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Took me 3 months to realize I was formatting my resume wrong

I kept wondering why I wasn't getting callbacks after applying to 40+ jobs in Phoenix. Then a recruiter buddy looked at my resume and said I was using the wrong file type, sending PDFs when their system only reads .docx. Anybody else run into dumb formatting rules that killed your applications?
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willow244
willow2441mo ago
Wait, PDFs are actually killing applications? I thought PDFs were like the safe option everyone recommended. That's wild that some systems just straight up reject them for no reason.
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mary_schmidt
Wait, doesn't the ATS just print the PDF anyway?
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