Tagged “formatting”
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What a Parser Does With Your Links
Hyperlinked text, mailto links and QR codes often lose the address during extraction. How to write a link that survives being turned into plain text.
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What a Page Break Does to a Parsed Resume
A second page adds running headers, page numbers and split job entries to the text stream. What extraction does with each, and how to keep them harmless.
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The Characters That Extract Wrong
Ligatures, subsetted fonts, icon glyphs and smart punctuation can corrupt individual characters during extraction. How to spot and fix each one.
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Where One Job Entry Ends and the Next Begins
Parsers have to cut your work history into separate records. What tells them where the cut goes, and what happens when the cut lands wrong.
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How to Test Your Resume Like a Parser Would
Four free checks that show you what software extracts from your resume, so you can fix formatting problems before you submit anything.
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Job Titles, Dates, and the Fields Parsers Look For
How software identifies your employers, titles, and date ranges — and the small formatting choices that make a job land in the wrong place.
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What a Resume Parser Actually Sees
A step-by-step walk through how software turns your resume file into structured fields — extraction, reading order, sectioning, and field matching.
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Why Your Two-Column Resume Breaks
Columns, tables, and text boxes look tidy and parse badly. Here's exactly what happens to the text inside them — and what to use instead.
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Parser Confidence and the Unclassified Block
Parsers guess, and record how sure they are. What happens to text a parser cannot classify, and how to stop producing any.
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Where a Skill Has to Appear to Be Found
A skill in a graphic, a footer, or a shredded sidebar does not exist in the parsed record. Where text has to sit to survive extraction.