[Leaplist] Linux Job

[Bryan J Smith]

Hank Lambert wrote:
> In case anyone is interested:
> http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?sc_extcmp=JS_JobAlert_Title&ipath=PSSKGT14P&psa=1&Job_DID=J3G65F6TPLGJ113DDW9

Ray Brunkow wrote:
> being an ass here.  Now I have to ask why the fsck would a Linux job
> mandate only MS Word type document or plane text?  why no pdf, or
> better yet ODF formats?  bloody rude.  thank you for the link though.

Hank Lambert wrote:
> My guess it that the resume goes to HR, and they more than likely use
> Microsoft and have no idea what ODF formats are. Even with the great
> strides Linux is making (Ubuntu 9.10 looks really nice), it's still a MS
> world in businesses, and Windows 7 might just reinforce the stranglehold.
> I know...it sucks ;)

No, this is yet another HR/recruiting foul-up.  I've been at the center
of some of these lately too.  When the HR departments and recruiters
require DOC (and who knows what version), it causes clients, companies,
managers and leads to _ignore_ the candidate.

I have worked with several potential 3rd parties and, in a few cases, HR
departments to use OpenOffice.org for Linux candidate submissions.  Once
you start talking in terms of their _loss_ of a candidate, it sticks.

There are a _huge_ number of defense and federal positions here around
DC doing nothing but Linux and open source.  Not just servers, but more
and more front-end systems, OpenOffice.org and Firefox, etc...

This concept that "it's a MS Office world" is *NOT* remotely true.  It's
a "leftover" from HR and other people believing it.  I don't know of
_any_ enterprise, let alone defense or federal agency, pushing MS Office
anymore, and _all_ of them are _not_ upgrading to Windows 7 for at least
a couple of years.

In fact, between Microsoft breaking most Windows infrastructure
solutions and various of their own apps in NT 6 (Vista, 2008 and 7), and
not implementing their own ISO Office OpenXML (OOXML) standard in MS
Office (not until version 14) many companies have _not_ upgraded.  My
current client is still at MS Office 9 (2000) and OpenOffice.org is an
_approved_ piece of software.

I use OpenOffice.org 3.1 on my client's Windows system to convert DOCX
to DOC regularly for their own users.  And this client is _not_ small,
but the largest federal department with the largest IT budget outside of
the military.  ;)


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