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

[Moish]

On 16/08/2010 12:38, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> 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... ;-)
>

You almost made me run to shave my army's uniform beret
and scrub my belt with sandpaper so I won't look totally like a rookie :)

P.S. I still keep Qtext documents and software. Anyone?

-- 
Moish