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Maybe they should be asking themselves the same questions if they are just ignoring most of the candidates because they are too lazy to get a pdf reader. I'm sure they aren't getting the best people with that approach.
The problem is they expect everyone to jump through hoops for them as if all the candidates are the same and they just need to pick one.
You don't even need a dedicated PDF reader, many (most?) browsers have a PDF reader built-in. You need extra software to see word processor documents, you don't to see a PDF.
If a company is so incompetent that a PDF isn't sufficient (or even preferred), that's not a company I want to deal with anyway.
All 3 of them do. You have to work at it to find one that doesn't support reading PDFs, unless you happen to still be using Internet Explorer in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Four
Had a job posting asking candidates to go on a goosehunt to find pictures of a landmark at some coordinates they provided, under the guise of "this proves you have attention to detail"... sod off.
And I don't know why some posting still require CVs... like they don't realize ChatGPT exists to write the fluff that they aren't going to read.
Seriously, job opportunities have almost always been a numbers game, there's an opportunity cost to investing time in these games that could be better spent applying to more jobs.
Actually, I do read the fluff. Not HR though, just the technical approver whether the candidate's skillset looks up to the task.
Had one candidate whose letter claimed their experience in one field would be valuable for their work with us. Indeed, they did have plenty of experience in it. If that was the field I was working in, I'd have considered them a great fit.
Unfortunately, we're a different field. Not that it would disqualify them - I'm the last person to hold a lazy copy-paste-fill template against anyone. I hate those things too. I just found that slip-up amusing.
(And I also wouldn't hold a will to switch tracks against them either. I didn't even know anything about my field four years ago, but now I love it.)