Solution: print as pdf
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Print as PDF, then screenshot the opened PDF, and OCR it back into word before printing to PDF one last time.
You forgot printing it on paper and scanning it back to pdf
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Unfortunately still can't stop someone from importing the PDF into Word anyway 🫠
We don't interact with those people
Unfortunately ceasing interaction with those people ceases the interaction of their money and your bank account 😔
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I had a rule about companies I applied to. I sent them my resume as a PDF and Word 2003 document. If they still couldn’t read it, I didn’t want to work there anymore.
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If you send your resume in word format and not pdf or even image, I did not open it at all.
I've had recruiters reject anything that isn't in word format.
That's because they can easily edit it or change it before sending it out
That's why pdf, it has annotation feature while being not editable.
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.
I think you can open PDFs in libreoffice and edit them, although you have to manually reexport as pdf when you're done
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I've had recruiters ask for TXT format, which honestly was awesome.
Resumes in JSON when?
"Whats this gap in your resume?"
"Syntax error"
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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“Can you explain this kerning?”
“For reasons I cannot understand, you set your system font to Copperplate Gothic.”
This is why the PDF format exists
But then recruitment companies can't get you in to trouble by editing and embellishing your CV before sending it to the potential employer. /S (and yes this came up before)
And why everyone hates it, because when you feed it into their automated CV parser to scrape for details like your employment history and email, it doesn't seem understand the format, or re-OCR's the text to make errors, and out comes garbage.
Word is sadly the defacto way to get a foot in through the door
I would question the applicant's computer literacy if they send me their CV as anything other than pdf. Basically never seen that though
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Word is sadly the defacto way to get a foot in through the door
Definitely not where I live
Just gotta put 1 font size white text at the bottom with all the keywords 😇
You joke, but the top paragraph of my CV is literally that, with a disclaimer at the bottom "THE ABOVE IS ROBOT TEXT"
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https://rxresu.me/ (FOSS, option to self host)
You're welcome, chat.
The real FOSS option is to make your resume in LaTeX.
Facts. Overleaf has great templates, don't be afraid to try it folks.
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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?
i mean, "habit" is a weird word for it. i'd call it more of a trend. "brain rot" seems like an adequate description.
it comes from streamer culture where streamers would refer to their audience as "chat" because the chat box is the main way for viewers to interact with whoever they are watching.
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Or, for the Europeans in the audience: https://europass.europa.eu/en/create-europass-cv
The best-known CV format in Europe
The Europass CV is one of the best-known CV formats in Europe. (emphasis added)
Straight to lying clickbait, unbelievable. /s
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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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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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If I don't get the resume on a clay tablet I'll just assume they don't know shit.
"I spent 6 hours writing this on papyrus scrolls, and you want clay tablets."
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!
What is ATS?
Right, it's a tool companies use to automatically scan and reject resumes based on keywords.
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Print it out and scan it and print it back to a 300MB PDF.
This is why my resume is a pdf uwu
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