<p>I just applied for an internship position online and had to upload my resume. When I uploaded my resume, the site automatically puts everything in a text box with HTML. After I finished the application, I received a confirmation email with all the information I included. When I look at my resume in the confirmation email, the formatting of it is really screwed up. Do you think hiring managers will mind? The website specifically said to upload or copy/past our resume in plain text format (notepad/word processing).</p>
<p>Yes, they will mind. Take it as a learning experience. You should have a resume in word format and one in .txt format. It should be easy to read with everything that is on your word resume.</p>
<p>It still doesn't work. I saved the word format in .txt and uploaded it again. After I press "next" on the page, my resume appears in a text box with all these HTML codes embedded in it. When I receive the email confirmation with my resume information, the formatting is really crappy. Nothing is lined up and it's doubled spaced and everything. This is why I hate applying online...</p>
<p>No, you need to copy everything from your word document, paste it into Notepad and format it into a nice, clean-looking .txt file in Notepad. Call it resume and keep it where you keep your word resume. You should do that for your cover letter too.</p>
<p>^That's what I thought you meant in your earlier reply, and that's what I did.</p>
<p>Hmmm....I don't know why you still have HTML code imbedded in there. What version are you using? I know it does not do that with Word 03. Maybe only 2007?</p>
<p>My original resume is in Word 2007. I copied and pasted my resume into Notepad piece by piece and formatted it in Word Pad until it looked like a resume. Then I uploaded the wordpad file on their site. When I go to the next page of the application, my resume appears in their textbox with all these stupid HTML's along with my resume. Then I press submit. When I receive their email with the information I provided in the application, my resume format is screwed up. I even tried copy/pasting the resume text into their textbox without any HTML's, but it's worse. I guess there's nothing I can do.</p>
<p>Wordpad is a no-no too. Companies mainly process .doc, .txt, .pdf, .rtf, files. Only thing I can say is just re-write your resume/cover letter in Notepad and save it in a nice format.</p>
<p>Paste it into notepad, but DON'T do any formatting in wordpad.</p>
<p>What is wordpad? I meant to say notepad in my above post.</p>
<p>Another program on a Windows computer that sucks and is a little more advanced than Notepad.</p>