Paul Lussier wrote: > Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I was speaking of my experience of recruiters I've dealt with, both >> looking for, and applying for jobs. They tend to have no idea what >> they're doing and throw as many people at as many jobs as possible. >> These people, in my opinion, are goofs. You talk to them about how >> you're a Linux/Unix admin and after the 4th call about a MSCE job, >> and after explaining AGAIN that you do not want a job that's mostly >> MS, and that you don't have a MSCE your opinion of these people that >> are suppose to be helping you goes down. >> > Which is why most just don't deal with them :) > There are some good ones out there, but very difficult to find, admittedly. > My first experiences with recruiters were about 30 years ago, in both the employer and employee roles. We needed an "experienced electronics assembler." We got someone who had swept up in what she thought was an electronics factory and a rather puzzled bakery chef (admittedly, the top floor of our building did have a restaurant). I was writing accounting and database applications on the side; I was repeatedly offered graphical game development and device level assembly programming contracts. I changed my phone number to stop them calling. My low opinion of them has not improved since then. I've heard there are good ones; I never encountered one.
In regards to the Word document issue, you do what you need to do to get the job (or get the job done). Despite being considered a Linux zealot at my office, I feel I am moderately agnostic. If someone sends me a Word or Excel document, I open it in OpenOffice (which I prefer on its own merits). If they need a Word or Excel document, I save it from OpenOffice in those formats. The important thing is to communicate with them, not only evangelize - definitely not offend, which gains no converts. (Oblig story/ A client had a PowerPoint document they could not open in PowerPoint on other machines. I opened it in OpenOffice, resaved it as PowerPoint and then they could open it everywhere. /End Oblig Story) -- Dan Jenkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA --- 1-603-206-9951 *** Technical Support Excellence for over a Quarter Century _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
