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by Beltalowda 1591 days ago
In my experience a lot of time what they want is to redact personal information so they can send your CV to employers without the employers trying to "e-stalk" you and hire you outside of the recruiter (and thus not pay the recruiting fee). I actually got hired like this once (although I didn't know it at the time; the owner mentioned a year after I worked there).

I write my CV in HTML, as that's just the easiest way to get my CV to look exactly how I want it, and then "print" it to a PDF in Firefox. I also have a little JavaScript to redact personal information if I add "#redact" to the URL, and send a PDF of that too to recruiters after I noticed that a recruiter had completely massacred my pixel-perfect CV that I obsessed over by copy/pasting it in some ugly crooked layout and sent that horrible thing to companies :-/

All of that said, I haven't used recruiters for many years, but back then my "redacted" PDF solved the issues for me.