On Sun, Aug 15, 2010, Omer Zak wrote about "You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?": > Some of those companies (both placement and project subcontract work > outfits) look for a Linux software developer AND expect you to E-mail > them a MS-Word .doc file.
For some people who don't know better ".doc" or "word format" is a catch-all phrase meaning "something I can read on my PC". If you send them a PDF file (for example) and it just opens when they click it, they wouldn't know it isn't a .doc file ;-) If you send them an OpenOffice file, and try to convince them to install OpenOffice, and how much better, cheaper and free-er it is, they will look at you with bemusement. > But I would expect the subcontractors to have a clue about Linux > developers/users (no MS-Word, in other words). I'd also expect Linux developers to know that if they really wished, they can easily create a ".doc" file with OpenOffice... That being said, my CV is written in TeX, not OpenOffice, so I have to admit that if somebody insisted to have it in .doc, I'm not really sure what I would do... On the other hand my CV is also written in English, and I'm sure that some of these companies that insist on .doc never heard of this language ;-) > If YOU were looking for work now, how would YOU deal with such > companies? My only piece advice - remember that the practices of HR people in a certain company may have something to do about the practices of the whole company - but on the other hand they might not. The fact some HR person never heard of Linux might not mean that there aren't interesting Linux-related (or just Linux-friendly) jobs in that company. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Aug 16 2010, 6 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |May you live as long as you want - and http://nadav.harel.org.il |never want as long as you live. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
