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>At one place, long ago, we would hand the candidate the copy of the resume
we had received from the agency. "Here is what we received. Do you have any
comments about it?"
>At least once the answer was, "What? I didn't write that! They changed it
all!"
Which is why the only time I ever worked with a recruiter, I *insisted*
that they not reformat or change my resume. When they said that they had
to submit it in their format, I said as long as they didn't rewrite it.
During our last hiring round, I received several resumes submitted from the
recruiter that I worked with (she has extensive contacts in documentation
and training in our area), and they just copy and paste the resume into
their template so that it has their company heading on it. Other than the
heading, each of the resumes was formatted differently (I just checked my
"interviews" folder to make sure). I'm not saying all recruiters do that,
just that the one I have experience with does.
I still hold that inline formatting is evil and new (and many experienced)
technical writers need to be broken of this bad habit. But that could just
be months of cleaning up messy converted Word and RoboHelp code talking. =P
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 07:14:22 -0400, Sion Lane <sion -dot- lane -at- unit4 -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I keep a version of my resume without contact info/referee details on it
>> to give to agencies after being told by one that the reason they had
>> re-typed my whole resume was to remove the contact details.
>>
>> I had provided them with a locked-down pdf, yet saw that the interviewer
>> was referring to a completely different looking document at the interview.
>>
>
> At one place, long ago, we would hand the candidate the copy of the resume
> we had received from the agency. "Here is what we received. Do you have any
> comments about it?"
>
> At least once the answer was, "What? I didn't write that! They changed it
> all!"
>
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