Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. Does it matter if you save your resume as a PDF or as a .docx?

Stop trying to "beat the bot" and start designing your resume for the specific criteria outlined by both the systems and the hiring humans.

To rank the best resume builders for 2026, we moved beyond "pretty templates." We evaluated builders based on a singular requirement: the hybrid reader test. This measures a tool's ability to provide ...