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Please stop with crap resume sites

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Look -- jobvite sucks. Jobscore sucks. They badly scan my resume and butcher it. They don't take pdf uploads (at least not on squareup). I tried to apply at TellApart and jobscore not only wanted me to register but wants me to proof their crap extraction of my resume! (with the warning message that they show their bad extraction before my actual pdf resume.) Thanks, but no thanks.

Look -- if you want to hire engineers, put a person in charge of hiring them. Give people an email address. Accept pdf resumes. Don't run crap ocr/scan/extraction software. Don't dump me into a company (jobscore) that tries to, by default, dump my resume in a pool so other companies can spam me. I don't want to be spammed just because I shared my resume with you.

Thanks, an engineer looking for a new employer

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I built a resume site some time back. I'd like to know my suck rating.

http://www.cvstash.com

So this is an online resume? Not really a job board. +1 for being on github. very cool for being open.

PDF resumes? do serious people really use anything other than .txt?

.txt resumes? do serious people really use anything other than latex? (couldn't resist, sorry)

.doc comes to mind

yeah, they all /ask/ for .doc format, but if you see what the hiring manager gets? it's mangled crap. Text would be far more readable. I'd bet money that .txt (or ascii in a file that happens to be named .doc) works better with the buzzword bingo software the recruiters use.

The question was whether 'serious people' use something other than plain text files.

The answer is yes, they do. And honestly I have no idea what this is about since a .txt resume would look like rather bleak.

Your answer seems to be about something else. When I email a MS Office document to a prospective employer, they do not get 'mangled crap'. Why would they? I'm not talking about recruiters or the lousy job sites the rest of the thread is about.

the "serious people" remark is a joke. I use the xml resume library and generate several formats from my xml source, not that I am a particularly serious person. Now, I do use txt if I need to actually attach a resume. As far as I can tell, the document management systems recruiters use that want .doc format are, uh, not very good at all.

But, from looking through resumes from a recruiter, I do stand by my 'mangled crap' comment. I don't know what they do with the things, but half of them come up formatted horribly. My guess is that the system recruiters use to strip off contact info and do keyword searches combines with some subtle version incompatibility in Microsoft products.

http://www.storyvite.com/ is an interesting way of presenting your professional skills.

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