[Gllug] Recruit scum

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:39:51PM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> Tethys wrote:
> >Peter Adamson writes:
> >
> >
> >>CV's in ASCII only
> >
> >
> >I'd argue PDF as well. After all, presentation can sometimes be important.
> I tried that and it causes difficulty because the recruitment firm want 
> to take your contact details off to try to prevent the company 
> contacting you directly.
> 
> As has been suggested many of these people have difficulty editing a 
> word processing file.  Even to the extent of - "You have sent me a file 
> with rtf on the end, I cannot use that, may I have a word document 
> instead?  We run Word 98 and it cannot open these files."
> 
> :-)

$ mv cv.rtf cv.doc

It's odd this topic's come up since I've had about 5 calls from agents in
the last two weeks.

Pete
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