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  • Re: I Like Libre Office

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Digital Man on Thursday, April 23, 2026 06:53:42
    Digital Man wrote to Mortar <=-

    Even resumes are often submitted as plain text via email.

    That's not been my experience.

    My daughter is applying for first jobs, and we helped her with a
    resume. She opted for the heavy-weight, bone-colored fancy paper.
    Reminded me of my first resumes, thinking back, I don't know where I
    would have printed them -- I had a crappy 9-pin dot matrix printer.

    Waitaminute - I got my first job doing accounting data entry by showing
    up. My next job was the one that I needed a resume for, and we had
    LaserWriters at the first job. I worked opening and closing shifts
    managing a midrange computer, so I usually had an hour and a half
    without any other employees around.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Thursday, April 23, 2026 06:53:42
    Nightfox wrote to Mortar <=-

    I've submitted very few resumes via email; I've seen relatively few job postings for my type of work that instruct to send a resume to an email address rather than having an online application to fill out & upload
    my resume.

    I hate job sites that ask you to upload your resume, then ask you to
    hand enter all of the information on the resume into their database...

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, April 23, 2026 10:13:49
    Re: Re: I Like Libre Office
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Apr 23 2026 06:53 am

    I've submitted very few resumes via email; I've seen relatively few job
    postings for my type of work that instruct to send a resume to an email
    address rather than having an online application to fill out & upload my
    resume.

    I hate job sites that ask you to upload your resume, then ask you to hand enter all of the information on the resume into their database...

    I don't like that either, but the ones that parse your resume to fill out the form automatically usually don't do it very well, so you end up having to do a lot of it manually anyway.

    Nightfox

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Friday, April 24, 2026 07:23:50
    Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I don't like that either, but the ones that parse your resume to fill
    out the form automatically usually don't do it very well, so you end up having to do a lot of it manually anyway.

    My son is just starting out in employment with a college degree, and was complaining about having to apply to a handful of companies. He got a
    paid internship that's lasted a year and keeps getting extended.

    I showed him my OneNote "Job Search" notebook, I sent out something like
    130+ resumes after I was laid off in 2016 - and I know people who've
    sent many more. I hope I saw all of the poorly done candidate intake
    processes then.

    One company that was hiring for a video conferencing manager wanted you
    to send them a video of you -- mind you, this is for a behind the camera position, not on-camera talent!



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  • From Kaptain_Krawdad@VERT/ENSEMBLE to poindexter FORTRAN on Friday, April 24, 2026 18:32:08
    Re: Re: I Like Libre Office
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Kaptain_Krawdad on Mon Apr 20 2026 07:25 am

    Kaptain_Krawdad wrote to UTOPIAN GALT <=-

    Poor Clippy.

    I'm sure somewhere in the dark recesses of a neglected hallway in a
    disused building in Redmond, Washington, someone's written a Clippy text-to-speech addon for CoPilot.


    ... Walk without rhythm and you won't attact the worm.
    Last I saw, Clippy was hustling as a toilet paper holder in Cupertino.

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