Run the copy-paste test. Select all the text in your resume file, paste it into a plain text editor, and read what appears. That stripped version approximates what a parser extracts: if sections arrive in order with nothing missing, your resume travels well.
Look for three specific failures in the pasted text. Content that never appears usually lived in an image or text box. Lines that arrive shuffled usually came from columns or tables. Job titles and dates that separate from their employers signal a layout the parser had to guess about.
Fix whatever the paste reveals, then reread the plain version on its own. That unstyled text is close to what a recruiter search indexes and what their screen may show, so if it reads in order and sounds like you, the machine step is handled.
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