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

[Shahar Dag]

Hello

You can create doc files using the online SkyDrive by Microsoft (accessed 
via windows live).

There is a plug-in for MS office that opens OO documents (I think it is a 
Sun free product) but I don't have the url for it

Shahar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Omer Zak" <w1 at zak.co.il>
To: "linux-il" <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 11:28 PM
Subject: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requestedto 
provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?


>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?
>
> --- Omer
>
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