Your CV Is Being Read by a Robot Before Any Human in the UAE Sees It
78% of CVs in the UAE are rejected by ATS before any human sees them. Here's how it works.
78% of CVs rejected by ATS before any human sees them in the UAE. 6s average time to score and filter. 99% of large UAE employers use ATS.
The UAE's Heavy ATS Adoption
The UAE has one of the highest ATS adoption rates in the world — driven by large government-linked entities (GLEs), aviation, energy, and banking. A single corporate job posting can attract 500-800 applications from across 100+ nationalities.
What Is an ATS?
An Applicant Tracking System manages job applications at scale. When you submit, your CV gets parsed into structured data and scored.
What the ATS checks
UAE-specific: Many government and semi-government employers require Arabic language CVs or bilingual applications. English-only CVs may be filtered out regardless of qualifications.
ATS users in UAE: Emirates Group (Taleo), ADNOC (SAP SF), Etihad Airways (Workday), Majid Al Futtaim (Greenhouse), Chalhoub Group (Workday)