Hiring software turns your CV into plain text before anyone reads it. Whatever does not survive that step is lost: the recruiter’s search cannot find it, and the software may leave the field empty. These are six common problems.
1. Contact details in the page header
The header area in Word is often skipped. Put your phone number and email in the body of the first page, as plain text.
2. Contact details inside a picture
A phone number inside an image, or a line of icons with no words, cannot be read at all. Type it out.
3. The whole CV built inside a table
Tables and two-column layouts can mix up the reading order, so a job title ends up next to the wrong dates. Use one column with clear headings.
4. Skills shown as bars or stars
A bar that is 80% full tells the software nothing. Write the skill in words, and add a level only if it helps: “Excel: pivot tables, lookups”.
5. A section that is only a picture
Some templates turn a whole section into an image. If you cannot select the text with your mouse, the software cannot read it either.
6. A scanned PDF
A photographed or scanned CV has no text in it. Save your CV from Word or Google Docs as a PDF or DOCX instead.
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