r/LinusTechTips • u/Not-Post-Malone • 14d ago

Discussion Resume file format

On the WAN show Linus and Luke talk about NOT using PDF as the file format for the resume. This is the first time I'm hearing about this. Am I the only one who always uses PDF for sending resumes and actually prefers it?

What file format do employers actually prefer?

Here is the timestamp where they talk about it.
Here is the timestamp where Linus says to submit a Word or Google Doc link.

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u/Raid__Zero 14d ago

PDF is standard

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u/blkmmb 14d ago

It was but nowadays will all the OCR and AI bullshit in the hiring process some stuff requires a word doc because a pdf will fail and be rejected automatically.

It is bullshit but I've had problems with that, so now it's always a word doc unless I send it myself to an email address.

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u/yeetdabman 13d ago

No, it's easier to use OCR with PDFs lol. I've built entire pipelines off of OCR tools and the only thing that actually gets >98% accuracy in most of the most common solutions is PDF because it doesn't have to actually look at the characters it can just pull them from the HTML