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I never wanted to make this about myself, but I thought it appropriate to point out that I just received and accepted an offer from a place I interviewed with last week (one of the few fantastic interview experiences I've had). Much thanks to all the encouragements and good lucks, and even queries.
Now, please ignore this message, and return to our regularly scheduled discussion. :)
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"* pdf, text, or webpage: no .doc" I personally think this is being overly picky, but as long as you make it clear that you only accept resumes in these formats there is no problem. I once sent a cold job application to a company that had no resume format requirement on its career page. I sent my resume in .doc. I could have sent it in PDF or something else, but in my experience most companies prefer to receive resum…
Yeah, it's somewhat frustrating how some people will screen you for sending a .DOC, and some people will screen you for NOT sending a .DOC. For extra fun, let's ask whether we should wear a suit to the interview: must wear for consideration, or immediate disqualification/no-hire? There's disagreement there as well. The only safe advice is to ask ahead of time; unfortunately for you, there was no one to ask. Dysfuncti…
Yeah I do think that is equally stupid as well. To me doc, pdf, text or even odf is fair game.
For example, I bet you don't appreciate clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/f4OF , whereas http://www.1man1jar.com/ tells you everything you need to know, and it's easier to transfer from a piece of paper to your short term memory to the URL bar in your web browser.