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Re: the unexpected challenges of applying for a job
Subject:Re: the unexpected challenges of applying for a job From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"Erica Sullivan" <docudiva -at- hotmail -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:31:40 -0500
Erica Sullivan wrote about the joys of using forms online to submit a
resume.
One thing that makes it easier is to keep a plain text version of your
resume for easy copying and pasting. I use Notepad, and I turn Word
Wrap off, so that the form itself handles line breaks. I haven't yet
encountered a text form that didn't handle it correctly (and I have
submitted my resume like that thousands of zillions of times).
But I have encountered whole systems that didn't work properly, so I
dropped a line to the company and it gave me an alternative way of
submitting my information.
