On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, the hatter wrote:
> But finding firms where the geeks collect the CVs is > tricky, and just because the HR department suck doesn't necessarily make > it a bad place. I'm in charge (allegedly) of engineering recruitment in my office, and get a large bunch of CVs through every week (especially when we have no adverts or solicitations of any kind). The thing I find strange is that 90% of the mails I get from techy people (even the good ones and not only the ones who apply for a job as a C++/Perl database programmer on VMS when their only experience is writing a homepage about their cat in frontpage...rant...) attach a word doc CV. I run windows at work, and as such don't have too much hassle with this, but it's still surprising. Another annoying trend I've seen recently is people sending covering letters as word docs as well, leaving an entirely blank email with the title "Recruitment"...I don't know if this is a statement on the competence of the people who send me CVs, or just a statement in general... or something anyway, (like I need to tell you lot) don't do it. At least put something in your email saying what TYPE of job your applying for... hmm billy -- "The sky was the colour of television, tuned to a dead whelk" Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
