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format you submit your resume?

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I was in another thread and someone mentioned their industry only accepts .doc formatted resumes (and I would presume paper ones.. heh).

I find that incredible. Why not PDF? It's a standard, and even before, it can't get accidentally edited.

Does anyone's place of employment have these kind of "only one format" policies? If so, what industry is it (or specific company if you feel so inclined)?

 
Originally posted by: Rudee
My girlfriend used to be a recruiter and she tells me they hate receiving pdf's. Word doc it is.
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SRS? I found pdf so much easier to open (im not in HR btw..) and look more professional
 
Originally posted by: Rudee
My girlfriend used to be a recruiter and she tells me they hate receiving pdf's. Word doc it is.
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other than it possibly being slow, was there a reason?

The only think I can think of now is they need to index everything, which would be a legitimate reason actually.
 
Some of my professors have an amazing ability to turn a 100KB word document into a 2-5 MB pdf. Maybe that is why they don't like pdfs. The best was a 14MB 3 page long document. I pdfed the original .doc myself and got a ~150kb pdf.
 
NEVER PDF.

Resumes often get dumped into applicant tracking systems that, for better or for worse, use plain text fields as the resume location. If you have a PDF resume (especially if it's an image PDF), they can't get your information in the field. This will prevent you from showing up in keyword searches, drastically reducing your chance of getting a call back.

I use RTF, personally. You want to avoid formatting, like Word tables, that will make your resume look extra-junky when dumped into plain text.

< used to be a recruiter
 
Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Originally posted by: Rudee
My girlfriend used to be a recruiter and she tells me they hate receiving pdf's. Word doc it is.
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SRS? I found pdf so much easier to open (im not in HR btw..) and look more professional
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Holy fuck, troll is not a troll?!?

Wow.
 
I have been looking for jobs lately and noticed that most the companies do ask for .DOC only. I thought it was a bit strange too, as I would have assumed that PDF was the way to go... but I guess not.

Good luck on your job search!! :beer:
 
I use latex for my resumes, so it's natural to submit it as a pdf. Using latex I'm able to achieve better formatting more easily than if I had used word.
 
Originally posted by: AreaCode707
NEVER PDF.

Resumes often get dumped into applicant tracking systems that, for better or for worse, use plain text fields as the resume location. If you have a PDF resume (especially if it's an image PDF), they can't get your information in the field. This will prevent you from showing up in keyword searches, drastically reducing your chance of getting a call back.

I use RTF, personally. You want to avoid formatting, like Word tables, that will make your resume look extra-junky when dumped into plain text.

< used to be a recruiter
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Winnar!
 
pdf@koolwire.com turned my 41KB .doc resume into a 16KB .pdf with text selection enabled (got the summer job too, w00t). I'll keep that in mind about the .doc thing in mind in the future, though. simple text with no fancy formatting.

/laugh about LaTeX. learned how to use that for a class. I'll use it to write an obscenely long paper, but not anything else.
 
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