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I wonder if there's any advantage in using fonts and layout that are adversarial to automated resume processing, as in if something fails to scan then perhaps a
by ravenstine 5y ago
I wonder if there's any advantage in using fonts and layout that are adversarial to automated resume processing, as in if something fails to scan then perhaps a human is more likely to actually look at it. But perhaps HR just throws those out.
- viraptor 5y agoDoes anyone OCR? The systems I've heard of just extract the text from PDFs/docs. Then if some bits cannot be extracted, I was asked to type them myself.
- dpeck 5y agoQuaint to think so, but no. If a system is using automated scanning and the document doesn’t scan correctly the recruiter is not going through the ones that didn’t work. I’d wager in many cases they aren’t even aware of an failure to process a resume occurring.
- redisman 5y agoAlso in the eventual human review if you have made yours illegible on purpose, you probably lose any advantage you gained with passing te very low bar of automatic filtering
- pyrale 5y agoSome people do add an emoji in their name on linkedIn to know whether they are being contacted by someone who read the page, or by a bot.
- b112 5y agoAwesome! I may adopt this. Thanks