Gap in resume

Solution: print as pdf

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
- Circle of life
- My school did things like that when sending the updated schedule. (Make fixes in the schedule, print it, take photo of the printed schedule, send it by email)
Unfortunately still can't stop someone from importing the PDF into Word anyway 🫠
- We don't interact with those people
- 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.
- It could be worse, they could import it into excel.

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
- I've had recruiters ask for TXT format, which honestly was awesome.
- And I reject their job offers. When I think at how much time I have to write justification of my work in some kind of numerical format, I won't want to be dealing with he standard of someone who doesn't know the different of a working document and finish content to be send to the world.
  I'm privileged enough to be able to screen out big red flags out and not needed to find rapidly the next paycheck at the cost of my mental and physical health and I must use that privilege.
Exactly.
\ Even if everything is in order, I def assume a lower digital literacy.
Image?
He's a gif of my CV, just pause it to read the pages
- You have no idea what crazy idea people in the communication field have implemented in CV.

“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
- 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 😇
- The way to getting through the door is by employing soft skills, ie having someone forward your CV, be it someone you knew or some recruiter you just added to LinkedIn.
  There are other ways, but involve more gating like CV scrappers.
- This is why you shouldn't use complex two-or-more column layouts. Single-column resumes import fine.
- That's their problem. If they are going to give my CV to an AI then they can at least come up with a standardized JSON format.
Something something porn delivery file

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.
- Make a program with RISC V assembly that shows your animated resume and ship it with your light powered business card.
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?
- Its from watching streamers I imagine.
- 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.
- It's how twitch streamers collectively address their viewers. It's basically just announcing you're going to have a soapbox moment
- More bullshit lingo to learn and use, to prove you're with it. It never ends, but sometimes it circles back around and rhymes.
  I used to be with it...
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
- I hate the Europass template, it looks so ugly. But nowadays no one even bothers to read the CV, they probably just feed it to some AI and ask to summarize it, so all my efforts to make it look pretty are wasted.
Small world. The example on the right uses Sarasota Florida. I used to live there.

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

I would demand an apology honestly.

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.

This is smart

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."
- How do I even open a scroll on my lap-wax-top??

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

Ooooorr he could just print it on a latex condom.

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.
- I think it's applicant tracking system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicant_tracking_system
I dunno about that application, but my work has some paid version of Acrobat that reads the text well enough to ctrl+F. The process where it scans the text is super quick too.

This is why my resume is a pdf uwu

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

Formats? (Laughs in Linux)

I was following the Grateful Dead from 1985 to 1995.

Download as PDF. It's so dumb when people send .docx and other project files.

Idk why I would do it in Google Docs or Word. Something like Canva is much better for a CV.

Sometimes the less-optimal tool you know beats the more-optimal tool you don't ¯(ツ)_/¯
- I didn't know Canva either before I tried it out tbh.
I made it in asciidoctor-pdf. But the market insisted on the usual two-column layout and, while possible, was a chore in asciidoctor.