Comments on: Resume Tips: No Pictures, Please and No PDFs http://www.career-line.com/resume-advice/resume-tips-no-pictures-please-and-no-pdfs/ News and tools for your $100K+ job search Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:52:55 -0800 hourly 1 By: inked http://www.career-line.com/resume-advice/resume-tips-no-pictures-please-and-no-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 inked Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:42:41 +0000 http://www.career-line.com/?p=1389#comment-1344 The irony here is that HR's mission is (or is supposed to be) to look for the best candidates for the company - the ones who, "think outside the box." Yet, HR themselves... well, you had better standardize yourself so that the weak-minded fools doing the sorting can have an easy time of it. Think of all the folks who wouldn't get hired (and help the company succeed) because their 8.5x11 resume or MS Word resume didn't pass through the right filters... even someone like Bill Gates wouldn't get hired because of a conspicuous lack of a degree. Hey, HR folks: think outside your box. The irony here is that HR’s mission is (or is supposed to be) to look for the best candidates for the company – the ones who, “think outside the box.” Yet, HR themselves… well, you had better standardize yourself so that the weak-minded fools doing the sorting can have an easy time of it.

Think of all the folks who wouldn’t get hired (and help the company succeed) because their 8.5×11 resume or MS Word resume didn’t pass through the right filters… even someone like Bill Gates wouldn’t get hired because of a conspicuous lack of a degree.

Hey, HR folks: think outside your box.

]]> By: John Hazard http://www.career-line.com/resume-advice/resume-tips-no-pictures-please-and-no-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-953 John Hazard Thu, 28 May 2009 19:24:13 +0000 http://www.career-line.com/?p=1389#comment-953 I hear you. Who doesn't have Adobe reader and who can't download it for free, if needed? But this is less about who can't open it, then who won't open it. Remember you're not sending your resume to fellow legal professionals; you're sending it to recruiters who must sift through hundreds of resumes every day. If they have to use another program to open your resume than they use for every other resume, they might just choose to move on. The advice from recruiters, career coaches and resume writers is "Don't risk it, use the standard - Microsoft Word." Thanks for reading and thanks for writing. We need more heated comments. I hear you. Who doesn’t have Adobe reader and who can’t download it for free, if needed? But this is less about who can’t open it, then who won’t open it. Remember you’re not sending your resume to fellow legal professionals; you’re sending it to recruiters who must sift through hundreds of resumes every day. If they have to use another program to open your resume than they use for every other resume, they might just choose to move on. The advice from recruiters, career coaches and resume writers is
“Don’t risk it, use the standard – Microsoft Word.”

Thanks for reading and thanks for writing. We need more heated comments.

]]> By: anon http://www.career-line.com/resume-advice/resume-tips-no-pictures-please-and-no-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-943 anon Thu, 28 May 2009 19:12:39 +0000 http://www.career-line.com/?p=1389#comment-943 What about meta-data and all the annoying red marks on word docs? PDFs get rid of all that. Attorneys send their docs to courts and to each other in PDFs, why not resumes and cover letters? What legal professional can't read PDFs anyway? Are people really that technologically bankrupt? What about meta-data and all the annoying red marks on word docs? PDFs get rid of all that. Attorneys send their docs to courts and to each other in PDFs, why not resumes and cover letters?

What legal professional can’t read PDFs anyway? Are people really that technologically bankrupt?

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