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Personally, I hate the hurdle of the .txt only, or pasted in resume. I put a lot of effort into the layout and style of my resume, and wrote it in TeX. My knee

by Cd00d 14y ago

Personally, I hate the hurdle of the .txt only, or pasted in resume. I put a lot of effort into the layout and style of my resume, and wrote it in TeX. My knee-jerk response when people won't glance at my .pdf resume is that they are lazy, don't respect the effort that goes into design and layout, and only wish to keyword search. This may not be true of your case, just saying what my emotional response is in that situation. I agree that minor hurdles to weed out the insincere are valuable.

pjnewton 14y ago
Yeah I can see how it would be annoying. I know I wouldn't be too happy if I had to copy and paste since I also spent a good deal of time on the format. However, I think that if I really wanted "THAT" job then the few extra steps, reformatting, etc. would be worth it. Turns out it did help screen a bunch of people that were seemingly just spamming every posting with their resume along with one who copy and pasted an entire (unedited) email mail chain she used to apply to another position... Overall I'm not very happy with the performance of the posting, maybe it's my fault...