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

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sunday 15 August 2010 23:28:44 Omer Zak 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

I maintain several CVs (a Hebrew one, a more brief English one and a more 
detailed English one) as HTML and when I am requested for a Word version, I 
normally open one of them in MS Word in the nearby computer and save them as 
word. Naturally, I am also able to convert the HTML to PDF using Firefox or 
something like that.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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