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I've had a Word document as my resume, but these days while using LaTeX I just have a PDF.

This has had two good benefits.

1. Recruiters can no longer modify my resume easily to match their requirements. Yes, I've caught some recruiters modifying my resume they sent on to the company to include more keywords. (Which incidentally is also why I bring my resume to jobs with me) 2. I can have a more consistent formatting that is enforced. I've found that even with Microsoft Word different versions across platforms would display my resume differently.

Even if recruiters/companies require Word documents, most of them are more than willing to take a PDF instead. Most online forms that pull information out of a resume can pull information out of a PDF just as well as out of a Word document.