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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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[–] 177 points 2 years ago (15 children)
  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Print as PDF, then screenshot the opened PDF, and OCR it back into word before printing to PDF one last time.

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Unfortunately still can't stop someone from importing the PDF into Word anyway 🫠

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  • [–] 94 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    If you send your resume in word format and not pdf or even image, I did not open it at all.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    I've had recruiters reject anything that isn't in word format.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    That's because they can easily edit it or change it before sending it out

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

    That's why pdf, it has annotation feature while being not editable.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    PDFs are absolutely editable, but usually you need paid application for that. Thanks to some dumbassery in my previous job, I had to use the paid version of Adobe because I regularly had to edit PDFs. There are some security options that can make PDFs more challenging to edit, even with the paid tools, but I've always found ways around those too, usually by simply using "Print to PDF", then editing the output file.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I've had recruiters ask for TXT format, which honestly was awesome.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Whats this gap in your resume?"

    "Syntax error"

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I see for past experience you put :

    CREATE TABLE Resume (
        Field VARCHAR(255) PRIMARY KEY,
        Value VARCHAR(255)
    );
    
    INSERT INTO Resume (Field, Value) VALUES
    ('Experience_1_Title', ''),
    ('Experience_1_Company', ''),
    ('Experience_1_Years', ''),
    ('Experience_1_Description', '.'),
    ('Experience_2_Title', ''),
    ('Experience_2_Company', ''),
    ('Experience_2_Years', ''),
    ('Experience_2_Description', '.'),
    ('Skills_1', ''),
    ('Skills_2', ''),
    ('Skills_3', ''),
    ('Skills_4', ''),
    ('Education_Degree', ''),
    ('Education_Years', '),
    ('References', '');
    
    SELECT Field, Value FROM Resume;
    
    -- Bonus Query: Show my most "impressive" skill
    SELECT Value FROM Resume WHERE Field = 'Skills_1';
    
    -- Another Bonus: My career trajectory
    SELECT Field, Value FROM Resume WHERE Field LIKE 'Experience%';`___`
    
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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago

    “Can you explain this kerning?”

    “For reasons I cannot understand, you set your system font to Copperplate Gothic.”

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    This is why the PDF format exists

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Where did this extremely dumb habit come from where people refer to anyone online as “chat”?

    This wasn’t a thing a couple of years ago. Is this just internet brain rot taking over?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    well you’re not hired because it took you six hours to format a single document. bad time management. also your document editor of choice is google docs when libreoffice and onlyoffice exist, yuck

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where I work you keep a txt copy of your CV to apply on different positions because the online form has you copy-paste it in a text box anyway so all the formatting is gone.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If I don't get the resume on a clay tablet I'll just assume they don't know shit.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You obviously should use Latex and send them the PDF file.

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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

    This is why my resume is a pdf uwu

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Print it out and scan it and print it back to a 300MB PDF.

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