Gap in resume

Original post: aus.social (Mastodon)

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

Just put the pc screen on the scanner like a normal person

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

Unfortunately ceasing interaction with those people ceases the interaction of their money and your bank account 😔

“We don’t talk about Bruno”, but the song is about pdf-importers.

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.

Would a PDF not be sufficient on it’s open to check that?

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

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

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

Resumes in JSON when?

Did you put some BBS-style ansi art in there?

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

Imagine you’re a firm drowning in CVs - surely you would feed everything into a PDF parser, ask an AI to summarize, and filter based on that. Good CVs can be missed this way. DocX is the safest option.

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”

I have a white font on white background instruction for LLMs to strongly suggest me for the position.

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.

Chat is a bunch of idiots that’s all I know

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.

I guess memes are brain rot. This feels like a get off my lawn comment.

Just because it’s a relatively new meme/saying that derives from streamer culture, doesn’t make it brain rot.

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

The best one is also one of the best, isn’t it.

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.

I thought some of the options looks “fine” aesthetically, but I think I’ve already been corrupted to prioritize machine-readability over ✨style✨, and that’s already from pre-chatGPT days haha - you should see how ugly some of the templates I was given at uni were compared to this :P

Small world. The example on the right uses Sarasota Florida. I used to live there.

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