> 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 ;-)
But some other people insist on a doc file because they can edit it.. Most typically these are placement companies, headhunters, and such others who add their own opinions, recommendations, interview summaries, logos, etc. Sometimes they also want to strip direct comtact information from the CV. Being on the other (hiring) end from time to time I've seen my share of these. These folks cannot edit PDFs (without a major expense and effort of acquiring and learning to use some Adobe product, which is out of the question), and they also think they are at a disadvantage if they send two files (the original CV and their summary) instead of one. I have also heard - I cannot confirm it but it does not sound too farfetched - that some HR departments use content management systems, i.e., some sort of a database with a GUI, to store CVs, applications, interview summaries, etc., and some such systems barf on any attachment that is not .doc. (Maybe they won't barf with some additional configuration, but that's too much to ask.) > 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... My CV is written in LaTeX as well. I convert it to HTML using latex2html and do some relatively minor manual tweaks to the result. I go through this effort specifically for people who do not have a PDF reader. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | o...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
