[Fsf-friends] CSIR uses only Microsoft

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

hi,

this is in reply to an old thread, but none the less. take a look at
the job pages of leading dailies - how many actually mention
explicitly the format ? this is an outcome of "wordprocessed
document=MS Word document" that plagues a lot of such organisations.
Oh by the way, recently a friend had the misfortune of sending in a
OO document saved as .doc for a job - received a reply that they do
not support using 'pirated software' and this is from a leading MNC
DTP company ! the hitch in this case was that although they have a
template - this 'should' be used only with MS Word 2000. this would
have meant an upgrade for my friend and he circumvented with OOv1.1

i really fail to understand why do companies not accept plain text or
html resumes - saves both parties enormous amount of trouble. perhaps
appropriate fora (does one to admit proposals along these lines exist
?) should be approached.

regards
sankarshan


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