On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:15, Donald Knecht wrote:
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
Why not just request resumes in RTF format ? If someone doesn't know what RTF is, I'd question their usefulness to any organization - it's been around LOOOOONG before *.doc. Although get them in DOC format and pipe them through strings - it's amazing what you can find. Jon