Cole Turner is a senior software engineer, based in the Bay Area (CA), who specializes in: developing web application products, seamless user experience, and cross-functional communications.
The formatting could be broken via different viewers. Not everybody is using MS Office and the doc could look super ugly and unreadable. Despite that the doc could be easy modified even by mistake. For this reasons PDF is created.
Cole Turner is a senior software engineer, based in the Bay Area (CA), who specializes in: developing web application products, seamless user experience, and cross-functional communications.
It depends. It doesn’t hurt to have both a word doc and a PDF, and transmit them both over email.
However based on the evidence, using. .doc is preferred for transmitting a resume through online forms.
When I switched from a PDF to a doc, I got more interviews because the ATS robots could understand it better, and that is the point that is made in the article.
You should never use .doc format !!!!!!
What are some of your concerns about .doc format?
The formatting could be broken via different viewers. Not everybody is using MS Office and the doc could look super ugly and unreadable. Despite that the doc could be easy modified even by mistake. For this reasons PDF is created.
It depends. It doesn’t hurt to have both a word doc and a PDF, and transmit them both over email.
However based on the evidence, using. .doc is preferred for transmitting a resume through online forms.
When I switched from a PDF to a doc, I got more interviews because the ATS robots could understand it better, and that is the point that is made in the article.
Maybe it depends on the ATS.