On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 17:57, Rick Green wrote:
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 30 March 2002 09:43 am, Tim Prince 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 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." Actually, I feel strongly enough about standards compiance on the internet, that I wouldn't even submit my resume to a company that requests it in any proprietary format.
Rick Green
This reminds on something else ... Our data security guys at work (*) say, that we should only send out (externally) pdf files, and no .doc, .xls or whatever. For several reasons: One of them is, you can see previous 'versions' since there is an undo history, so maybe (in your case if you send an application), they can find out to whom you already sent this earlier. The next one is, that there are dozens of versions of excel, win-word and so on- you never can assure compatibility even with your business partners [one of them (American) even told me, that they don't have so many M$ licenses, I (me, myself) gave them a StarOffice CD then...]. I don't know if this is relevant for anyone of you, but if the situation is as described, I would recommend pdf (mostly to be done by 'print to pdf' in Linux, or 'print to ps file' and doing ps2pdf afterwards) Cheers ... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com (*) work = Siemens, in my case, as some of you already know:-) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com