From owner-freebsd-jobs Wed Jan 24 8:57:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clickarray.com (unknown [216.132.92.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F4C237B69B for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:57:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.clickarray.com (Postfix, from userid 2000) id DE16F5EF01; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:58:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:58:01 -0800 From: Steve Shah To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: Shekhar Dora , jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resume for Your Perusal Message-ID: <20010124085801.C47678@clickarray.com> References: <20010124092443.B89272@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010124092443.B89272@peorth.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:24:43AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:24:43AM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > I have always wondered why anyone would send a M$ .doc format Because (sadly) most HR types will end up asking for it in .doc anyway. My solution has been to send a straight text version and a HTML version. I tell HR types to just load the HTML version into Word which does load and present it the way I meant it too. The hot tip here is to maintain your resume in hand written HTML. This gets converted to text nicely by lynx -dump. Add Makefile, stir well. If you want to be a bad-ass, you can maintain your resume in latex, use tth to convert it to html and then lynx -dump to make it text. The latex will compile to postscript and pdf directly. Ka-chink! 4 formats, one source file. And you can use cvs to version control it... (Seeing a $Id$ tag in someone's resume is always a good sign from a technical point of view...) For text mail client users, you can also read .doc files the fun way by piping them to |strings|more. Unless they went ballistic with formatting, you can get the meat out of it quickly this way. If they were foolish to allow Fast-Save on their document, you can also see diffs which has proven to be very educational for me in the past... Then you can scare them by printing out the raw strings with |strings|enscript and bring that to the interview. ("What happened to the formatting of my resume?!" -- "Umm, it looked like that when we got it. Word must have screwed it up.") -Steve -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Steve Shah (sshah@clickarray.com) | Developer/Systems Administrator/Author http://www.clickarray.com | Voice: 408.284.4226 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beating code into submission, one OS at a time... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message