Ask HN: Can I be required to change my resume format to comply with audit?

1 points by orryx 6y ago ↗ HN

I feel like I'm going crazy here, but I don't have much professional experience so maybe this is commonplace.

I'm working as a jr developer at a startup in the healthcare space. Anyway, we were just audited by a big pharma company (I'm still not sure what this process entails, but it's required before we can do business with them). They flagged many of the employee resumes on file as "non-compliant", and we were all given a new resume template to copy our information into.

This seems crazy to me. Why should a client be able to dictate how I format my resume? Is this typical?

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blacksqr 6y ago ↗

Remember the Golden Rule:

"The one with the gold makes the rules."

orryx 6y ago ↗

True, perhaps I'm overreacting. I'm just wondering what else a client can make me reformat for their "uniformity standards". My personal website? My haircut?

rdtwo 6y ago ↗

All the above if you want their money

true_religion 6y ago ↗

If don’t see the big deal. They are just making you do light paperwork, to document your professional history.

It’s business relevant and you can do it during working hours.

orryx 6y ago ↗

Yeah, I overreacted a bit. But I still think it's a bit absurd.

I'd understand more if it was just "we need the most up-to-date copy of your resume".

bradknowles 6y ago ↗

I’ve personally never heard of that kind of thing. Frankly, it somewhat boggles my mind.

However, if your company wants them as a customer, then the company has to decide how far they are willing to go in order to make that prospective customer happy.

And you have to decide how far you are willing to go to keep your company happy.