Resumes

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The most valuable resources of any successful hi-tech company are its engineers for without them there would be nothing to sell and it is they that chiefly set the company apart from others with which it competes. But good engineers are always in short supply and high demand, predictably leading to a glut of mediocre engineers looking to fill that

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[andukar]

But no problem servers?

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Sadly, no. It would have been funny if somebody else made that exact same mistake too.

[kinthelt]

Oh, wow. Sounds like you work for a decent company!

How do you know that the applicant is using a hard line-break in the middle of a sentence? Please don't tell me they're coming in in Word format!

What's wrong with "Just Another Vague Acronym"? ;)

I hope to never be called a code-monkey. I'm somewhere between a code-bonobo and code-gorilla. You guys hiring code-higher-primates? :)

[quikchange]

I knew it was a hard line break because the line wrapped long before it had reached the right margin; I am fairly certain that one was, in fact, a Word document. Why the hell don't people just use PDF...?

If you're willing to move down here, we'd definitely be interested in somebody of your calibre :-)

[theenforcer]

Mine wraps 'cause I tabularized it in HTML. Does that make me incompetent? No, seriously, does it?

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Nothing on anybody's resume can make them incompetent. However, a resume that looks like not much care went into it gives the impression that the person who created it is prepared to release shoddy work.

[jfpoole]

Too bad they didn't claim the X in MAX OS was for "EXTREME!!!".

[lambda_calculus]

Extensible markup is pretty Xtreme in my books.

[victory_is_me]

I remember when Tara first applied to jobs through Jobmine, she was panicking over where to put her line breaks on an HTML resume (ie, placed so that it looked nice on a computer screen, or placed so that it looked nice when the employers inevitably printed them out)...

[quikchange]

Yeah, that's a toughie alright. Technically it is possible to use stylesheets to create a single resume that looks good both on screen and on paper but in reality JobMine ought to let students submit 2 versions of their resume for each job - one for print and the other for the screen.

[enigmaticdan]

I'd agree with that... or just have IST provide free Adobe Acrobat and let us all make PDF versions.

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They already do, I think. Isn't OpenOffice available on the UW computer lab systems? In any case, it's free so you can use it to generate PDFs on your own computer. And if you have a Mac then OS X lets you make PDFs out of anyting :-)