Re: PDF resumes for tech writing gigs (was: T-letter, a good, good, thing.)

["Andrea Brundt" <andrea_w_brundt -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Gene wrote:
>
> It's common practice for recruiters to delete your direct contact
information
> from your resume and replace it with their own, so that their client
companies
> can't take the resume they receive from the recruiter, contact the
candidate
> directly and tell the recruiter, "Oh, him/her.  We already have that
resume on
> file.  Sorry, no commission for you."

Thanks Gene! That makes sense, I suppose. I wish one of the recruiters had
explained it to me instead of claiming there was a technological barrier. I
apologize to all headhunters, for assuming they were lying when they were in
fact tweaking the process, and hereby holster the broad brush with which I
painted. :)

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