Nadav Har'El wrote: > Microsoft Word is a *word processing* format, not a hard-copy format. > Assuming you'd want to view and/or print your candidate's resumes, not > EDIT them, there is no reason to insist on this proprietary format.
It's done for 2 reasons: 1. Resume filing software is designed to read MS/Word format. I don't know about the company in question, but large companies don't read resumes, they scan them or dump them directly into resume processing software. Then the personel person can do a query on "job#123, linux, etc" and get the qualified people for that job. :-( 2. Most personel people are clueless about handeling attachments. Specifying MS/Word limits the resumes received to something they can virus check and anderstand. BTW, MS/Word format can easily be read and written by Open Office. Note that if you ever send me a resume, you can send it to me in MS/Word format. I'll gladly read it by "strings <file> | less". If I see the comment "Microsoft Resume Template" in it you can guess where it will go. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-54-608-069 Icq/AIM Uin: 2661079 MSN IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Not for email) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
