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LinkedIn deliberately scrambles résumé PDFs, experts say

Posted on March 22, 2021 at 01:08 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 18.11 • 2021-03-22

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By Brian Livingston

LinkedIn — the foremost social network for working professionals, with 760 million members in more than 200 countries — constantly changes the format of its PDF résumés to make it hard for companies to search for possible job applicants, according to human-resource consultants.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.11.0 (2021-03-22).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.11.F (2021-03-22).

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