On 12/09/2012 02:18 PM, 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...
>
> I meant format as in the layout/font etc, not the file format. In order
> to change that it's easier to start with Word rather than a PDF.

OK, well I guess that makes sense. As I say, PDF doesn't contain the 
logical information necessary to make that particularly easy to do.

> The
> same way some companies want you to fill in all your details on a
> website rather than post a CV, it just makes it easier for them to
> process all the applications when all the answers are the same boxes.

Yeah - but I doubt you could easily get that out of any document format 
in a suitably "automatic" way...

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