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The TrueScan HR Blog

Insights on smarter hiring, veteran talent, ATS blind spots, and what AI-powered resume screening actually changes for HR teams.

What a Veteran's Security Clearance Is Really Worth to Your Business

A cleared veteran represents years of federal vetting and tens of thousands of dollars your company never has to spend. Here is how to read a clearance on a resume and evaluate what it is worth.

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How to Read a Resume Skills-Gap Report and Close the Gap

Most people skim the gap and ignore it. Job seekers can turn it into a finite action list, and recruiters can read it as ramp time instead of a verdict.

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Ghost Jobs Are Poisoning Your Hiring Data

81% of hiring managers admit to posting jobs they were not actively trying to fill. Phantom listings inflate your pipeline, corrupt your metrics, and erode candidate trust. Here is how to clean it up.

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Skills-Based Hiring: How to Drop Degree Requirements Without Lowering Your Bar

Eighty-five percent of employers claim skills-based hiring, yet fewer than 1 in 700 new hires lacked a degree. What it really takes to replace the credential filter with a capability signal.

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Hire for the Pause: How to Interview for Verification Discipline

Most interviews reward the candidate who answers fast. The candidate who pauses, verifies, and accepts the social friction of doing so is the one who actually protects the company.

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AI-Written Resumes Are Breaking Keyword Screening

When most applicants use AI to mirror your job description word for word, keyword screening stops measuring fit and starts measuring who used the better tool. What employers should do instead.

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Why Your Veteran Hiring Pipeline Is Stuck at the ATS Layer Even With Good Intentions

Companies with explicit veteran hiring goals cannot move the numbers because the ATS is rejecting qualified veterans before any human reviews. The fix is upstream of recruiting.

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SkillBridge: The DoD Program That Gives You 180 Days With a Veteran Before You Hire

The federal government will pay a service member's salary while they work at your company for up to six months. Most employers have never heard of the program.

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Why Keyword Matching Is Not Hiring Intelligence

Matching words is not the same as matching skill. A close look at what keyword-driven screening actually measures, where it breaks, and what real hiring intelligence has to do instead.

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California ADS Compliance: What Every Employer Using AI Hiring Tools Needs to Know

California Automated Decision Systems regulations took effect October 1, 2025. If you use AI to screen candidates in California, here is what the law requires and how to protect your organization.

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Why Staffing Firms Lose Placements to Resume Volume

Speed wins placements. But when recruiters manually screen 200 resumes per req, speed and quality become opposing forces. Batch screening eliminates that tradeoff.

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88% of Employers Admit Their ATS Filters Out Qualified Candidates

Harvard found 27 million Americans are hidden workers, filtered out by automated hiring systems before a human ever reviews their resume.

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Why ATS Systems Fail Veterans (And What To Do About It)

Qualified veterans are being filtered out before a human ever sees their resume. The problem is not their experience. It is the language it is written in.

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How TrueScan HR Scores a Resume

It does not count keywords. Here is exactly what the AI reads, how it evaluates, and what the report tells you about each candidate.

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The Veteran Hiring Tax Credit Most Employers Miss

The federal government offers up to $9,600 per qualifying veteran hire. Most businesses never claim it because they miss the 28-day filing window.

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