On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:53:06 -0000 (GMT)
"Vic" <lug@???> wrote:
>
> > Other companies take PDFs and strip all formatting, as I discovered
> > to my detriment....
>
> Think yourself lucky. I had an agent strip an entire page from my CV
> once, and had the interviewer repeatedly complain that I'd done
> nothing for 3 years after University.
I don't like using Word (mainly) for that reason. I quite understand
wanting to tailor a CV for a given job, but I would prefer if the agent
would contact me, and have me do the tailoring - having the agents do
it seems to open up considerable scope for abuse.....
... for example, I attended an interview a few years ago where the
interviewer asked me to outline my C++ and ObjectiveC experience, which
it seemed had been mysteriously added to the C experience I originally
listed, somewhere between leaving me and arriving at the interviewer's
hands.
After we'd cleared up the confusion (and established I was not a
suitable candidate!), he told me this was not the first time that
particular agency had done something like that but, despite complaints,
his company's HR dept insisted on going on accepting CVs from them. In
retrospect, I figured I'd had a lucky escape!
Ho-hum.....
Chris
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