MHLoppyGap in resume
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AeronMelon“Can you explain this kerning?”
“For reasons I cannot understand, you set your system font to Copperplate Gothic.”
Solution: print as pdf
Unfortunately still can't stop someone from importing the PDF into Word anyway 🫠
Midnight WolfWe don’t interact with those people
Unfortunately ceasing interaction with those people ceases the interaction of their money and your bank account 😔
Nikelui“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.
dohpaz42Print as PDF, then screenshot the opened PDF, and OCR it back into word before printing to PDF be last time.
You forgot printing it on paper and scanning it back to pdf
Macaroni_ninjaJust put the pc screen on the scanner like a normal person
But don’t forget to do a bad crop.
And jpeg it to death.
And add an iFunny watermark.
AdrianTheFrogMake sure to take a photo and line up the camera to find the most distinctive moire pattern you can, for extra style
Circle of life
olenkoMy 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)
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)
LumidaubSomething something porn delivery file
tetris11And 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
KualdirJust 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.
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.
If the company is that incompetent, I’d only wanted to work there if I’m really desperate. I’d hope it never comes to this.
Might be different where you live or in your sector, but no competent company in Germany would go with AI summaries. The chance that the AI misses a statement that the applicant might be disabled and could sue for discrimination is too high.
Also, we have to open CVs in the browser within the hiring application, download is not allowed for data security reasons. The renderer for Word files is definitely not good enough to guarantee that the files render correctly.
Personally, we’re looking for highly skilled people in a specialized field, I’d never trust an AI summary, but we’re also not being swarmed by applicants. If the company looks for a barista, your approach might be better. But proofing computer literacy is not really necessary then anyway.
On top of that, for us presentation and the general “vibe” of the application matters (actually only the CV - the blurb on why applicant’s greatest dream would be to work at our company and similar fluff is useless anyway) If you only read an AI summary you miss out on interesting bits and potential red flags. After all we choose to invite not only based on listed skills and certs but we need to make sure that the personality fits into the existing team. And yes, combing through hundreds/thousands of applications is a shitload of manual work.
I don’t think the cover letter is always useless. It often shows, whether the applicant understood the role correctly and how their skills fit into the requirements. The motivational blabla of course is just annoying for everyone involved.
but no competent company in Germany would go with AI summaries.
Germany tends to be a little behind when it comes to tech, but if you submit your CV as PDF to LinkedIn via the “EasyApply” button, you can bet that there is automated filtering happening to weed down the applicants from 1000 to 10
If you use LinkedIn to apply, simple tip: don’t. The filter is usually “remove anyone applying through LinkedIn”
I feel like an ideal is being touted here, at odd ends to the vast reality of how people are currently applying for hobs.
Sadly, some companies only advertise through LinkedIn and it’s not possible to apply otherwise.
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.
Word is sadly the defacto way to get a foot in through the door
Definitely not where I live
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.
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
fossilesquerxresu.me (FOSS, option to self host)
You’re welcome, chat.
Or, for the Europeans in the audience: 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.
Yes but the reverse isn't true: one of the best is not necessarily the best. They start off with the better claim then water it down! Clearly the entire EU is just in it for the views and ad revenue!!
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
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?
HatchetHaroi 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.
ChocobofangirlIt’s also the most unbiased word for referring to a group in a gender neutral way I’ve seen lol most others have implications of status (gentlepersons, folks), are still technically gendered (guys, not to mention this implies relatively young people too), or overbroad (everybody is well, everybody. Chat implies you’re addressing your community or a small group since they’re the ones who would be talking to you).
Folks or yall though. “That’s all y’all” is delightful to say
Wait "folks" has a status implication? IS NO WORD SIMPLY UNPROBLEMATIC!? IS NOTHING SACRED FROM THIS LINGUISTIC HELL
the way i see it, “folks” can refer to a more traditional group of people, most likely rural, and you wouldn’t call nobles or people of other high status “folks”.
but also i doubt people think it is problematic; it’s just a quirk of the English language that “chat” emerged basically out of nowhere with the closest analogue being “audience”.
the way i see it, “folks” can refer to a more traditional group of people, most likely rural, and you wouldn’t call nobles or people of other high status “folks”.
But you’d call nobles or high status people “chat”?
i’d call them “pricks” but you do you
I meant more that chat implies it could be literally anyone because it’s anonymous. Like when the game’s developer or some guy with 100k followers suddenly drops in to a little guy’s stream. You wouldn’t know unless they announced themselves lol