The whispering is all in her head and says she sucks

  • Grappling7155@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Nah she’s talking about the ATS systems that filter through all the applicants’ resumes looking for the ones with the highest amount of matching keywords so they can get the number of applicants down to a more reasonable number to interview.

    They don’t care if their bots don’t work for your PDF resume because they get so many applicants it doesn’t matter.

    I’m surprised this isn’t common knowledge for jobseekers.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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      2 months ago

      It is common knowledge.

      Bots can scrape PDFs.

      I had about 50 applications of proof where bots scraped the information from my PDF and auto-filled it into the next forms which are again simply re-typing in all of the information from your resume again (which most medium or large companies use anyway which makes the entire point moot). They can scrape PDFs unless you hand-write your resume with bad handwriting so the OCR can’t pick it up.

      Unless they got their ATS system from aliexpress, it can scrape PDFs.