The Recruitment Rule I’d Break: The Consultant Should Format Every CV Before it Goes to the Client
06-10-2026 11:41 via ukrecruiter.co.uk

The Recruitment Rule I’d Break: The Consultant Should Format Every CV Before it Goes to the Client

This post by Alexander Rocket, Co-Founder of FormaCV, is part of our blog series, “The Recruitment Rule I’d Break”.
Many agencies have some version of this rule, even if nobody wrote it down. The consultant who owns the candidate rebuilds the CV in the house template before it goes to the client. They know the candidate, so they catch the gaps. They care about the relationship, so it goes out looking right.
The rule made sense when a shortlist was three CVs a week and templates
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