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These people just want to remove your contact data so they can make money off your back.

Real recruiters find candidates and setup a meeting between you and the company. They also don't care about eventually sending your contact details as their services are actually worth giving them money.

Stupid recruiters that post on LinkedIn arguing about your resume like in the OP just edit your details out and send companies a handful of resumes. They make money from simply being a glorified proxy.

"Chief Candidate Whisperer", like what the actual fuck.

If you can't open 90% of pdfs sent from different sources then you're the problem

9/10 applicants who submit their resume as a PDF for our openings, we can't view.

Can't, or won't?

I'm going to take a stab and say she's a recruiter for a third party staffing company.

They REQUIRE word docs so that they can copy and paste or edit your resume on their template.

Pro tip: take the requirements that they send you and Google search for it. Apply directly with the company and cut them out.

“Portable Document Format”. If they can’t open it, fuck them, you don’t want to work for that tire fire.

This is SovCit level.

I actually was going along with this for 2 split seconds.

"Wait. WAIT! Is she serious?!"

If your organization is such a clusterfuck that you can't figure out how to open a PDF, then I'm going to consider that a bullet dodged.

looks like that company seriously suffers a huge lack of experts, maybe if you didnt get an answer, just resend your application as a word document with your salary expectation just "tripled" for ... compensation purposes. whatever company still "depends" on microsoft still has heaps extra money it can easily divert to you without any real loss, so don't waste that chance!

Well duh...PDF stands for "portable document file", not "readable document file".
You can send it, but no one can read it.

You should use readable text files (RTF) instead.