[ale] Resume formatting (was: Anyone looking for a new gig?)

Jeff Lightner jlightner at water.com
Mon Oct 13 15:06:42 EDT 2008


I find it amusing that folks seem to treat recruiters as the enemy
rather than a first step to get in the door.

 

Is it really that hard to say "sorry not interested" when asked about a
job for which you have no interest or qualification?

 

Expecting them to know as much about every job they represent as the
potential candidates seems to require a divine status that few could
achieve.

 

The only recruiters that ever really annoyed me were the ones that were
clearly mining me for information rather than sending leads my way.
Luckily they are few and far between.   You learn very quickly to not
answer questions about who you're interviewing with and only tell them
if they happen to mention a job that sounds similar to one you're
already being presented for.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 2:22 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Resume formatting (was: Anyone looking for a new
gig?)

 

 

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:

 

 

Unfortunately, when exporting to Word, OOo doesn't have the ability to
password-protect the document to prevent it from being altered.  To
compensate, I'm thinking the route to go is to play dumb and send the
resume as a bitmap image inside the Word doc with an alter-resistant
background.  My guess is at that point the recruiter has a few choices:
ask you to make the changes and resubmit it, OCR it and change it him or
herself, round-file it, alter it without regard as to whether the
employer is going to notice, or send it in as-is.


Can you elaborate on how to make an alter-resistant background with the
gimp. It will be added to my bag of (evil to windblows lusers) tricks. 

That ranks up there with having a copyright notice on the resume.

	
	
	Cheers,
	Robert~

	
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