Le 12/09/2012 12:21, Orchid Win7 v1 a écrit :
> I normally send my CV to people in PDF format. But yesterday I got an
> email saying
> 
>   "Hi, I'm having trouble reading your CV. Could you send it to me again
> in Word format?"
> 
> I have to wonder at the person who doesn't have the free, cross-platform
> Acrobat Reader software [or Ghost View, or one of the bazillion other
> open-source PDF viewer programs], but /does/ have the extremely
> expensive Microsoft Word software which only runs on the extremely
> expensive Microsoft Windows platform.
> 
> (Technically, they could be using Open Office, Libre Office or one of
> several other packages which understand MS Word documents - but then
> wouldn't they ask for ODF format or something?)
> 
> 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?


The reality is harder: they will take your CV, edit it to add the
required functionality needed by their customer and submit it.
If it raises interest, they will set up a meeting for your recruitment.
The most honest (...) will at least told you 3 minutes before the
meeting with the customer to acknolegde even if you do not understand
("do not say no to the customer, we will deal with it later if it
works"): so yes, you did not know, but you have an first hand experience
of lunar gravity.

That's why they want/need it in Word format.
If you go that way (your choice), I recommend bringing a printed CV at
any meeting.

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