It's definitely obscure.

It really isn't if you have ever put even rudimentary effort into creating a CV.

I am 15 years into my tech career and I have never heard this acronym.

They're referring to ATS, not CV.

Whoops, thanks for the correction.

Is this supposed to mean something? I skimmed, doesn’t explain what the acronym means. And it certainly doesn’t go back in time and give me an understanding of what ATS is or why I should care.

24 yrs and same as you

32 yrs and same

Does gaming the shit out of recruitment process counts as "rudimentary effort into creating a CV" these days? Because I can't imagine how the two would otherwise be related from the job-seeker point of view. It's a backend-side system.

If anything, my closest encounter with something like this (but without learning the acronym, until today) would be those companies that told me to take the CV I put so much effort in, and copy-paste it into a textbox on some website. Or, even worse, copy-paste pieces of it into couple dozen different fields across several pages of their shitty webform. I stay away from companies doing that.

To you. To others, its not.

Just like name-dropping, tossing acronyms in mixed company is not much more than an obvious flex.

However, using the industry accepted term for the topic of the discussion is fine.

It's popped up a lot more in recent times in this job market. You'll run into it a lot on Linked c. late 2023.

It also means something else in finance

Obscure to me too !

To people saying it's obscure. It would be the same as a HR person/recruiter not knowing what an IDE is. 100% obscure to non-coders, 100% not obscure to people who know a bit about coding or write code for a living.

Applicant tracking systems are where HR people spend their time, well, tracking the 10s, 100s, or 1000s of applications that come in to their company, their interviewing steps, whether they've called a person back, etc.