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I’ve been using latex for my CV for years. If they ask for an editable version I just send them the .tex file.

I’ve never come across any edited versions at interview.

Years ago, I recall someone musing about sending dvi files to an administrator, when asked for Word/Wordperfect files.

The same here! I tell them that I don't own MS Word and that I don't know how to use it. If that's deal-breaker then I don't want to work with this recruiter.

But I must add that I am only looking for C Linux coder contracts.

Mine is graphical, made in Fireworks (exported as PDF). I've also never had this problem.

I am really surprised so many people actually use recruiters :O Why not just look for a job yourself? They are so annoying to me, I can barely imagine anyone actually taking them serious...

Only sending PDFs sounds like a an easy way to weed this category out.

As mentioned in another post on this thread, a lot of recruiters will happily copy/paste from your PDF to their template.

Level 2 would be a jpeg, I guess.