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Quaint to think so, but no. If a system is using automated scanning and the document doesn’t scan correctly the recruiter is not going through the ones that didn’t work.

I’d wager in many cases they aren’t even aware of an failure to process a resume occurring.



Also in the eventual human review if you have made yours illegible on purpose, you probably lose any advantage you gained with passing te very low bar of automatic filtering




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