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Which file format is best suited for a job seeker's resume, "word" or "pdf"? And why?

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Question added by Jaffar Sadiq Ahmed Basha , Engineer , Tech Mahindra
Date Posted: 2013/10/20
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i belive here one of the HR departemnts should answer such inquires.

waheed ahmed
by waheed ahmed , CSR , Telebridge

PDF is good because it looks professional and good to present.

word format so the company can copy information easily from it

Abd alwahab Alqaramseh
by Abd alwahab Alqaramseh , Material Section Head , CEGCO

I feel word more flexible

Mukkaram Siddique
by Mukkaram Siddique , Finance, Management & Stocks , Amazon Foods Saudi Arabia

It depends on the requirements of the recruiter, although personally I will recommend make CV in Word format and then save in PDF.

It has advantages to Recruiter and applicant both.

For Applicant: there are no formating issues while printing the CV and no fear of data error of tempering.

For Recruiters: data can be copied exactly as normal document format and its easy to manage too.

amir nasr
by amir nasr , Technical Office Assistant , Orascom Hotels & Development Co

PDF, because it's more secured than word

Shareen N Castelino
by Shareen N Castelino , sales operations specialist , Westcon Comstor

Both are good but if you do it in pdf and you want to add something its difficult

Eihab Moustafa
by Eihab Moustafa , General Ledger & Reporting Manager - , Arabian Centers Co. part of Fawaz Al Hokair Group

pdf

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by Deleted user

PDF of course 

samiha ahmed
by samiha ahmed , Data Entry administrator , Programme Management Unit

Well both of the formats are best suited for resume building, but I opt. MS-Word because every one can easily build resume in Word and get more presentable resume if using Word2010 and the plus point is any company can easily open ur reume to have a glance on it in no time whereas PDF format is not used every where.

I think "word" is better than "pdf"

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