Versatile software engineer with a background in .NET consulting and CMS development. Working on regaining my embedded development skills to get more involved with IoT opportunities.
They erase your name and all identifying information, so you become "Thompson Technology Candidate 3" or something like that. They replace company names with "mid-sized consulting firm" or "civil engineering firm" or the like; hopefully they get it right and make it sound attractive. Really seedy recruiters will change job titles and skills.
Before I give them a Word copy, I make them agree that they will send all proposed modifications to me and that I have veto power. I have no way of enforcing that, unfortunately, so I have thought about digital watermarks so I would have more of an idea of what is happening to my resume. I have to think that one through more.
Generally, the firms that ask for this are low-quality firms and it is an indicator to me that I should politely decline and walk away. If they're paranoid that you're going to steal their cut, they don't trust you. In these sorts of situations, my reasoning is that people who can't trust others often are not trustworthy themselves.
I am a product engineer and have helped build software from small startups, to manipulating hundreds of millions of data points. I write API's and make tools that make developers lives easier.
They erase your name and all identifying information, so you become "Thompson Technology Candidate 3" or something like that. They replace company names with "mid-sized consulting firm" or "civil engineering firm" or the like; hopefully they get it right and make it sound attractive. Really seedy recruiters will change job titles and skills.
Before I give them a Word copy, I make them agree that they will send all proposed modifications to me and that I have veto power. I have no way of enforcing that, unfortunately, so I have thought about digital watermarks so I would have more of an idea of what is happening to my resume. I have to think that one through more.
Generally, the firms that ask for this are low-quality firms and it is an indicator to me that I should politely decline and walk away. If they're paranoid that you're going to steal their cut, they don't trust you. In these sorts of situations, my reasoning is that people who can't trust others often are not trustworthy themselves.
That's interesting, I had not thought of that before. I will have to ask that next time one wants a Word version of my resume.