[Leaplist] Linux Job

[John Simpson]

On 2009-11-01, at 0958, Ray Brunkow wrote:
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
>>
>
> being an ass here.  Now I have to ask why the fuck 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.

99% chance it's careerbuilder who wants a word doc, not the actual  
employer.

and they ask because their software knows how to read a word doc and  
pull out phrases like "system administrator" or "SQL". they can't do  
that with a PDF... although truth be told they probably could, if the  
PDF contained text, however so many scanning programs out there will  
"scan to PDF", there's no guarantee that any given PDF will be  
readable- many PDF files contain images rather than text, and trying  
to explain the difference to most people is more hassle than it's  
worth. when people see "PDF file", they don't understand that it's a  
generic container format which may contain any combination of text,  
images, sounds, animations, and other objects.

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