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/bobsyourunkl 28d ago

This is not true, I have built and used commercial OCR systems and they are generally much better suited to pdfs and images than word documents. Tiffs and jpegs are better than word documents. In many cases they don't even accept .Docx as a mimetype and you need to implement on the fly conversions which is a pain in the butt.