[Reprint]Which file format should be used for resumes: Word, PDF, HTML or plain text?

In the era of recruitment where the Internet is popular, resumes are stored in computer files. Common formats include Word, PDF,

My suggestion is that plain text (TXT) format is the best. MS Word is the most common word processing software, so many people use Word format for their resumes. Word has rich typeset instructions, table processing and font selection functions. Some girls also added color photos to their resumes in an attempt to impress recruiters. Others use boldface and italics to highlight key content. Friends with a higher level of computer use will also use PDF format. PDF is the abbreviation of Portable

Document Format, which is translated into Chinese as Portable Document Format.

Use Adobe's Adobe

Reader software to read documents with the .PDF format suffix. The advantage of the PDF format is that the file format has nothing to do with the operating system. That is to say, the PDF file does not matter whether it is in Microsoft Windows,

Unix or Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac

OS operating system are common in all. Resumes in PDF

format cannot be easily modified.

Many people have their own personal homepages and can put their resumes on the Internet. The file format used is HTML

(Hyper Text Markup

Language). That is Hypertext Markup Language, which is a web format.

ATS (Applicant Tracking System). Today's large companies use ATS

software to manage applicant resume databases. The resume you submit via email will be converted into a plain text file after ATS format conversion.

Due to the different versions of Word, PDF, HTML

, the line spacing, word spacing, left and right alignment, etc. after format conversion have greatly changed, and sometimes even Garbled characters. In this way, the Word

formatted resume that you spent a lot of time carefully formatting may finally be displayed on the recruiter's computer screen as a bunch of jagged and lopsided text.

So, the safest and cleanest resume format is plain text. In addition, because computer viruses are rampant, many people are reluctant to open email attachments. Plain text files can be easily pasted into the body of an email.