From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson (gsm_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 15 Jan 2004 - 20:53:16 IST
Nadav Har'El wrote:
> Microsoft Word is a *word processing* format, not a hard-copy format.
> Assuming you'd want to view and/or print your candidate's resumes, not
> EDIT them, there is no reason to insist on this proprietary format.
It's done for 2 reasons:
1. Resume filing software is designed to read MS/Word format. I don't know
about the company in question, but large companies don't read resumes,
they scan them or dump them directly into resume processing software.
Then the personel person can do a query on "job#123, linux, etc" and
get the qualified people for that job. :-(
2. Most personel people are clueless about handeling attachments. Specifying
MS/Word limits the resumes received to something they can virus check and
anderstand.
BTW, MS/Word format can easily be read and written by Open Office.
Note that if you ever send me a resume, you can send it to me in MS/Word
format. I'll gladly read it by "strings <file> | less". If I see the
comment "Microsoft Resume Template" in it you can guess where it will go.
Geoff.
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