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

[Dov Grobgeld]

>From my experience with HR companies and looking for jobs, it is not true
that anything readable equals doc for them. Very often will the HR company
forward an "anonymized" version of the CV to the company, and only after the
company show the interest (and pay money?) will they give the remaining
details. And this anonymizing is done by editing the doc.

(Editing a PDF document is obviously something much more complex, though
inkscape does a great job of it these days.)

Regards,
Dov

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:38, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010, Omer Zak wrote about "You develop in Linux and are
> looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what
> would you do?":
> > 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.
>
> For some people who don't know better ".doc" or "word format" is a
> catch-all
> phrase meaning "something I can read on my PC". If you send them a PDF file
> (for example) and it just opens when they click it, they wouldn't know it
> isn't
> a .doc file ;-) If you send them an OpenOffice file, and try to convince
> them
> to install OpenOffice, and how much better, cheaper and free-er it is, they
> will look at you with bemusement.
>
> > But I would expect the subcontractors to have a clue about Linux
> > developers/users (no MS-Word, in other words).
>
> I'd also expect Linux developers to know that if they really wished, they
> can easily create a ".doc" file with OpenOffice...
>
> That being said, my CV is written in TeX, not OpenOffice, so I have to
> admit
> that if somebody insisted to have it in .doc, I'm not really sure what I
> would
> do... On the other hand my CV is also written in English, and I'm sure that
> some of these companies that insist on .doc never heard of this language
> ;-)
>
> > If YOU were looking for work now, how would YOU deal with such
> > companies?
>
> My only piece advice - remember that the practices of HR people in a
> certain
> company may have something to do about the practices of the whole company -
> but on the other hand they might not. The fact some HR person never heard
> of
> Linux might not mean that there aren't interesting Linux-related (or just
> Linux-friendly) jobs in that company.
>
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