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Re:The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs by alkonaut on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @03:51AM (#35871358)
But regardless of whether you wrote your resume in word or LaTeX, 99% of the time you'd send it as a PDF, correct? So are you saying LaTeX pdfs will parse worse than Word PDF's in automatic systems?
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Re:The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs by red-iron-pine on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:37PM (#35877764)
In my experience, yes.
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Re:The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs by siggen on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:57AM (#35886655)
What I am saying is when I last ran this experiment a few years back word .doc formatted files (didn’t check .docx) returned the most calls from recruiters in comparison to .txt or .pdf or .html.
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