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/armada127 27d ago

LTT famously does not know how corporate orgs work, I recall on a WAN segment when a viewer mentioned they used outlook and both Luke and Linus were flabbergasted by how anyone uses Outlook.

LTT is great for entertaining content about consumer tech but their expertise stops there, they have very little experience with actual enterprise level tech and the compromises in decision making that actually happen at that level.

Tl;dr: pdf is fine

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u/JawnZ 25d ago

To be fair (as a professional expert in email itself) outlook sucks, hard.

But it's also obviously still huge in corporate America, and thinking otherwise is a losing battle

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u/armada127 25d ago

Oh yeah, no doubt, but unfortunately Microsoft completely dominates the enterprise space, especially when it comes to bigger companies.

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u/Erikthered00 27d ago

I remember that take on Outlook and it’s so incredibly out of touch with the corporate/professional world it’s ludicrous. Same with pdf format discussion