Traffit: what the recruiter sees when your CV enters the system
A Polish hiring system popular with tech companies, agencies and SMBs
Traffit is a Polish recruitment platform — it collects applications, turns them into a searchable candidate database and moves candidates through hiring stages. It is a common pick for tech companies, recruitment agencies and smaller businesses.
How Traffit processes an application
After you apply, the system parses your CV: it pulls contact details, work history and skills out of the file and stores them in a candidate profile. Recruiters move profiles across stages (like a kanban board) and run full-text searches over the whole database — including candidates from past openings.
This has an important consequence: your CV competes not only with today's applicants but with the entire database. A recruiter searching for “React” or “payroll” gets results spanning months. A document without the right words loses twice — today, and in every future search where the database is the first place recruiters look.
What most often breaks parsing in Traffit
The parser handles a classic layout well, but unusual section names (“My professional journey” instead of “Experience”), tables and two-column designs can scramble the content order or drop fragments. The candidate profile then fills in only partially — and a recruiter filtering by skills sees incomplete data, not your carefully designed document.
The good news: recruiters usually keep a preview of your original file. The bad news: they only reach that preview if your profile surfaces in search at all. Text has to work first — aesthetics come second.
Checklist: a resume ready for Traffit
Classic section names
“Work experience”, “Education”, “Skills”, “Certifications” — creative headings confuse the parser.
Reverse-chronological order
Each entry: title, company, date range in one predictable format (e.g. 03/2022 – 06/2025).
Skills written as text
Bars, stars and skill-level charts are graphics — search cannot see them. List technologies and competencies in words.
The ad's keywords and their variants
In tech, include both the abbreviation and the full name (“JS” and “JavaScript”, “k8s” and “Kubernetes”) — you don't know which one the recruiter searches for.
Contact details in the document body
Not in the file header/footer and not inside a graphic — parsers often skip those areas.
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Frequently asked questions about Traffit
Does Traffit score CVs?
Traffit is not a points-based rejection machine — a recruiter decides your application's fate. The sieve is elsewhere: the database search and filters, which a badly parsed CV simply never passes through.
Does the recruiter see my original CV file?
Usually yes — a document preview sits next to the parsed profile. But searching and filtering run on the extracted text, so that text decides whether anyone ever reaches the preview.
I applied months ago — why is the company coming back to me?
Because the candidate database persists. Recruiters start new openings by searching their own base — a well-prepared CV keeps working for you long after you hit send.
How can I check what Traffit would extract from my CV?
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