[oclug]Need some advice from senior IT people.

[Dana Webber]

The recruter at Ceyba told us to use simpe text with no
fancy formatting at all. I have even had trouble with tabs 
when pasting my resume into some web sites.

On Friday 31 January 2003 21:32, Dave O'Neill wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:03:59PM -0500, Brad Barnett wrote:
> > There's nothing wrong with having PDF or some such as well as DOC on your
> > website, but if you have DOC, make sure you write it with MSWord, and not
> > something like OOffice.org.  OOo is great, but nothing turns off an
> > employer like a misformated resume.  This is what you get out of OOo,
> > Staroffice and others when you do something even remotely complex in the
> > document.. like formating and bullets and such.
>
> Keep in mind that "complex" formatting is usually a bad idea on a resume
> anyway, unless you really want to show off your wordprocessing skills for
> some reason.  For anything that you'd need to put in a resume (font
> changes, bulleted lists, boldface text, and the like) OO.o can certainly
> handle creating a MSWord document that Word can read.
>
> If you're really paranoid about HR types not being able to read your
> resume, you can always revert to saving your document as RTF, but save the
> file with a .doc extension.  It does limit your formatting options (though
> you don't really need much beyond the capabilities of RTF) but chances are
> they'll never notice a difference.
>
> Another point that is key here: if you're going to make multiple formats
> available, generate them all from the same source document.  If you're
> going to make HTML, plaintext, PDF, and RTF available, make sure they're
> all identical.  Otherwise, someone who reads only the HTML version on your
> website might not see skills or experience you've updated in a different
> format.
>
> Dave

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Dana Webber
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