[Gllug] We can put an end to Word attachments

[Vincent AE Scott]

Ivan Shiel(ivan.shiel at scope.org.uk)@Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:56:08PM -0000:
> 
> >Also many of the Linux packages produce fonts that look fine as a .doc in
> >say staroffice or abiword but look like shite in Word  
> 
> Funny you should say this.
> 
> When I was applying for a job via several agencies I sent them all a very
> nicely formatted little CV in Word - nothing too fancy.
> 
> At one interview I was alarmed to see the version of the CV the agency had
> sent.  Instead of just removing the address details (as they must to
> maintain their middle man status) the agency monkey had cut and pasted the
> whole thing to a new document and destroyed the formatting entirely (no
> tables, no bold, no size changes) and made me look a right prat.  The
> interviewer spent the whole interview squinting at the CV and giving me very
> odd looks.
> 
> 

It's good practise to take a copy of your CV along in old fashioned
pulped wood format.


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