[CLUE-Talk] Marketing Your Linux Skills

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Friday 07 May 2004 01:26 pm, Chris Schock wrote:
> It just seems wrong that recruiters look for some unix/linux die hard with
> 10 years of experience by perusing Word documents for selection.
>
> I understand that recruiters themselves are not technical people and thus
> are bound by the software Corporate America uses, but unix/linux and Word
> documents just... seems wrong.

It is actually depends on who you are targeting.
If you are going after silicon valley type business who are into Linux/OSS, 
then you are better off with a pdf/text.

If you are going after a company that is based on MS, a job recruiter at a 
standard place, or a large company (HP, Qwest, etc). then you are much better 
off with a word or rtf format. As patty pointed out earlier, there is 
software that the large companies use for parseing word format (including 
rtf) to suck the resume into a DB.



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cheers
g.r.r.
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