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Subject:Re: a different resume red flag From:"Clayton A. Oliver" <bad_karma -at- mindspring -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:53:21 -0400 (EDT)
Quoth Monica Cellio <cellio -at- pobox -dot- com>:
>You should never send a Word source file anyway, because different
>versions of Word sometimes render things differently and your nice
>formatting might not come out that way on the other end. Send PDF
>instead.
Hmm. I've seen a _lot_ of ads on Monster and other sites that specifically ask for applicants to send their resumes as Word documents. Is RTF generally considered an acceptable alternative to PDF? I was under the impression that it was more of a cross-platform/cross-version format than Word.
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