Tor browsers, vpns, no chrome, no google, no gmail.

kagi is the best search engine right now. hands down. google can suck it.

PDF is a typesetting format. Behind the scenes, every letter is placed on the page at a specific x,y coordinate. parsing text out of a pdf is essentially a series of guesses. sometimes the algorithm guesses wrong. PDF was invented for perfect layouts for printing.

Word docs are a text-based format. It’s very easy to correctly pull text from a Word doc.

Why risk an ai parsing a pdf incorrectly? There is no upside.

Formatting, fonts, and file format are very important. Certai. formats like PDF are harder to scrape. 2 or more colums cause the A.I. to get confused. Sometimes the scanners have trouble with fo ta with heavy kerning.

i would suggest ms word, with the default font, and a single colum. Dont get fancy with the formatting.

Also, there are a couple of online services that will use a.i. to score your resume. Find a service that uses the same ranking algo as the popular recruiting tools such as greenhouse and workday.

It sucks, but your resume has to get past the a.i. screener before it ever reaches a human.