> Now, I have seen a few recruiters claim that their system "can't accept"
> documents that aren't in MS Word format. Which seems reasonable enough;
> PDF contains enough information to render an image to paper, but doesn't
> contain any logical formatting formation. (E.g., you can't easily
> determine what's part of the document body and what's a page number. But
> in a Word document, this is trivial.) A Word document contains
> information about the logical structure of the information, which gives
> software a hope in hell of pulling something useful out of the text.
> Even so, I have to wonder what they're using this software to
> automate... It's, like, 2 pages of text! How hard can it be to process
> that by hand?

Maybe they're putting it into a neutral/common format before sending it 
to the company? I've seen that a few times. Another option is that their 
software picks out keywords from your CV to store in their database, so 
in the future they can match it up with jobs automatically.

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