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

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 August 2010 17:41, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:
>> My CV is written in LaTeX as well. I convert it to HTML using
>> latex2html and do some relatively minor manual tweaks to the result. I
>> go through this effort specifically for people who do not have a PDF
>> reader.
>
> All this effort to prove that you don't succumb to the fluff of using
> an office suite?
>
> Doesn't sound very time efficient to me. I hope for you that you don't
> have to tell the potential employers how much time/effort you spend on
> maintaining a three page document... :^).

No one has ever asked, but the answer would be, much less than
maintaining a structured document in an office suite - any office
suite - and with a MUCH better end result.

Hint: the computer does all the presentational side for me, and does
it much better than I could hope to do manually. I concentrate on the
content. It would be even more trouble to do presentation by hand in
the case of a CV that I edit once in a few years. I just add another
"\employment{}" structure or something of the kind, and voila!

The above is essentially the same as Muli's comment (he said he was
not speaking for me), and Nadav's is relevant as well... ;-)

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Oleg Goldshmidt | oleg at goldshmidt.org