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
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 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
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.
You could probably hide the instructions in the metadata, AIs read the whole document so they will see it.
BRB, going to search how to add comments to PDF metadata.
This is why you shouldn’t use complex two-or-more column layouts. Single-column resumes import fine.
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.
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.