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Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody | UX, Product Design, UX ResearchAuthor: Sarah Doody from Career Strategy Lab
Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast, with Sarah Doody, a UX Researcher & Product Designer with 22 years of experience who helps UX and Product people design their careers. Youll learn how to advance your UX or Product career including how get hired in UX, stay hired, get promoted, and build a personal brand and visibility. Youll also hear no BS tips to optimize your UX resume and portfolio, navigate your UX job search, and prepare for UX job interviews so you can stop being invisible and be seen as an in-demand UX professional. Get ready to UX your career, ironic, right?! Language: en Genres: Arts, Business, Careers, Design Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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198: UX resume myths about the ATS, with Workday UX director and hiring manager Patrick Neeman
Sunday, 25 October, 2026
Patrick Neeman, Director of UX Design, AI Experiences, explains how applicant tracking systems read your resume and why he advises against a two-column layout. He also shares what he has seen as a hiring manager about keyword filtering, knockout questions and the six-second resume glance.What You'll Learn in This Episode:✔️ Why Patrick says to use one column for an ATS and two columns for a person✔️ How OCR can turn a two-column resume into one big line of text✔️ How knockout questions and keyword filtering work in some systems✔️ Patrick's misconceptions about companies, AI and recruiters in hiring✔️ What Patrick says helps a resume pass a quick scanTimestamps00:00 Intro00:35 Who Patrick Neeman is01:23 Keyword filtering and knockout questions03:55 Why to avoid a two-column resume for the ATS05:48 Misconceptions about ATS and hiring07:28 The six-second resume study08:45 What makes a resume stand outRelated episodesHow to optimize your resume for the ATS so you can get more UX job interviewsHow to optimize your resume for the Applicant Tracking SystemLinks and resourcesPatrick Neeman on LinkedInWorkday careers🎯 How I can help with your UX job search📋 Get my UX case study template👋 Follow me, on LinkedIn, Instagram, & YouTube
