Tagged “testing”
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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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When Your Resume Is a Picture
Image-based PDFs and outlined text extract as nothing at all. How to tell whether your file contains real text, and what OCR does and does not fix.
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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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When the Application Form Autofills From Your Resume
Autofill shows you the parser's output for free. How to read those prefilled boxes as a diagnostic, and what to fix in the file afterwards.
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Why the Same Resume Parses Differently
One file, two employers, two different records. The sources of variation between parsers, and how to build a resume that survives all of them.