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

[shimi]

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

> If YOU were looking for work now, how would YOU deal with such
> companies?
>
>
OpenOffice can save its files in .doc format. Of course, the alignment won't
be perfect, so I say:

"I use open products and prefer not to expense $1K for writing documents,
when I already have software that does the same for free. I also prefer not
to pirate copyrighted software. For this reason, I am attaching a PDF file
that will display my CV exactly like I wrote them. My software can also
export to DOC, but it doesn't look as good as the original. I prefer you'll
use the PDF, [ but if you insist - if they refused the PDF], please find the
attached converted to .DOC format"

If they don't like it not good looking in .DOC and would refuse you based on
that... would have you even wanted a Linux job there in the first place? :)

-- Shimi
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