Why does my CV get rejected immediately?

You find the role one evening after work. It reads like someone wrote it with you in mind.You spend an hour on the cover note, tweak the CV and press submit at six.By eight there is an email waiting. "After careful consideration, we have decided not to move forward."Nobody considered anything carefully in two hours.The story almost writes itself: a piece of software scanned your CV, didn't find the right words and filed you under no.Most of the advice online agrees, and offers to sell you a template to beat it.What actually happens in those two hoursThe software is rarely the one saying no.When the CV builder Enhancv interviewed 25 recruiters, 23 of them said their applicant tracking system doesn't reject anyone on formatting or content. It's a small study from a company that sells CVs, so take it with a pinch of salt.People read the CVs.What the systems do apply, almost everywhere, are knockout questions. Do you have the right to work here? Can you be in the office three days a week?…