#0 responses for internships... any help?

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hybrid mesa
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copy+paste into jake's resume template

buoyant haven
hybrid mesa
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are u sure

buoyant haven
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Yes

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I just changed the font to make it prettier

hybrid mesa
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your resume shouldnt be pretty, keep the old font

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you want ats to be able to read it

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and different fonts can confuse it

buoyant haven
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Its the same for ATS

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Thats not how ats works

hybrid mesa
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yes it's designed to work with all fonts but your best bet is to use the fonts everyone else uses

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those are the fonts they design and test it with primarily

buoyant haven
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Ats isnt visual afaik, it just copies and pastes basically

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It works the exact same for any font

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It just matters the unicode values

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It doesnt use OCR

hybrid mesa
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incorrect

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"Most Applicant Tracking Systems use Optical Character Recognition (OCR), a special method of taking text from a document and converting it to a format optimized for data processing. While this technology is normally very accurate, it’s not completely foolproof."

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from another source
"Most Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) use the same Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems that Adobe Acrobat uses, but I would still recommend getting a second opinion"

buoyant haven
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Oh you’re right

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Still pretty sure ATS is optimized more for sans serif than serif fonts

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Anyways ignore the font, I’m not changing that

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I can confirm it autofills perfectly in workday or any other ATS I’ve used

hybrid mesa
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fair enough, content is more important

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generally you want to follow the format of xyz bullet points, so
first 1/2 bullet points talk about what you accomplished
second 1/2 bullet points talk about quantitative metrics
last 1/2 bullet points talk about what you used to accomplish it

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it's clear you did a lot of very meaningful and advanced work but imo it's not as well communicated as it could be

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you're mixing the technologies with accomplishments and metrics which weakens the overall message

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also, see if there's anything you can add to fill out your resume more. right now there's a lot of white space (also horizontally, there's several 1-3 word lines that waste space)

buoyant haven
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It seems confusing to talk about metrics without describing what you used to accomplish them in the same line

buoyant haven
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Especially a lot of those short lines is because they spill over which I cant help without either cutting them and losing info, or padding them and adding filler

tacit mason
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bro asks for help but not willing to accept help

buoyant haven
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Focusing on the specific font isn’t very helpful

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🤷‍♂️

sick crest
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@hybrid mesa how do we test how well our resume can be parsed by ats

reef furnace
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when you apply through workday, and it parses your experiences and projects well

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it means ats parsed well

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or so i like to think

hybrid mesa
hybrid mesa
sick crest
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wondering if there are free services online where i can upload my stuff to and it does it for me

reef furnace
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Just apply for jobs đź‘Ť

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The auto fill accuracy is an easy way to tell

hardy zenith
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What does 90% average mean? 3.6-3.7 gpa?

reef furnace
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im assuming they're talking about a scale of 4.0

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it would be 3.6, yes.

buoyant haven
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Its a canadian thing

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I think it converts to 4.0

buoyant haven
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Its only because people are lazy

hybrid mesa
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if you care enough

hybrid mesa
# buoyant haven Its only because people are lazy

not to pull this card but i have amazon, two of my friends have sig, i know someone with hrt, one person with google and one person with jane street. their resumes all have the same style font. there's a reason professional resumes don't use calibri

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resumes aren't supposed to be visually appealing. they're supposed to convey your experience, skills, and what you bring to the table in the most effective way possible. anything that doesnt add to that (like a modern font) is irrelevant and potentially counterproductive

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again it doesnt matter much but don't say people are lazy for doing the objective correct choice lol

reef furnace
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like

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make it easy for the recruiters

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this has been said before

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but like

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make it an easy job for them to acknowledge your experience

buoyant haven
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I know a bunch of people at hft that dont use serif font’s also lol

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Doesnt mean anything

buoyant haven
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But as long as the font is decent (aka not times new roman or calibri) its not gonna make or break it

reef furnace
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but like

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how do i put this

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jake's template just has a weird way in which it actually goes and makes a difference

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ngl just from a first glance, your resume looks like its hard to read bc it seems as if you used arial everywhere

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maybe thats what is doing it

buoyant haven
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I think its opposite, especially for technologies you usually see them in sans serif so its quicker to recognize them that way

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Also so many resumes look absolutely identical

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The goal is to make it easy to scan and find info by using a similar format, not to exactly copy every resume

little dawn
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Tirade

reef furnace
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You asked for advice, we gave it

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You don’t seem to want it so I wonder why you even posted your resume

buoyant haven
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I wanted useful advice đź’€

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Saying you prefer serif font over sans serif isnt helpful

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Jokes on me for expecting advice here I guess

sick crest
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And getting through the ats can ultimately make the difference

buoyant haven
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It all gets parsed the same

buoyant haven
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Any basic font will parse just as well

sick crest
buoyant haven
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I have

sick crest
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what 2 fonts did you compare?

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and how did you test it

buoyant haven
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Applying to jobs with the normal latex font before and now my new font and seeing how well its autofilled

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If anything this new font gets autofilled better

sick crest
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fair enough then

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you do what you want