How Greenhouse handles your resume file
These are the documented parsing behaviors our scanner tests every resume against — not speculation. The free scan runs these exact checks on your file.
Does Greenhouse keep my original PDF?
Yes — recruiters see your original file. But Greenhouse's keyword search runs on the extracted text, so layout quirks that break extraction still reduce how often you surface in searches.
Do fancy layouts hurt me in Greenhouse?
Less than in form-filling systems, since humans see your original design — but the text layer still needs to extract cleanly for search and screening tools.
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