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		WGT on Dec 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippet... > they want this because then they can strip out all your personal data This is correct. Agency employees are taught to remove contact info, apply their own header, and trim the length (5 page maximum) before sending to clients.

Tempest1981 on Dec 8, 2016 [–]

I've seen recruiters pass along résumés in plain text format. Now it makes sense -- copy/paste from PDF.

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