Never Send Your CV via Gmail

Interesting point. Later in the article, Google Hire is mentioned. The article was written in February (Medium redacts the year) and in Sept Google Hire was sunsetted.

Having been on both side of the hiring fence, many HR departments primarily pass around PDFs when evaluating candidates. If you instead, as suggested, include a link, I think you're even more likely to shoot yourself in the foot because when you're evaluating dozens or hundreds of candidates, anyone who makes you take an extra step is very easily lost in the shuffle, even inadvertently.

The spam filtering tools can indeed be frustrating and even dangerous; the answer is to find a way to cordially confirm receipt and make that a practice. I switched away from Gmail to another dedicated email provider and found even more of emails were getting sent to spam, with no real recourse for diagnosing.

It doesn't matter what mail client you use, the issue was at their end

Is it really that easy? I see no mention of _how_ the author sent their materials, but a directly-generated PDF is just as easy to search as a word doc, isn't it? Does gmail explicitly only inspect the latter?

Write it in docs, use a template. Attach a pdf to the email.

That being said, if phone numbers are spam, I’ve been typing my phone into email signatures for like ever when I need to.