On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 30 March 2002 09:43 am, Tim Prince wrote:
On Saturday 30 March 2002 03:18, wolfi wrote: When I was out of work recently, I made certain that my resume displayed correctly both on Word 97 and on WordPerfect linux. Even one of the linux shops to which I applied rejected it, on the grounds that they detected that it had been on a non-Microsoft word processor. Those must be the same
Let's send it to the list this time... :-} I wish Mozilla understood mailing lists. Rick Green wrote: people who
started Lindows.
I'm curious -- why would anyone (other than a Microsoft employee) care if a document has been on a non-MS processor as long as it prints and edits correctly?
If someone rejected my resume because it had been prepared using a non-windows word processor, I would say "Thank you for not wasting my time. You're obviously not someone I want to work with."
Unfortunately it's not that simple. It's often not the employers that insist on Word format resumes, but the intermediate agencies - specifically, I've noticed, they want it that way so they can doctor it before it reaches the employers. (Mainly to lose your contact information - they want to make the employers go through the agency of course - but I've noticed other alterations when I've been in interview.) I author my CV in LyX and produce LaTeX, plaintext, HTML, PDF and Word (via SO6); then when I send it off, I tend to send the HTML version, plus the Word version if to an agency, with a link to the page where all the versions reside. -- Rachel