Problem with resume and TeX
Well, I like TeX. I really like TeX. Especially LaTeX, however ConTeXt looks much nicer. I use this to write some documents, last week I rewrote my resume to look a little bit nicer. I used Kile and LaTeX and converted it to a pdf. So now I’ve got a nice resume and some letters to some companies written in LaTeX. I’ve got them in some strange(?) formats like dvi or pdf.
I thought that there wouldn’t be any problems with this.
Problem 1
There are some advertisements where it is written
Please send us your resume in the Word format.
or:
Please send us your resume in the *.doc file.
Well, I don’t have one. I usually send pdfs.
Problem 2
I sent an email with pdf files. I’ve got reply that the files are not in the Word format. Could I send in this format? I answered “no, you can’t”. Usually there is a reply: “OK, no problem”.
But sometimes it is:
Sorry, you can’t apply to this job if we don’t have your resume in this format.
Well, what a pity.
Problem 3
There is no sensible (I don’t know of any) converter from LaTeX/PDF to Word.
A Geek?
Well, I’ve got a nice resume, in the pdf properties there is information that it was written using LaTeX, coool. I’ve got a coooool geeky resume, sometimes unusable but it is coool.
Cool.