On Tuesday 02 October 2001 23:31, Scott Courtney wrote:
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 09:36 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I have recently hit an extremely frustrating realization regarding Microsoft's continuing monopoly of the desktop computing environment. In order for me to distribute my resume on line, I am, for all intents and purposes required to poses a Microsoft OS. This is due to the fact that I must ensure that my code runs and renders properly under IE, or MS Word.
from the employer's perspective, i recently posted a job opening on monster.com and seriously considered asking for resumes in plain text only.....................i have a sparc on my desktop running SuSE 7.0 and i had to download all of the replies to the ad on a W$ box that was in another office because of the chance i might not be able to view a resume. i don't know if the standard can change or not, but i'd rather .html or .pdf be the accepted universal document format, than MS .doc files........ just my .02 don