Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:50:40 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "RW" <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEHAFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200509221339.53708.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of RW >Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:40 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? > > >On Wednesday 21 September 2005 19:00, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 14:52, Ashley Moran wrote: >> >>>> RW wrote: > >> >>> Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencies to >> >>> specify MS Word >> >>> documents only. It's a de facto standard. >> >> I have never gotten grief when I tell the recruiter that I do not >> have Word and I do not support proprietary formats and then >send a PDF. > >You are missing the point. > >If and when you *are* disadvantaged by using PDF, no-one will tell you. Since a recruiter makes money by placing candidates they aren't going to let a minor thing like the file format of the resume get in the way of finding qualified product - I mean people - to sell to their customers. And if they do, you as a candidate don't want to have anything to do with them because if they are that incompetent to deal with that simple of a thing they are going to certainly munge your placement. Since the HR people in a company almost always pretty much regard resumes as nuisance items to deal with - except for the few times in the year that they actually are under the gun to find someone - I can believe that some fat-assed old cow in a HR department might be willing to make a stink over the file format a resume is in. Ted
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