My client would like your CV in a certain format....

[blacjac]

Precisely. Lazy effers. Ask them why they aren't doing this themselves!

Would you really trust an agent to fill out a form with the information on your CV?

My first name would end up as "22/12/1952"

[pmeswani]

Thanks, but my CV is in Word format - its a more specific request of them sending me a very specific template with fields for example, project, dates, technologies used, etc.... and telling me to fill it out.

Strikes me as them being too lazy or apathetic to do it themselves as I've never been asked to do something like this before...

Tell them that you are too lazy to do it and if they can't be bothered, that you will go to another agency and apply for the role through them.

[Menelaus]

Ffs

I do wonder, occasionally, WTF it is that agencies do for their money.

In my industry-work when I was getting my professionals, I did a placement at a recruitment company where they copied the CV submitted into their standard format before sending it off.

That'd seem to be the last they could do but nowadays if I go to an interview the only things that they seem to have done are chopped off my name and address bits.

[ChimpMaster]

Does this "specific format" have a section for "references"?

[darmstadt]

There is one agency who is always asking for updates but they want it in something called XML format. I was thinking of doing it in Waterloo Script instead

[Sysman]

That'd seem to be the last they could do but nowadays if I go to an interview the only things that they seem to have done are chopped off my name and address bits.

I saw that once. They'd used a guillotine on my version and photocopied the result.

[Menelaus]

I saw that once. They'd used a guillotine on my version and photocopied the result.

Yep. Fothermuckers.

[ddilling]

I called the agent and asked...wtf?

Apparently the job is through ANOTHER agency, and it is them who is asking for it. So its a little more understandable how the agency I contacted is less than keen to do the paperwork for other ageny, they are just passing the buck so to speak.

Now to see if I can get my wife to do it....

[expat]

I do wonder, occasionally, WTF it is that agencies do for their money.

In my industry-work when I was getting my professionals, I did a placement at a recruitment company where they copied the CV submitted into their standard format before sending it off.

That'd seem to be the last they could do but nowadays if I go to an interview the only things that they seem to have done are chopped off my name and address bits.

Of course they do that. You are working for them, not the other way round. So they are not presenting your CV, they are presenting their CV for one of their bods.

[oracleslave]

Of course they do that. You are working for them, not the other way round. So they are not presenting your CV, they are presenting their CV for one of their bods.

runners

I believe this is the term for a live contractor from an agents perspective.