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.doc comes to mind

• lsc 15y ago
  yeah, they all /ask/ for .doc format, but if you see what the hiring manager gets? it's mangled crap. Text would be far more readable. I'd bet money that .txt (or ascii in a file that happens to be named .doc) works better with the buzzword bingo software the recruiters use.
  • code_duck 15y ago
    The question was whether 'serious people' use something other than plain text files. The answer is yes, they do. And honestly I have no idea what this is about since a .txt resume would look like rather bleak. Your answer seems to be about something else. When I email a MS Office document to a prospective employer, they do not get 'mangled crap'. Why would they? I'm not talking about recruiters or the lousy job sites the rest of the thread is about.
    • lsc 15y ago
      the "serious people" remark is a joke. I use the xml resume library and generate several formats from my xml source, not that I am a particularly serious person. Now, I do use txt if I need to actually attach a resume. As far as I can tell, the document management systems recruiters use that want .doc format are, uh, not very good at all. But, from looking through resumes from a recruiter, I do stand by my 'mangled crap' comment. I don't know what they do with the things, but half of them come up formatted horribly. My guess is that the system recruiters use to strip off contact info and do keyword searches combines with some subtle version incompatibility in Microsoft products.
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