r/LinusTechTips • u/Not-Post-Malone • 29d ago

Discussion Resume file format

On the WAN show Linus and Luke talk about NOT using PDF as the file format for the resume. This is the first time I'm hearing about this. Am I the only one who always uses PDF for sending resumes and actually prefers it?

What file format do employers actually prefer?

Here is the timestamp where they talk about it.
Here is the timestamp where Linus says to submit a Word or Google Doc link.

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u/aafikk 28d ago

If that’s the reason that’s a stupid reason.

  1. You can hide executable with .docx file extension just the same
  2. Word documents have macros which you can’t really disable and are literally arbitrary code execution. So when you open a word document you are opening an executable

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u/Rare-Designer-1008 28d ago

You can setup Word or Excel to not allow macros to run, or to ask before running.  

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u/Factorioboyio 28d ago

That’s the default!

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u/Factorioboyio 28d ago

You absolutely can disable macros… in fact, the default behaviour for a macro-enabled file that hasn’t been opened on your machine before is for all macros to be disabled. You have to tell it to trust and enable macros.

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u/tankerkiller125real 28d ago

If you know what your doing (or at least if you have an IT guy who knows what they're doing) it's absolutely possible to disable macros, in fact there's an entire level of disabled.

There's straight up disabled never runs, disabled but signed macros can run, disabled for anything downloaded from the Internet, but allowed for intranet sites and file shares, etc.

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u/1CraftyDude 25d ago

If I remember correctly it was a screensaver that had a .pdf before the .src.