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    My client would like your CV in a certain format....

    Responded to an advert, and the agency has said that the client requires my CV in a certain format.

    Wouldn't normally think about doing this generally, however, in this case it is for a specific position/client.

    Anyone else been bothered to do something like this? Seems like formatting/reformatting should be the agents job at least....

    #2
    Generally they won't accept anything other than .doc files, which they can cut and paste...
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #3
      Tables and lots of formatting seems to annoy agents as it causes them more work in their cutting and pasting efforts, god forbid.
      Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
      +5 Xeno Cool Points

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        #4
        Depends in the current market on how badly you need the role.

        In better times, I've told madison black to **** off when they told me to change the format of my cv.
        I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!

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          #5
          Thanks, but my CV is in Word format - its a more specific request of them sending me a very specific template with fields for example, project, dates, technologies used, etc.... and telling me to fill it out.

          Strikes me as them being too lazy or apathetic to do it themselves as I've never been asked to do something like this before...

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            #6
            Originally posted by ddilling View Post
            Thanks, but my CV is in Word format - its a more specific request of them sending me a very specific template with fields for example, project, dates, technologies used, etc.... and telling me to fill it out.

            Strikes me as them being too lazy or apathetic to do it themselves as I've never been asked to do something like this before...
            Precisely. Lazy effers. Ask them why they aren't doing this themselves!
            Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
            +5 Xeno Cool Points

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              #7
              Originally posted by ddilling View Post
              Responded to an advert, and the agency has said that the client requires my CV in a certain format.

              Wouldn't normally think about doing this generally, however, in this case it is for a specific position/client.

              Anyone else been bothered to do something like this? Seems like formatting/reformatting should be the agents job at least....
              It's something about an erect middle digit. Some other pester could put it in more politically correct terms.
              Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
              threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                #8
                Sounds like they want you to fill in an entry in their candidate database for them so they can sit staring out the window instead. Is the role real?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by ddilling View Post
                  Responded to an advert, and the agency has said that the client requires my CV in a certain format.

                  Wouldn't normally think about doing this generally, however, in this case it is for a specific position/client.

                  Anyone else been bothered to do something like this? Seems like formatting/reformatting should be the agents job at least....


                  That's NATO for you...
                  "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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                    #10
                    Mary Poppins wrote : Precisely. Lazy effers. Ask them why they aren't doing this themselves!
                    Because its Wayne's first job out of Uni, and he did Media Studies on a Mac. He doesn't know how to use Word or a PC.

                    Be nice to the poor lad.
                    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                    C.S. Lewis

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