On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:07:21PM +0200, Dmitry Ivanov wrote:
> On Thursday 24 February 2005 08:50, you wrote:
>> I keep my resume in latex and recently in xml with xmlresume.
>> Xmlresume is a makefile and some DTDs which converts from xml to
>> different formats. I am planning to install some java virtual machine
>> but before that I wanted to know what do you guys use to keep your
>> resume in NetBSD.
>
> I have discovered recently that most recruiters in UK _require_ CV in MS 
> Word format. LaTeX and PDF doesn't work with them anymore... They 
> refuse to read PDF or follow URL that points to CV. They read only *.do 
> attached to email. I'm looking for new job right now and I have to 
> install OpenOffice to refrmat CV. OpenOffice produces nice PDF output 
> as well as *.doc.

Plain text imports nicely into MS-Word. =)

But yeah, I've had to keep an old version of MS-Word around, but that
version of my resume doesn't get updated as often as the troff source.

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Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org