[ale] Resume

[John Wells]

Um....my AbiWord has an option to save as a .doc.  I think it's really rtf
with an additional header, but who cares as long as they think it's a
.doc.  That should work.

John

Robert L. Harris said:
>
>
> I'm reading all the responses to this guy and getting miffed as I can
> imagine he probably is.
>
> When you are out of work or likely to be and you NEED a job you do what
> the recruiters want, you don't "tell them" to do anything like install
> acrobat, etc.  You don't "tell them" to use a different format.
>
> When you make their life hard they can your resume and write you off.
> Most recruiters got very spoiled in the .com boom because they got big
> fees for doing nothing more than send emails.  Now they have to try and
> figure out things they either forgot or didn't know in the first place.
>
> Those sitting in nice happy jobs stop and think how you'd be if you
> "needed a job".  I don't know his situation of if he's at this point but
> I do know what I'm talking about as I was there just recently.
>
>
> Tom, use abiword and the rtf, just email it to the recruiter as an
> attachment.  When they ask why it's not in .doc, tell them it's from a
> M$ office beta product, they should get it in 2 years, but their word
> will read it just fine.
>
> Another option if you have a copy of word around is to get
> codeweavers.com office platform, it works very well and is what I use
> when someone "needs" something in .doc.
>
> Last but least, write it up in rtf and find someone to convert it for
> ya.
>
> Robert
>
>
> *snip*
>
>>
>> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 23:07, tom wrote:
>> > I have posted this before, but I need some input. I am looking for a
>> job, non technical in nature and need a resume in .doc format.
>> Abiword does that, but you have to paste it into evolution. If I do
>> it in HTML, it loses it structure a lot of times. If I do it in vi,
>> can I change the font size and underline text, etc? Finally, using
>> Windows is not an option, as I do not own a copy and my recovery
>> disk is lost.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > tom
>
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> :wq!
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