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[–] [email protected] 94 points 5 days ago (3 children)

If you send your resume in word format and not pdf or even image, I did not open it at all.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I've had recruiters reject anything that isn't in word format.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's because they can easily edit it or change it before sending it out

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's why pdf, it has annotation feature while being not editable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

PDFs are absolutely editable, but usually you need paid application for that. Thanks to some dumbassery in my previous job, I had to use the paid version of Adobe because I regularly had to edit PDFs. There are some security options that can make PDFs more challenging to edit, even with the paid tools, but I've always found ways around those too, usually by simply using "Print to PDF", then editing the output file.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think you can open PDFs in libreoffice and edit them, although you have to manually reexport as pdf when you're done

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Oh sweet! I just did a super quick test on a random file and it definitely handled my very basic editing tasks easily, and the new PDF lets me copy/paste text from it the way I'd expect it to. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Okular also supports pdf editing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you're applying somewhere that's annotating the file instead of printing it out and writing on it in pen, they should be able to buy an enterprise license for some PDF editor or other. Or the knowledge to find a free PDF editor somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Okular has annotations and signing

Inkscape can let you edit evrything

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Yes, you can. But it's not made for that and you shouldn't. And is that process lossless?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t is possible to send a Word doc in read only mode? I’ve been sending mine PDF as I search recently but some companies do require a docx or at least have in the past

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Dunno. Maybe there's a flag and the other side uses MS office too, follows that flag. But at least keep a copy, if you send as docx.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I've had recruiters ask for TXT format, which honestly was awesome.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Whats this gap in your resume?"

"Syntax error"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

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%';`___`
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Did you put some BBS-style ansi art in there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

greetz in the resume!! hell yeah

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

And I reject their job offers. When I think at how much time I have to write justification of my work in some kind of numerical format, I won't want to be dealing with he standard of someone who doesn't know the different of a working document and finish content to be send to the world.
I'm privileged enough to be able to screen out big red flags out and not needed to find rapidly the next paycheck at the cost of my mental and physical health and I must use that privilege.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Image?

He's a gif of my CV, just pause it to read the pages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You have no idea what crazy idea people in the communication field have implemented in CV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Exactly.
Even if everything is in order, I def assume a lower digital literacy.