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Speaking from experience, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) work only ideally with Word. Don’t use LaTeX unless you know for sure the individual receiving apprec
by siggen 3y ago
Speaking from experience, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) work only ideally with Word. Don’t use LaTeX unless you know for sure the individual receiving appreciates it.
- dunk010 3y agoCame here to say this. It’s definitely a bad idea given that so much first stage screening is automated these days. If your CV parses badly you’re just as likely to be silently binned by an algorithm. I say this from personal experience, and now having begrudgingly rolled my CV back from LaTeX to Word.
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoOn my recent job search, I basically only got responses from smaller companies, and I'm now suspicious that this was the reason.
- alkonaut 3y agoBut regardless of whether you wrote your resume in word or LaTeX, 99% of the time you'd send it as a PDF, correct? So are you saying LaTeX pdfs will parse worse than Word PDF's in automatic systems?
- red-iron-pine 3y agoIn my experience, yes.
- siggen 3y agoWhat I am saying is when I last ran this experiment a few years back word .doc formatted files (didn’t check .docx) returned the most calls from recruiters in comparison to .txt or .pdf or .html.