Why a technical CV needs different handling
An engineer's CV is a dense list of technologies, versions, certifications, standards and projects, and the meaning depends on context. Five years with the same framework listed at the bottom of the page is not the same as one year using it daily in production. An ATS that treats all of that as free text finds words, not skills.
The result shows up in daily work: searches that return hundreds of irrelevant profiles, valid candidates who never appear because they wrote the technology under another name, and recruiters who end up opening documents one by one. Structuring the information at upload time is what avoids repeating that work at every new search.
- Technology, version, years of use and date of last project
- Difference between occasional exposure and continuous use
- Certifications with issue and expiry dates
- Project context: sector, team size and responsibility