Will my job application be rejected by resume bots if I submitted a PDF file?
In this episode of Game Industry Career Guide Podcast, I answer a question from Travis, who asks “I am a recent computer science graduate. I applied for a tester job at Ubisoft and, following your advice, I submitted everything as a PDF file. But I recently listened to another podcast that said big companies, like Ubisoft, don’t actually read resumes, computers do, and that we should use a plain resume with specific fonts and save it as a Microsoft word or a TXT file so the computer can parse the information. Is this true? Is my application going to be overlooked because I submitted PDF files?”
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why big game companies use machine learning software to filter resumes
- Whether certain file formats and fonts might cause problems for your application
- A clever trick you can use to find out what’s allowed by any company’s resume-reading software
