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As someone who has applied for a lot of jobs in the past year and loves TeX, it's a bad idea for applicants. Greenhouse consistently pulls data incorrectly from resumes made in TeX and this puts you at a huge disadvantage within a pool of applicants. My response rate went up massively as soon as I abandoned my well-crafted TeX resume and went to a bare-bones resume made in Apple Pages.

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I never knew about this...is this true for resumes converted to pdf from latex? Is there a way I can check my resume to see if it is getting parsed correctly?

I'd say it's true for any nonstandard pdf form resume; I don't use latex to make mine but I've yet to find an application tool that actually pulled my information correctly. I keep a plain text version which I use for the upload portion then when I get to the attachments portion (typically trying to get a cover letter out of me) I remove the plain one and add my nice pdf version. Saves tons of headaches dealing with the various application software. If I think they'll be doing the processing after app submission, I'll send both versions. I've even had hiring managers flat out ask for plain text resumes too.

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