Creating a read only version of your CV

[minestrone]

You'll just get a call "can you send me a copy of your CV in Word?". If you don't, you won't get any further.

At that point I would say client name and job description.

[Dow Jones]

Cv

You've got a point there. Like you, I never allow my CV to be viewed in a public domain eg iprofile, as, if it is any good, it will be copied and cloned to death. You can also put 'confidential' and number the pages, although no guarantee that the header or footer will not be deleted.

[BrianSnail]

I tried the PDF version for a while…it always ended up with agents saying…“send it in word” / “I can’t open it” / “what is a PDF?”.

Now I just take a printed version (including contact details) along with me to client meetings…just for their reference you understand….

[expat]

I tried the PDF version for a while…it always ended up with agents saying…“send it in word” / “I can’t open it” / “what is a PDF?”.

Now I just take a printed version (including contact details) along with me to client meetings…just for their reference you understand….

Oh, yes. And be sure to give it to them, don't just tell them that you have it.

[minestrone]

I think i'm most p1ssed off now becasue I finished up a good few years working for investment banks at the start of the year and sent out my CV to about 4 agencies in reply to 'jobs'. This was the first time I had put my IB experience on my CV and sent it out.

I have had about 40 agencies contact regarding Investment Bank work so my CV has grown 10 times which I am not really happy about.

I think slyly passing CVs about without your permission is a worse sin that fishing, at least you have some control over that.

Anyway I was just thinking out loud but i'm still thinking about trying it.

[BrianSnail]

Oh, yes. And be sure to give it to them, don't just tell them that you have it.

Ahhh, that's where i'm going wrong....

[expat]

Ahhh, that's where i'm going wrong....

be sure to give it to them, don't just tell them that you have it.

Yeah, that applies generally

[SueEllen]

I think slyly passing CVs about without your permission is a worse sin that fishing, at least you have some control over that.

What the actual agents do is when they move agencies is take your CV with them.