[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.