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deedy / Deedy-Resume

A one page , two asymmetric column resume template in XeTeX that caters to an undergraduate Computer Science student
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Improper rendering by (supposed) Applicant Tracking System (ATS) #38

Closed wilfredom closed 6 years ago

wilfredom commented 6 years ago

I uploaded to Jobscan, a site that purports to mimic how an Applicant Tracking System processes resumes before a person sees them. Roughly, an ATS will extract the text from the resume and keep it (or not) based on how many key words in the resume match those in the job description. E.g., if the job description says "Beautiful LaTeX documents" 3 times, and the resume doesn't have the phrase once, it might get tossed out.

What I noticed is that some words get mushed together, and so the above becomes BeautifulLatexdocuments, which obviously doesn't count as a match.

Apparently one solution involves using replacement text with the accsupp package, but that's about as far as I've gotten. Would there be a way to use that package and fix the entire document in one go, or would I have to go section by section?

wilfredom commented 6 years ago

Thanks to a bounty on stackexchange: the issue has to do with interword space, and can be addressed by tweaking the interword space, e.g., \fontspec[..., WordSpace = {1.2, 1, 0}]