[Ankhers]

> Now that is why if I ever have to send my CV to someone it will only be a PDF version.

This doesn't always help either though. I have only ever sent PDFs to recruiters for this reason. Yet I have still had a recruiter completely rewrite my resume and add false information.

I generally keep a resume on me when I go to an interview just in case an interviewer had not seen it. I'm glad I do that.

[dhosek]

I've had them re-type the resume and add typos and errors. I don't need a recruiter for that. I can put typos and errors on my resume by myself just fine.

[llbeansandrice]

I was doing some interviews and the resumes we were getting were like 5+ pages long. Maybe it was some cultural difference or something but I'd always been told to keep my resume to 1 page front & back at the absolute longest.

Turns out it was a different resume that the recruiters would send us. They were garbage in quality and I hate them.

Fuck recruiters.

[apohn]

It's not cultural. I think the agencies are trying to put in every single keyword and "skill" to get past algorithmic filters and also make sure non-technical managers see the words they are looking for.

At a past role we were looking for a contract Tableau person and one of the agencies that was approved by HR sent me 20+ resumes. All of them were 5+ pages, with things like "Made a Bar Chart in Tableau," "Made a Pie Chart Tableau", etc.

After looking at 10 of these, I told our HR exec these resumes all looked the same and I thought they were fake. I had a meeting with the agency rep and they said they smiled when I said these resumes were BS. Their response was "Usually we send resumes to a manager and they have a 30 minute phone conversation with some of them. After that they sign a contract with one of them."

The point is, a lot of hiring managers want a person to do X on a contract basis, but they don't understand X or have anybody in their group that does X. For all they know, connecting to a SQL database and making a bar chart is rocket science. These agencies target these managers.

I did end up interviewing 2 people from that agency, both of which were actually quite good with Tableau. Of course, those people were curated by the agency after I made my comment.

[mysterydip]

would digitally signing and marking as no changes possible after signing work?

[jmah]

No, because when companies receive an unsigned resume (after modification), it will look like every other unsigned resume they receive

[Tempest1981]

Some companies want resumes submitted as text or .DOC, for easier keyword searching perhaps. Or to avoid viruses? So the recruiter may OCR the PDF, then "improve" on it.