[LRUG] Expat thinking of coming home

[Chris Mear]

On 17 Sep 2012, at 10:06, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:47 AM, David Roberts
> <droberts at excelitresource.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have a number of roles available that I can discuss with you. I have been focussing to Ruby for some time now. Please can you send me your CV in Word and I will call to go over these in more detail.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why is it important that the CV is presented
> using one particular software package?  Anything wrong with plain old
> text?

From my conversations with recruiters, the reason Word format is asked for is because it's editable (as opposed to something less easily editable, such as PDF). This is so they can remove your contact details and add their own header, thus making sure any communication goes through them.

So I'm sure plain text would be fine.

Chris