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Automatic filtering is annoying, but there are plenty of tools that will scan your resume and tell you what keywords they find. I once spent weeks crafting a ca
by yosito 5y ago
Automatic filtering is annoying, but there are plenty of tools that will scan your resume and tell you what keywords they find. I once spent weeks crafting a catchy looking resume with a fixed width font and ascii art. It didn't get any responses, and I didn't understand why until I put it through one of these scanners and realized that the program I had used to save the PDF had strangely encoded all of the text in reverse, so I wasn't passing any of the automatic filters. The takeaway: test your resume with a scanner!
- tomc1985 5y agoIt sounds like you could have just opened the PDF that was generated to double-check it too. Sending off a derivative file without proofing seems like a big YOLO move to me
- yosito 5y agoVisually the PDF was fine. But machines were reading it backwards. Not sure why.
- srswtf123 5y agoCould you recommend a scanner?
- speeder 5y agoLinks to these scanners? Right now whenever I send one of my PDF resumes I get zero replies.
- MisterSandman 5y agoA lot of these scanners went down a few months ago when one of the API services (not sure which) stopped working, but if you have a newer link please do send!