From: Todd E Van Hoosear (vanhoose@manetheren.cl.msu.edu)
Date: 10/14/03
[This discussion surrounds a job posting on a general discussion news
group at my alma mater (I know, I know, wrong newsgroup, should've been
msu.jobs). The poster, DPK, specifically requested that applicants NOT
submit MS-Word documents for an open UNIX developer position... - Ed.]
From: DPK
Newsgroups: msu.misc
Subject: Re: Student web development position
Date: 22 Nov 2002 23:17:02 GMT
Jason Coleman wrote:
> ha h ha...this seems like a combination of some pretty good anti-
> Microsoft plus a pretty effective filter on your applicants. After all,
> how many students know how to generate a raw Postscript or have Adobe
> Acrobat on their personal machines, and who wants to submit a resume in
> plain text, but I guess if that's all you've got...
>
> Actually, is Acrobat installed in the labs these days?
>
> There seems to me a certain irony to having to go to a lab-likely MS
> powered to produce a PDF file to apply for a Unix job. :)
I won't add my personal comments on Microsoft, but I'm sure quite a few
could tell you exactly how I feel :) I would rather call it "pro open
source and free software".
I do see it as an effective tool to determine who can follow directions
and apply themselves. Uses MS Word and saves to a text file? Good.
Configures a Postscript printer driver and prints the MS Word document
to a Postscript file? Nice, even better. Takes the Postscript file and
converts it to a PDF? Now you are catching on. The resume is
generated from a LaTeX document (which is quite noticable) ?
Priceless... A person after my own heart.
Also, persons browsing our website (a good thing to do when applying for
any position) will notice a web-based Postscript to PDF conversion tool
developed using free software. All you need is a web browser instead of
expensive, proprietary software to create PDFs.
Dpk
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