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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.
[See the full post at: LinkedIn deliberately scrambles résumé PDFs, experts say]
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The graphics for this article in the Newsletter and here at AskWoody are the wrong images. They are leftovers from last week’s article. Please fix.
So what was the injunction mentioned in the article actually trying to prevent? Was it trying to prevent screen-scraping of the Linked-In site contents, or was it proven that this is a deliberate attempt to thwart resume scanners? Ethically and legally, there would be a huge difference. The loss of HR software’s ability to scan resumes might be just an unintended side-effect of an attempt to protect the site’s proprietary content.
“I recommend that people make their own PDF résumé and attach it to their profile.”
Best advice in the entire article. No need for accusations against Linked-In if users do their due diligence.
-- rc primak
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Not only Linkedin then..even on askwoody newsletters LOL
Rodium, Palladium and Platinum LinkedOut!
never had the inclination to use linkedin, more self gratification and lies like all other social media junkware.
I’ll bet if recruiting HR depts actually checked their credentials, most would be fired on deception.
Peculiar this email was placed in the Gmail-Spam.
Don’t know why.
? Maybe it’s so massive/volumineus and filled with a whole lot of links and pictures, so miles away of the safe txt-only?
good advice, thank you.
but my point was that sending “heavy” emails like that is just asking for being spammed-out; and that’s not my fault, I just fished it out of the spam, that’s all.
my private answer to the sender was placed in this section, and that’s weird.
deleting texts and not answering help-email at all is unpolite.
I have been invited to join Linkedin a few times already. The first time, maybe 15 years ago, I said to myself “OK, I’ll open an account there.”
So I started doing that, and entered the usual information, a password, etc., then hit return, or something like that. But the thing was not quite done: next I got a request to add the password to my email account.
I said to myself “No way!” and right away cancelled my brand-new account. I have never again had anything to do with them and, apparently, I have managed just fine without Linkedin. I wonder if they are still doing that. Quite frankly, to me it was as if they were waving a sign in front of me, where written in big red letters it read: “Keep off this thing for your own good!!!!”
And that’s my own Linkedin story.
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV
The graphics for this article in the Newsletter and here at AskWoody are the wrong images. They are leftovers from last week’s article. Please fix.
The images have been updated and are now correct. This was my error, for which I apologize.
Interesting example of the tug of war between producers and consumers.
Producer says: Our purpose is to serve you, the consumer. In this case, to facilitate your job search, etc.
Reality: Our purpose is to be paid as much as possible for doing as little as possible, otherwise known as “get something for nothing.” In today’s world, don’t assume that you, the consumer, are the only source of revenue.
Consumer says: My purpose is to get something of value and pay as little as possible.
Reality: I too want something for nothing.
So it’s a struggle, like it has always been.
wodburt1: ” So it’s a struggle, like it has always been. ”
Yes, and also pretty one-sided struggle in this and in many other cases of a big seller vs. its may individual, isolated customers with not a lot of lawyers at their disposal and usually having to renounce their right to take legal action when accepting the terms of the EULA before being entitled to use the service, it seems to me.
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV
Explain please? There is no email reply posted in that article as I received it at Yahoo Web Mail, either in the original or in the revised version.
Note: I am a paid subscriber, so this observation only applies to the Paid Editions.
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this is a screenshot of the email-reply sent from me to you; only the last part(s) of my full familyname is erased by me (just not ment to be published here)
It was a private email, as a reply to the sender “FreeNewsletter [@] Askwoody.com” + a cc. to
“customersupport [@] askwoody.com”
Perhaps it is/was very unthoughtful of me to expect some email-return.
I think it still is very peculiar
Greetings, Respectfully ~~etc etc, Fred
Are you sure you want your email in that image?
cheers, Paul
[@] Paul-T
ofcourse not…. sorry; thank you for being so observant, very unthoughtful of me
Removed it. 🙂
The last time I checked, LinkedIn was a private network that owes its allegiance to its paying members to respect their privacy first. If I want recruiters to have my CV, I am now, and always have been, free to post a PDF laid out exactly the way I want the ATS to see it. With that in mind, my CV has been in my profile as a PDF since the year the service opened, and accounts were by invitation. That’s how long I’ve had one.
I think they are on solid ground in deliberately making it hard for the goons employed by the recruiters and HR departments to do their dirty work. Note that the recruiters and HR departments aren’t doing the work themselves; they hired a contractor, as much as anything to shield them from liability. Maybe it’s time to bring back the legal doctrine of agency.
David A. Gray
Designing for the Ages, One Challenge at a Time
Explain please? There is no email reply posted in that article as I received it at Yahoo Web Mail, either in the original or in the revised version.
Note: I am a paid subscriber, so this observation only applies to the Paid Editions.
-- rc primak
Explain please? There is no email reply posted in that article as I received it at Yahoo Web Mail, either in the original or in the revised version.
Note: I am a paid subscriber, so this observation only applies to the Paid Editions.
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[@] rc-primak : please see #2352442
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still I don’t understand why my original reply to OscarCP #post-2352123 was deleted. It was just my personal experience with LinkedIn
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