[ale] Anyone looking for a new gig?

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:48 -0400, George L. Allen wrote:
> (My $0.02 'technical repremand:) Last time I was job hunting - I would have
> loved to have found one recruiter/employer/someone who would bother to read
> a PDF/ASCII/html/XML/LaTeX resume instead of demanding one in MS Word
> format.
> 

Several years ago I hit the same frustrating wall. A recruiter was
wanting a format I didn't have (duh - msword) so he could remove my
identification header to prevent the company from doing an end-run
around him. It had never occurred to him to take my PDF, print it, cover
the header with his banner and _then_ fax it over. I have found that
most recruiters require MSword because they will edit it for the same
reason. 

I once emailed my resume as an OpenOffice file along with a link for
OpenOffice. I didn't get that contract but the last time I spoke with
them, they were using OpenOffice regularly.

The classic was the perl script resume. On a Linux box it would simply
print the ascii resume to the screen. I wanted to tinker with it and
make it a self-executing zip file that would do other stuff (open
browser, etc) on winders but I got tired of tinkering with it.