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This might be a regional thing, but in 15+ years I've never once worked with a recruiter (3rd-party or in-house) who didn't ask for my resume in Word format. Y
by StevePerkins 11y ago
This might be a regional thing, but in 15+ years I've never once worked with a recruiter (3rd-party or in-house) who didn't ask for my resume in Word format.
Yes, the 3rd-party headhunters tend to strip off my contact info and insert their own. I don't really blame them, given the number of companies who try to cut out the middleman and hire the candidate directly (I'd had companies try to do this with me on multiple occasions).
At any rate, it's trivially easy to export a Word file to PDF if you wish. I've seen some other JSON Resume processors that maintain separate templates for multiple file types (e.g. Word, PDF, HMTL). To me it just made more sense to have one version of each template, since you can easily export from that output to all the others. This reduces the burden of authoring new templates.
- devonkim 11y agoIt's not even that PDFs make it harder for editing, it's that most recruiters will copy-paste from your resume into a standardized template for that company, and the recruiters are oftentimes so bad at technology or so overloaded with hundreds of candidates that they'd rather go with a Word doc to save 2 minutes to open up something else that might get wonky when you copy and paste it again (bullet points are a good example of differences from PDF to Word in how they're copied).
- mixmastamyk 11y agoI've not encountered this often, but when I have (rarely), I've just sent it in pdf, with a "Sorry, I don't own MS Word." Never been a problem, and why should it? There are free readers on every platform, which almost everyone needs to have installed to read documentation, if not by default.