On 12/09/2012 11:51 AM, scott wrote:
> Maybe they're putting it into a neutral/common format before sending it
> to the company? I've seen that a few times.

Which is amusing, because PDF is a "neutral/common format", while MS 
Word is a closed, proprietary format. You would /think/ it should be the 
other way around...

> 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.

Perhaps. Although it's pretty trivial to find keywords in a PDF file 
too. [Which doesn't mean that their software /implements/ such a 
capability...]

My best guess is that most computer lusers are so stupid that MS Word is 
the only document format that they know exists, so recruiters just cater 
to that.

(How many times have you had people email you a photograph as a Word 
document?)

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