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The whispering is all in her head and says she sucks

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[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 hour ago

These people just want to remove your contact data so they can make money off your back.

Real recruiters find candidates and setup a meeting between you and the company. They also don't care about eventually sending your contact details as their services are actually worth giving them money.

Stupid recruiters that post on LinkedIn arguing about your resume like in the OP just edit your details out and send companies a handful of resumes. They make money from simply being a glorified proxy.

"Chief Candidate Whisperer", like what the actual fuck.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

9/10 applicants who submit their resume as a PDF for our openings, we can't view.

Can't, or won't?

[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If you can't open 90% of pdfs sent from different sources then you're the problem

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I don’t want to work somewhere if they can’t even open a PDF. The fuck kind of Windows 3.1 machines are they using.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago

chief candidate whisperer

are they looking to hire a horse?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

I'm going to take a stab and say she's a recruiter for a third party staffing company.

They REQUIRE word docs so that they can copy and paste or edit your resume on their template.

Pro tip: take the requirements that they send you and Google search for it. Apply directly with the company and cut them out.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 10 points 3 hours ago

The recruiters also like to remove your name and contact details so that the companies they are selling you to can't bypass the recruiter.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Unless you open the pdf in gimp or something (and it's not just a photo, which would be equally bad in a word document) you should be able to copy from a PDF too.

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[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean her profile says she works for "First Search" which sound like a middle man for sure.

And "Chief Candidate Whisperer"? Wtf. Don't get me started.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

is she the person you’re supposed to hire when your Chief Candidates are out of control?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 hours ago

"Is the cheif candidate with us in the room now?"

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

not sure this is a great tip. Only jobs I got past 1st stage with this year was through a recruiter, applying solo got me auto booted from over 120 jobs.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A recruiter is a networker that you're paying.

They have networked with the hiring manager, developing a rapport,

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[–] nick@midwest.social 80 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

“Portable Document Format”. If they can’t open it, fuck them, you don’t want to work for that tire fire.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 hours ago

The HR department might be shite, but the data team might be good.

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 43 points 7 hours ago

This is SovCit level.

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 304 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

If your organization is such a clusterfuck that you can't figure out how to open a PDF, then I'm going to consider that a bullet dodged.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Fuck them for not putting the requirement on the application and wasting everyone's time though

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 55 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Literally every single browser can open a PDF.

Is she admitting that their organization only uses discontinued, insecure Internet Explorer to use the internet? Is she also opening word files in Microsoft word 2005?

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Nah she’s talking about the ATS systems that filter through all the applicants’ resumes looking for the ones with the highest amount of matching keywords so they can get the number of applicants down to a more reasonable number to interview.

They don’t care if their bots don’t work for your PDF resume because they get so many applicants it doesn’t matter.

I’m surprised this isn’t common knowledge for jobseekers.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I recently found an ad requiring knowledge of win2000/XP

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 66 points 10 hours ago (10 children)

Our front desk person, on the computer all day, barely understands how tabs work.

It's scary.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 93 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Well duh...PDF stands for "portable document file", not "readable document file".
You can send it, but no one can read it.

You should use readable text files (RTF) instead.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ahhhh! I finally understand what UTF means now!

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[–] Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 65 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

:::slaps knee::: ohhh that’s Rich

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 86 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

They want it as a word doc so they can edit it and fuck with it before passing it along.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 50 points 10 hours ago

They also like this for the off chance you forgot to disable revision history - so they can look at how you edited the document over time.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 44 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

This isn’t even necessarily for nefarious reasons. I’ve actually had a case where HR was trying to help by putting in the words that they were stupidly required to find in a resume.

Still not a good sign of a properly functioning organization.

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[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 52 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Can't open a PDF? Fine, here is a JPEG of my resume.

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[–] AgaveInMyAss@lemmy.world 64 points 10 hours ago (8 children)

.txt file it is

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 54 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

.txt file

80 characters wide

With cool ASCII art, like those pirated software readme files. (Looking at you, Razor 1911)

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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 58 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry I can't see this picture, can you upload it as a word document please?

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 49 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I used to do layout and design for children’s books. I cannot tell you the number of times I requested an image to be edited, or a higher resolution version, only to be sent a word doc with the image inside the document.

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I asked someone to send me an image once (I think their logo) and they wanted to know if I prefer word or excel format?

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

When you email a graphic artist and ask them if they can send the file with layers and they send you an xls document with extra workbook tabs you know you are in for a fun day.

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