[CLUE-Tech] Star Office, MS Office and converting PS files to PDF files

[Keith Hellman]

I whole-heartedly concur with the approach; unfortunately I've run into HR
people that refuse to accept PDFs.  They only want word documents, so have
a reasonable and well crafted explanation on hand...

--- Kevin Cullis <kevincu at orci.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just wanted to let you all know, or at least those that may not know,
> that the filters in SO to MS office don't always work well enough.  I've
> sent resumes (and viewed my resume) on Word 2000 and the bullets don't
> come through good enough, as one example.  I also had a friend who's an
> HR person at AT&T look over my resume who uses Word and she made some
> "unfavorable" comments when she opened a SO filtered document.  While we
> all know that it's probably a MS thing, I can't change her view of
> resumes. So, what's a person to do?
> 
> Well, rather than sending my resume as a .doc file I've started sending
> it as as PDF file.  Saving my resume in SO as a file (see the print
> command and "save as file") I then using the ps2pdf command to create my
> resume in PDF. Boy, in nothing flat, it was done and with a minor change
> (those pesky bullets again), I had a good looking document to send to HR
> folks that I know will at least please them and get one step closer to
> getting in the door and not thrown into the circular file cabinet
> because it "doesn't look right."
> 
> Hope this helps someone.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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Keith E. Hellman
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