[LRUG] Expat thinking of coming home

[Paul Nelson]

Sorry if this has been suggested before and rejected, but I would be happy
to setup and host a jobs board, either we are badly short of ruby
developers in london, or the agencies have a choke-hold on the
cv's...doesn't make sense to me at all..
On 17 Sep 2012 10:11, "Chris Mear" <chrismear at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 Sep 2012, at 10:06, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:47 AM, David Roberts
> > <droberts at excelitresource.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a number of roles available that I can discuss with you. I have
> been focussing to Ruby for some time now. Please can you send me your CV in
> Word and I will call to go over these in more detail.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, why is it important that the CV is presented
> > using one particular software package?  Anything wrong with plain old
> > text?
>
> From my conversations with recruiters, the reason Word format is asked for
> is because it's editable (as opposed to something less easily editable,
> such as PDF). This is so they can remove your contact details and add their
> own header, thus making sure any communication goes through them.
>
> So I'm sure plain text would be fine.
>
> Chris
>
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