I highly mislike word docs for resumes. It provides an implicit assumption that I use MS Word; which is false. I also don't much like the way they look when the

I highly mislike word docs for resumes. It provides an implicit assumption that I use MS Word; which is false. I also don't much like the way they look when they're printed. PDF is at least a fairly open standard and allows proper formatting with all (reasonable) viewers. If you do use a PDF/doc, make sure you spend a little bit of time working on the formatting of the thing. Or just download a LaTeX template.. Plaintext works fine for reading on a screen, but anything done on paper needs some semblance of typography to it. Generally speaking I keep a copy of my resume in .tex and .txt format, with appropriate tweaks to each to make it look nice.