From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 10:50:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E4316A41F for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:50:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62D0443D48 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:50:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id j8NAr2b10960; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "RW" , Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:50:40 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <200509221339.53708.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:50:44 -0000 >-----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