i've always hated those fancy layouts but seeing how the parser just glues your job title to random skills from the side column is depressing. it's not even magic or anything, it's just bad geometry when the text fragments don't line up right. if you use a "creative" heading like
where i've made a dent instead of just saying experience, you're pretty much invisible to the indexer. does anyone actually still use columns for design?
link:
https://dev.to/mshykov/how-ats-resume-parsing-actually-works-2c2p