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Almost everyone except for shitty recruiters take it in PDF. And that's because the recruiters want to fix things and add their own letter-head to it. Don't do
by bennyg 12y ago
Almost everyone except for shitty recruiters take it in PDF. And that's because the recruiters want to fix things and add their own letter-head to it. Don't do that.
- Numberwang 12y agoIn Europe 90% of all companies and recruiters will demand a .doc file. You either accept this and do your CV in Gdoc or remain unemployed. Your choice.
- arrrg 12y agoYou sure about that? PDFs were never a problem for me, to the point of being explicitly encouraged.
- symmetricsaurus 12y agoEurope is not on homogenous region. When applying for jobs in Sweden I have not had any problems using a PDF.
- Numberwang 12y agoWell I'm Swedish and have also worked in Ireland and the UK, and have had more or less the same experience everywhere.
- sinkasapa 12y agoAs a general rule of thumb can we all just agree that 90% of all human organizations -- at the very least -- are mediocre? A good resume should be part of escaping these types of places and living a more successful happy life! :-)
- vonmoltke 12y agoQualcomm takes .doc, .docx, and .txt only. ARM and National Instruments are the same, though they also take .rtf. It depends on what software the company uses; ARM and NI use the same software, so I presume any other company that uses it has the same restrictions.
- thyrsus 12y agoWhen I interviewed at my current employer, I had sent them a PDF of my TeX resume, but the monstrosity they were carrying around looked as if they'd OCR'd the PDF and copy/pasted that into Word. The only line breaks that survived were between the major headings. Lesson: always bring lots of copies of your resume to the interview: I thought ten was sufficient, and I was almost wrong. Also: the tech skill of HR has nothing to do with the tech skill of engineers in a medium-to-large business.