I've heard that advice as well, but I have a hard time explaining how it would be all that important. PDFs are editable, after all, you'd just have to spend a few minutes looking up a tool. So that would just cut out the absolute laziest or most incurious of scammers, right? How much value could there really be in that?
harder to automate, which is the real reason why companies don't like pdf.
every company/hiring startup is making tools to just feed your word docs into the system and then highlight candidates based on whatever the company values
every company/hiring startup is making tools to just feed your word docs
Whereas pdftotext tools have been there since forever.
I've written tools to try and extract text from docx files programmatically (not CVs but citations and footnote citations) and I seriously doubt "hiring startups" wouldn't just ask you to fill a web form.
(As a matter of fact, I'm low key job hunting and what I've seen typically is that the systems try to extract the text from my non-standard formatting latex-made pdf, and then pre-fill a form. The form is usually right but needs fixes here and there. It's a good approach.)
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I've heard that advice as well, but I have a hard time explaining how it would be all that important. PDFs are editable, after all, you'd just have to spend a few minutes looking up a tool. So that would just cut out the absolute laziest or most incurious of scammers, right? How much value could there really be in that?
harder to automate, which is the real reason why companies don't like pdf. every company/hiring startup is making tools to just feed your word docs into the system and then highlight candidates based on whatever the company values
Whereas pdftotext tools have been there since forever.
I've written tools to try and extract text from docx files programmatically (not CVs but citations and footnote citations) and I seriously doubt "hiring startups" wouldn't just ask you to fill a web form.
(As a matter of fact, I'm low key job hunting and what I've seen typically is that the systems try to extract the text from my non-standard formatting latex-made pdf, and then pre-fill a form. The form is usually right but needs fixes here and there. It's a good approach.)
Yeah, but it’s still more work, which has to be done by humans and not automated.
The thing they hate most in life is to be forced to do actual human work, especially when they are processing all those résumés and CVs.
I mean, they have to feed the machine somehow, and you’re making them do real work during that process?!?