See Resume from an ATS's perspective

I was checking how my resume would look like when parsed by ATS. For parsing, I used the pdftotext command in linux.

There were some errors with parsing icons. I was using font awesome icons in LaTex as shown below.

\faIcon{laptop}\href{https://www.chaitanyavaru.com}{www.chaitanyavaru.com}

\faIcon{linkedin}\href{https://linkedin.com}{linkedin.com/in/chaitanya-varu}

When pdf file was parsed, icons were coming up as gibberish.

 www.chaitanyavaru.com
ï linkedin.com/in/chaitanya-varu

To resovle this, I used accsupp package to add accessiblity text for the icons.

\BeginAccSupp{ActualText={Website: }}\faIcon{laptop}\EndAccSupp{} \href{https://www.chaitanyavaru.com}{www.chaitanyavaru.com}

\BeginAccSupp{ActualText={LinkedIn: }}\faIcon{linkedin}\EndAccSupp{} \href{https://linkedin.com}{linkedin.com/in/chaitanya-varu}

With that, icons were parsed correctly without any gibberish.

Website: www.chaitanyavaru.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chaitanya-varu