You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

Why? Can't your OpenOffice create doc files?

It you are to make a war about it, fine, but you might miss some of the
better jobs because the subcontractor's HR are not technical people, and if
your CV is a little more difficult to open in their own software or
whatever, your loss. Next.
If you do it because it doesn't look good (it might look different as DOC
created by OO), then know they don't care. They feed the doc into their
software and look for keywords, pretty or not.

So... What is your motive? What is your war?

Ez

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:

> I am now looking for work, and am undergoing the usual drill of sending
> E-mail messages in response to job/project ads and referrals.
>
> My mode of operation is to E-mail the URL to my CV in my Website.  Light
> and sweet E-mail and the receipient's E-mail client has the convenient
> affordance of letting the receipient see my CV by clicking on the URL in
> the E-mail message.
>
> I encountered an interesting phenomenon.
>
> Some of those companies (both placement and project subcontract work
> outfits) look for a Linux software developer AND expect you to E-mail
> them a MS-Word .doc file.
>
> My current rule of thumb is to accommodate the job placement companies -
> they just matchmake according to keywords, and they have too much work
> to educate their workers about the foibles of Linux developers.
>
> But I would expect the subcontractors to have a clue about Linux
> developers/users (no MS-Word, in other words).
>
> If YOU were looking for work now, how would YOU deal with such
> companies?
>
> --- Omer
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