June 7, 2006

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Business yammerings

From the job postings group:

Sr. Web Developer - "Open Source Guru"
For consideration please send resume in Word format.


Posted by dbs at June 7, 2006 8:58 AM

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Ah, irony, how you pop up in the oddest places.

Posted by: Lisa [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 7, 2006 10:17 AM

That's just hilarious.

Posted by: Nabil [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 7, 2006 10:55 AM

Hee hee.

That said, the xmlresume open source Java/xsrc project generates RTF as one of its default targets, and I suspect most recruiters can't really tell the difference between that and a Word-generated document.

Posted by: Nicholas Shectman at June 7, 2006 11:10 AM

>xsrc

xslt, even.

Posted by: Nicholas Shectman at June 7, 2006 11:11 AM

they want to make sure they get a non-bigoted opensource guru? :)

Posted by: coraline at June 7, 2006 12:12 PM

Some people, they are not so much with the getting it.

Posted by: Richard Threadgill at June 7, 2006 12:37 PM

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