The Electronic Job Search: Implications for Employers and Applicants
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/1995/PDFs/PG168.PDF

Baker, William H., Kristen Bell DeTienne and Karl L. Smart
STC Proceedings
1995

Abstract:

Two different technologies seem to be colliding head-on as job seekers and employers attempt to improve their effectiveness in matching candidate with position. Job seekers dress up their resumes with different typefaces, type sizes, and other typographical treatments; and employers utilize scanning devices to enter resumes into huge corporate resume-management databases. But are today's scanners capable of reading all the font variations? And do the databases really achieve the results the employers are seeking?