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@dgar@aus.social: "Them: Can you explain this gap in your résumé? Me: I spent six hours formatting it in Google Docs and you’ve opened it in Word."
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I've been told ATS doesn't work properly on PDFs and word is better for this reason. I used to uploads PDFs prior to this. Now I don't know what to believe, my entire worldview has been upended!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Right, it's a tool companies use to automatically scan and reject resumes based on keywords.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh, no. Now they can't scan it...

    Also what sort of shitty system can't scan a PDF.

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