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The author describes building a test suite for their CV PDF to ensure it is parseable by applicant tracking systems, and experimentally checks whether disabling ligatures affects pdftotext output.
The article tests HackerRank's open-source ATS (hiring-agent) and finds that resume scores vary significantly across runs due to LLM non-determinism, even at low temperature, raising concerns about consistency in automated hiring evaluations.
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