[Cialug] Robert Half and/or local consulting company experiences.

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2010-01-17 at 23:30:56, Jeff Davis wrote:
>If you get sent on an interview, take copies of your resume.
>Since pretty much every recruiter wants your resume in Word
>format (most will just remove your name and add their letterhead)
>you never know if they altered something in your skill set.

I maintain my resume in LaTeX format and make a PDF available. If it was 
required to submit something in Word, i'd convert the LaTeX to some 
bitmapped image format (by way of PostScript as an intermediary) and 
then paste the bitmap into a Word document. That would be the easiest 
way to preserve the look and feel of the document while meeting the 
format requirement. (One time i did just that for a college assignment 
that required a Word document after the time that i'd upgraded my 
knowledge to include LaTeX.) What do you think they'd do with my 
hypothetical resume in Word format?

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