They can slap their header on the Word version of your resume. This is something that irks me, my resume is mine, don't fritz with it.
This is what they do in the UK. Firstly, they want to remove your contact details, so that the company can't get in touch with you directly. So they replace your header with theirs.
That is exactly what they do here in Australia and it sh*ts me no end when I've done a nice concise two page resume, they remove my details and add their header and send it through as two pages and one line on the third page making me look like a complete MS Word noob in front of an employer.
I actually brought this up during an interview about how unprofessional it made me look and the interviewer acknowledged it and said "Even though they have removed your details, it would probably only take a small amount of time for me to look you up and find your details if you have at least some online presence or use the telephone book or electoral roll if I really wanted to"
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