3 ms·

Do you think Resumes made in LaTeX get screwed by the HR robot screening programs that scan documents for keywords? I mean, if your document has some weird form

Do you think Resumes made in LaTeX get screwed by the HR robot screening programs that scan documents for keywords? I mean, if your document has some weird formatting going on, I could see the program miss some crucial keywords buried inside a nested table or something

sokoloff 8y ago
And if this screwing is happening, would that make you more or less likely to use LaTeX to create your resume? It would make me more likely to use it...
- hopler 8y ago
  Sure, if you enjoy being unemployed because you only want to work at a mythical company that tailors their HR processes to your obscure formatting preferences, or is so undesirable that they have time to read all resumes that come in.
  - sokoloff 8y ago
    I don't know if enjoy is the right word, but prefer is certainly correct. Sending someone a resume as a PDF file generated from LaTeX is far from an obscure format.
    - raghava 8y ago
      Now a days, pretty much everyone uses an automated resume parser.