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

[Omer Zak]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 00:05 +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> On יום ראשון 15 אוגוסט 2010 23:28:44 Omer Zak wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The problem is that 1224% of the chick reading those emails are complete 
> ignorant about technology. IF they don't see the (W) icon on their Outlook, 
> they do not know what to do with it. PDF is many time out of the question as 
> well, never even tested TXT. 
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> The problem is that the first line of defence between you and a potential job, 
> are those lame secretaries, and dumb CEOs.

Actually, I want to avoid dumb CEOs.

Lame secretaries are a different story, however.  It is not their job to
understand the difference between PDF and RTF.

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