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When I was in grad school, I applied to a lot of companies but didn't here back from any of them. Getting desperate a friend suggested I should try signing up f

When I was in grad school, I applied to a lot of companies but didn't here back from any of them. Getting desperate a friend suggested I should try signing up for Dice.com. From my perspective it seemed like just another LinkedIn. So I signed up. Within a week I had a plethora of recruiters contacting me from companies I had never heard of. Not being too picky back then I took a few of these calls. Most were largely Indian run companies. One of the recruiters asked for my resume. So I sent over a pdf file. The next day she calls me and asks for a .doc version of my resume. Naively, I thought may be the recruiter isn't tech savvy so unable to open a pdf file. I told her to download Acrobat reader. She said but she wants to edit my resume before showing it to the clients. I promptly ended the call and deleted my dice account.

notafrog 8y ago
Oh wow...
tropo 8y ago
There is a legit explanation for this. Sometimes recruiters just want to remove your contact info. The idea is that this makes it harder for companies to avoid paying the recruiter. You could offer to make the edits as requested.
- Jedd 8y ago
  Yup - I've had this with legit recruiters in Australia. I know they're legit as they're people I've worked with in the past. It's frustrating, as often times you've worked to make your PDF in local page size (A4 here) fit 'just so'. I've seen the resultant print-outs on the desk during interviews, and they're not pretty - so I'd also much prefer to supply modified PDF's. Weirdly, in the age of web search and linkedin, this still happens -- despite it taking all of a couple of minutes to bang in someone's name, and a couple of their previous roles, and being pretty confident of finding out how to contact that person. OTOH it's nice to see that some recruiters trust their paying customers just as much as they trust their candidates.

notafrog 8y ago

Oh wow...

tropo 8y ago

There is a legit explanation for this. Sometimes recruiters just want to remove your contact info. The idea is that this makes it harder for companies to avoid paying the recruiter. You could offer to make the edits as requested.

Jedd 8y ago
Yup - I've had this with legit recruiters in Australia. I know they're legit as they're people I've worked with in the past. It's frustrating, as often times you've worked to make your PDF in local page size (A4 here) fit 'just so'. I've seen the resultant print-outs on the desk during interviews, and they're not pretty - so I'd also much prefer to supply modified PDF's. Weirdly, in the age of web search and linkedin, this still happens -- despite it taking all of a couple of minutes to bang in someone's name, and a couple of their previous roles, and being pretty confident of finding out how to contact that person. OTOH it's nice to see that some recruiters trust their paying customers just as much as they trust their candidates.