[alain94040]

Not really. But do provide a link to your LinkedIn profile, it shows confidence on your part.

As a hiring manager, I need a piece of paper in my hand that I can look at, print and carry with me to your interview. Have you tried to print a LinkedIn profile yet?

So I'm afraid you'll have to keep generating a nice-looking PDF. The content may be 99% identical to what's on your LinkedIn page, that's fine. Understand that your job is to make my life as easy as possible, so I can focus on figuring out who you are.

PS: also, please never send Word documents, I hate opening Word documents, use PDF instead

[slantyyz]

Yes, Word docs suck.

I've found in practice, that a lot of large companies (and headhunters) that use HR software seem to have trouble with PDFs. In this day and age, it's mind boggling that their software would have trouble full-text indexing a PDF. Maybe they're just too cheap to pay for software upgrades.

PDFs are almost never an issue if you're emailing it directly to the hiring manager, but a PDF could be bad if you're emailing a catch-all mailbox like jobs@ or hr@.

[damncabbage]

I've previously applied for a job via a recruiter, sent them a PDF, and found out in the interview room that the recruiter had taken a screenshot of my PDF, stuck their logo in their corner, saved it as a .jpg, and sent it on to the company in my stead.

Fortunately, the interviewer saw the humour and we had a good chuckle about it.

[tzs]

> PS: also, please never send Word documents, I hate opening Word documents, use PDF instead.

Such generalizations are poor advice. Send what the employer asks for. Some will ask for Word, and are likely to be as annoyed by a PDF as you are to be annoyed by Word.