ZoeVeraResume ATS Checker

Corrections to the ATS Resume Keyword Study

Updated September 28, 2026 · By ZoeVera

This page lists every figure in the job-posting keyword studies that was withdrawn, corrected or qualified after it was published: what the page said, what it says now, and why. Each study links here from its version history.

A figure that cannot be trusted is withdrawn rather than left in place, and the study page says so where the row used to be. If you quoted one of the figures below, the “Published” line is what you saw.

  1. 2026-09-25 · Withdrawn · Account Executive study

    The public sector / SLED row

    Published
    27.3% of postings (251 of 921) named the public sector as a segment.
    Now
    The row is removed from the table and the CSV. The analyzer now counts "federal" only where it names a buyer, such as a federal agency or federal accounts.
    Why
    The pattern matched the word "federal", which in most postings sits in the equal-opportunity line ("protected by federal, state or local laws"). On a later sample, 179 of 261 matches named no public-sector buyer, so the published share was about three times too high.

  2. 2026-09-25 · Qualified · Accountant study

    The Excel row

    Published
    The figure was presented as the share of postings naming the spreadsheet.
    Now
    The page labels it a ceiling: the true share for the software is at or below the published figure. The analyzer now counts only the product, which applies from the next collection.
    Why
    The match ignored case, so the verb also counted ("excel in a fast-paced environment"). On a later sample, about one match in nine was the verb.

  3. 2026-09-25 · Corrected · Cybersecurity study

    The number of terms measured

    Published
    The page description and its structured data said 41 terms.
    Now
    They say 40, the number in the dataset, and the count is now read from the data rather than typed.
    Why
    The count was typed by hand and did not match the term list.

  4. 2026-09-24 · Corrected · ATS Resume Keyword Study

    Worst-case margins of error

    Published
    At most ±0.3 points for the software engineer study (n=1,360) and ±0.9 points for the accountant study (n=123).
    Now
    ±2.7 and ±8.8 points. A test now pins the formula to textbook values.
    Why
    A constant in the formula was off by a factor of ten, so every margin the page quoted understated the uncertainty tenfold.

  5. 2026-09-24 · Corrected · ATS Resume Keyword Study

    The open-source claim

    Published
    The methodology said the collector and analyzer were open source.
    Now
    The claim was removed. The scripts have since been published and are linked from the methodology.
    Why
    The code was in a private repository at the time, so the claim was false.

Report an error

If a figure looks wrong, write to support@zoevera.com with the page and the row. The methodology links the scripts that produced every table, so a count can be checked against the same public endpoint.

ATS Resume Keyword Study: Corrections Log