Rejected petition Stop use of ATS in job recruitment

These automated systems often reject CVs based on formatting, keywords, or parsing errors without any human review. This means qualified candidates are unfairly excluded before their applications are even seen.

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Why is this important?
ATS filters CVs before recruiters see them, rejecting candidates over formatting, missing keywords, or errors. This causes unfair rejections, disadvantages those unfamiliar with ATS, and excludes qualified talent.

We urge the Government to:
• Mandate human review alongside ATS results.
• Regulate ATS to reduce errors.
• Require transparency on ATS use and feedback for rejected candidates.

These steps will make recruitment fairer, focusing on skills, not algorithms.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about employers' use of ATS to sift job applications are a matter for individual employers, not the UK Government or Parliament.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 17 December 2024
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