[ale] Resume

[James P. Kinney III]

I lost my job over a year ago. I send out resumes at the rate of 50-100
per week. I regularly enclose multiple copies, text, pdf, html, rtf are
my usual formats. Any recruiter who actually HAS a real job they are
trying to fill, will do ANYTHING to get that position filled. Even open
a pdf document. Nearly every machine can read pdfs. It preserves the
formatting exactly as I wrote it.

I used to send .doc as requested. Until I was turned down for a position
because the .doc format I sent (through a recruiter) showed up infected
with a macro virus. They (the hiring company) decided I didn't know
enough about systems to avoid getting a virus. I wrote the resume in
OpenOffice.org (943c) and saved it as a .doc at the request of the
recruiter. 

It will be a very cold day in hell before I send another resume as a
.doc.

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 09:52, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> :wq!
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> Robert L. Harris                
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