Com2Kid's Journal: Resume submission pages that strip newlines

Apparently companies pay large sums of money to purchase (or use the services of) resume submission systems that all SUCK.

IBM's[1] strips out ALL newlines, even from plain text. Even resumes generated through their own resume builder look horrible.

PDF, Word, ok, maybe I can understand not supporting. But not even supporting plain text is a huge WTF...

I spend hours making my resume look perfect, and these resume submission sites do their best to mess it up!

[1] Not IBM's fault per say, just Taleo or PeopleClick or whoever it is that they use.

It's a test

[TechnoLust]

If someone can't reverse engineer their submission page and send in a pretty resume, they don't deserve the job. ;-)

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[Com2Kid]

That is what I think some times, but certain submission pages go beyond the inane.

The worst one I saw stripped everything except for spaces. No newlines even!

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[TechnoLust]

YEah, it tests basic math skills. Can you determine the number of columns, subtract the number of letters and "letterbound" spaces, and then subtract to get the number of trailing spaces needed on that line? ;-)