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Date:      Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:50:40 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "RW" <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: IE in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEHAFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200509221339.53708.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of RW
>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:40 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD?
>
>
>On Wednesday 21 September 2005 19:00, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>> >>> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 14:52, Ashley Moran wrote:
>> >>>> RW wrote:
>
>> >>> Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencies to
>> >>> specify MS Word
>> >>> documents only. It's a de facto standard.
>>
>> I have never gotten grief when I tell the recruiter that I do not
>> have Word and I do not support proprietary formats and then
>send a PDF.
>
>You are missing the point.
>
>If and when you *are* disadvantaged by using PDF, no-one will tell you.

Since a recruiter makes money by placing candidates they aren't going
to let a minor thing like the file format of the resume get in the way
of finding qualified product - I mean people - to sell to their
customers.
And if they do, you as a candidate don't want to have anything to do with
them because if they are that incompetent to deal with that simple of a
thing they are going to certainly munge your placement.

Since the HR people in a company almost always pretty much regard resumes
as nuisance items to deal with - except for the few times in the year
that
they actually are under the gun to find someone - I can believe that some
fat-assed old cow in a HR department might be willing to make a stink
over
the file format a resume is in.

Ted




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