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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 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!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just don't like being rejected by some dumbass program before a human can look at my resume.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh I agree. I was being sarcastic as to now a recruiter has to do their job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.