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

[Amos Shapira]

On 16 August 2010 20:38, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:
> 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... ;-)

No argument about LaTex looking simply fantastic, and possibly typing
formatting commands could beat point-n-click.
But it also sounds like 99% of the audience want DOC files and it's a
lot of effort to maintain that format from LaTeX,
isn't it?

BTW - My CV also starts long before *Office days, possibly around
about the time LaTeX cam about, but I also moved on from my earliest
CV's....

Good luck again to all the job seekers.

--Amos