[liquidcool]

Got an application from a developer that looked terrible. Was ready to dismiss it, when I happened to notice there were patterns to the garbage, and it was really too terrible for anyone. Asked her to send me the original and I found the culprit:

It was two columns.

That was all it took to throw off the resume parser at Indeed of all places. So what you're doing will be hopelessly destroyed by any resume parser out there. That is likely the reason for the performance.

[mixmastamyk]

There’s no reliable way to parse a resume, mine is a pdf, and almost all sites ask for additional fields anyway.

[mixmastamyk]

Just read this again. Are you telling me job sites are trying to parse resumes and deleting the originals?