[ale] Resume formatting (was: Anyone looking for a new gig?)

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 14:22:13 EDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:

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> Unfortunately, when exporting to Word, OOo doesn't have the ability to
> password-protect the document to prevent it from being altered.  To
> compensate, I'm thinking the route to go is to play dumb and send the resume
> as a bitmap image inside the Word doc with an alter-resistant background.
>  My guess is at that point the recruiter has a few choices: ask you to make
> the changes and resubmit it, OCR it and change it him or herself, round-file
> it, alter it without regard as to whether the employer is going to notice,
> or send it in as-is.


Can you elaborate on how to make an alter-resistant background with the
gimp. It will be added to my bag of (evil to windblows lusers) tricks.

That ranks up there with having a copyright notice on the resume.

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> Robert~
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