Solution: print as pdf
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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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
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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 😔
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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?
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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
I've had recruiters ask for TXT format, which honestly was awesome.
Resumes in JSON when?
"Whats this gap in your resume?"
"Syntax error"
I see for past experience you put :
CREATE TABLE Resume (
Field VARCHAR(255) PRIMARY KEY,
Value VARCHAR(255)
);
INSERT INTO Resume (Field, Value) VALUES
('Experience_1_Title', ''),
('Experience_1_Company', ''),
('Experience_1_Years', ''),
('Experience_1_Description', '.'),
('Experience_2_Title', ''),
('Experience_2_Company', ''),
('Experience_2_Years', ''),
('Experience_2_Description', '.'),
('Skills_1', ''),
('Skills_2', ''),
('Skills_3', ''),
('Skills_4', ''),
('Education_Degree', ''),
('Education_Years', '),
('References', '');
SELECT Field, Value FROM Resume;
-- Bonus Query: Show my most "impressive" skill
SELECT Value FROM Resume WHERE Field = 'Skills_1';
-- Another Bonus: My career trajectory
SELECT Field, Value FROM Resume WHERE Field LIKE 'Experience%';`___`
Did you put some BBS-style ansi art in there?
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Exactly.
Even if everything is in order, I def assume a lower digital literacy.
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“Can you explain this kerning?”
“For reasons I cannot understand, you set your system font to Copperplate Gothic.”
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.
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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 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).
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It's how twitch streamers collectively address their viewers. It's basically just announcing you're going to have a soapbox moment
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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
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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.
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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
If I don't get the resume on a clay tablet I'll just assume they don't know shit.
"I spent 6 hours writing this on papyrus scrolls, and you want clay tablets."
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!
What is ATS?
Right, it's a tool companies use to automatically scan and reject resumes based on keywords.
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This is why my resume is a pdf uwu
Print it out and scan it and print it back to a 300MB PDF.
Formats? (Laughs in Linux)
I was following the Grateful Dead from 1985 to 1995.
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