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UK here. Recruited lots of people for my company. The technical details are irrelevant. Recruitment agency sends you CV. That CV has all names, address, phone
by JMS2021 5y ago
UK here. Recruited lots of people for my company.
The technical details are irrelevant.
Recruitment agency sends you CV. That CV has all names, address, phone numbers and email addresses removed. This is to stop the recruiter from bypassing the expensive agency and contacting the applicant directly to save agency fees
Next, no age or DOB is displayed. That's against the equality act here.
Next, the recruitment agency pastes their logos at the top of your CV for advertising purposes
End result is that your CV looks nothing like it did when you sent it. The formatting is broken, it prints over 6+ pages. That's why they don't take PDFs, as they can't edit it.
- chiph 5y agoThe few times I have had this happen to me, I have apologized to the interviewer for it. I knew it made their job harder to figure out what the recruiting firm had done to a relative standard resume layout. I would then hand them a paper copy from my bag that was actually readable. Doing so probably made the recruiting company mad, but if there was such a lack of trust between them about "stealing" candidates, I don't know what I could do to fix that.