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It's not impossible, just very very improbable.
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I got burned by that once. CV was reformatted into incomprehensibility.
After that I always bring at least one copy of my CV with me to the interview just in case.
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I always do, just in case!
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- Work only with agencies that have a local presence. I want a person I can speak with face-to-face. It makes me far harder to ignore.
- Check references on the agency from friends and acquaintances. There are online review sites ... although I'm cautious about trusting opinions on what is an unregulated forum.
- Interview the agency so they can explain why you should let them should represent you. If they act like they are doing you a favor ... they're not.
- READ YOUR CONTRACT WITH THE AGENCY! It's scary how many people I know glance at their contract and sign it. Unless you understand all the legalese, it may be worth having the contract reviewed by a lawyer. If the contract doesn't define payment time frames (agency to you) request the update.
- Do not allow blind submissions, e.g., if I don't know who the client is, my resume will not be submitted. I sometimes work in state government, and a double submission can get you blackballed. At the very least it will disqualify you.
- Require review of all altered resumes. If the agency refuses, find a new agency.
- Bring your resume to the interview. If the one submitted is not what was approved, let the client know. It may not help then, but you know you can't trust the agency and neither can the client. I've had interviewers ask me for a resume and compare to the one submitted, so smart interviewers don't trust the agencies either.
- Don't be a jerk. This is business. Keep things friendly but impersonal; when you refuse, do it politely. Don't burn any bridges unnecessarily, even if the other guy is being a jerk.
My last point is critical. Remain professional, regardless of situation or outcome. A mentor told me, "He who gets mad first, loses." I don't fully agree with that, but I know that when I get mad, *I* lose.
A huge caveat: I'm in the middle-Atlantic USA in a good job market. Refusing one agency won't hurt me, but folks in tighter markets may not have that ability. I have been in a position where I had to take what job I could get, and am thankful to be in a good position now.
I'm ramping up to sign my 4th contract with my current agency. There is a strong trust relationship in both directions and I know from experience what to expect and that the owner's ethics are good ones -- he does his best for the consultants AND the clients. I'll continue to work with this agency unless things don't line up and they cannot place me.
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"Mickey" (that was his real name) stapled the first page of my CV onto the rest of someone else's.
I thought the interviewer was on drugs while he was referring to my CV during the interview ... The interview never got anywhere after that; even after seeing what the problem was ... Like it was "my" fault.
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I had a similar thing apart from the agent had added some stuff to my CV, including a deep love for rock climbing & camping (I dont sleep in tents did it once for Glastonbury never again!) also 2 years in the RAF...
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Never use agencies. Ever!
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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You're right, Server Errors are no laughing matter! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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What did you see? I get a jpg...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I get an Sever Error of some kind 404 ish...
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Strange - the link has http:// already...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The link doesn't work for me either...
...on the other hand, I'm still using IE 
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Hmm, I wonder what caused the big mark in the cement?
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My employer's overzealous filters have problems with both links and because I made the mistake of having logged into CP on my phone in the past I can't use it to endrun the blocks without this sites boneheaded software marking everything read for me. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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...that you are a programmer[^]...
Kinda funny! 
Can someone please explain it to the VB programmers...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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shouldn't that be a bored programmer ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Dunno, but it was a bored Lounger that posted it, that's for sure...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It kind of reminds me about this famous quote,
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world; those who know binary and those who don’t.
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I have that on a T-shirt... Heh...
And another one with, "There are only two kinds of people in this world; Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data"
That one gets a better reaction from the non-geeks. Either they laugh, or I laugh because they don't understand it 
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Ian Shlasko wrote: they laugh
the first kind
Ian Shlasko wrote: I laugh
the second
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The control to increase precipitation, it's obvious.
(2, 7)
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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