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Re:Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to bu... by WGT on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @10:07AM (#13123011)
> 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.

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Re:Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to bu... by Tempest1981 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @07:15PM (#13127434)
I've seen recruiters pass along résumés in plain text format. Now it makes sense -- copy/paste from PDF.
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