17 Dec
2008
17 Dec
'08
6:46 p.m.
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 01:38:01 am Doc Shipley wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
:-)
I've been a little bothered by the "non mainstream" essence of my background
and interests in terms of employment prospects and similar, until I was just
contacted by somebody who observed in my online profile at one place I posted
a decidedly "non-peecee" flavor to things, which as it turned out was just
what they were looking for.
A pleasant turn of events, to be sure!
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, John Floren wrote:
One of my friends got fed up with headhunters who insisted on MS-WORD
format resumes - for UNIX admin positions. He rendered the rresume to
PostScript, used ImageMagick to render the pages at very low resolution
to TIFF, rotated each page a degree or two, and then inserted each page
as a full-page picture object in Word.
It's magnificently awful. That's why I always just send people straight
troff documents! Now to
find out why that company hasn't gotten back to me about the resume I
sent in...
They probably only accept resumes in WordPervert form.
How important is FORMAT in a resume?
Does it need PDF?
Does it need PS?
Does it even need HTML?
What color paper?
What texture paper do they need to be on?
Do they need a scent added? Has smell-o-vision been standardized yet?