GICG046: Will my job application be rejected by resume bots if I submitted a PDF file?

Update: 2016-05-16

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This week's question is from Travis, who asks "I am a recent computer science graduate. I applied for a tester job at Ubisoft and, following your advice, I submitted everything as a PDF file. But I recently listened to another podcast that said big companies, like Ubisoft, don't actually read resumes, computers do, and that we should use a plain resume with specific fonts and save it as a Microsoft word or a TXT file so the computer can parse the information. Is this true? Is my application going to be overlooked because I submitted PDF files?"

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http://www.gameindustrycareerguide.com/resume

http://www.gameindustrycareerguide.com/tester

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