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Recruitment companies use automated CV parsing software to extract structured data (contact details, employment/education histories, coded skills based on keywo
by semanticist 17y ago
Recruitment companies use automated CV parsing software to extract structured data (contact details, employment/education histories, coded skills based on keywords in your CV, etc, etc) from all kinds of CV formats, including PDF.
From that structured data, they can recreate your CV content in their house style, even if it was originally a PDF.
(My employer is a market leader in this area, although 90%+ CVs I see are Doc files, and we mostly use an automated Word process for stripping contact details from those and adding recruiter's logos.)
Only the smallest recruiters are doing any of this stuff by hand using Word/Acrobat. It's all automated, like a sausage factory.
Anyway, if you make it hard for them to process your CV how they like it, they'll just chuck it. In that case, why bother sending it to recruiters at all? If you need their help, you need to play by their rules.