger and more successful!
We encourage you to:
- Evaluate the industry you selected. Make sure you select the correct industry.
- Connect with a member of the Career Center via drop-in hours. Sometimes Quinncia will note a lack of experience or gap in skills which may prompt you to reflect on the additional experience you would pursue to improve your marketability.
ATS systems don’t understand columns of text. Consider reformatting that text and eliminating columns.
Focus less on the score and more on the flags and improvements. Flags (identified in red) are edits that should be made because they concern elements that could cause your application to be instantly rejected from ATS systems. Improvements are overall recommendations for a more impactful resume. Resolve all flags possible, using embedded resources provided by the platform to guide you through the edits to format, margins, text style, grammar, etc. that might lead to having your resume rejected.
Quinncia can review a CV; however, it will likely provide inaccurate suggestions on structure and formatting of the document because it will be reviewing as if the CV is a traditional resume, with resume elements.
Use a file that was recently downloaded as a PDF to avoid file corruption. See this brief article on how to repair a damaged or corrupted PDF file.
How to Get Started with Quinncia
How do you start? Just go to quinncia.io/access and login with your UGA email address. Click here to watch a short video on how to register your account. If you don’t have a resume already, there will be templates available to download when you log in.