Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract? To : comp.programming From : Chris Sonnack Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 11:12 pm Richard Heathfield writes: >> So you do what I've done in the past. Put your URL under your email >> address on your submitted resume. Around here, we do NOT accept HTML >> resumes. Electronically, Word docs or PDF docs are accepted, > > Accepting Word docs and PDF docs is fair enough - you can accept what > you like, obviously - but it seems strange that you should reject HTML > resumes. Some of it, I'm sure, is a general corporate conservativeness. The internet was a "new fangled thang" until fairly recently. (You can get away with that when the company is 100+ years old and had 20 billion USD in sales last year. :-) And some of it probably is, "Hey, show me you can step up." I wore a tie to the interviews I had last year as one way to show I could step up, but I doubt *anyone* expected they'd ever see me that way again. It's just a sign of respect and willingness. > It seems to me that you are potentially excluding some very skilled > applicants, who happen neither to possess nor to desire the software > required for creating Word or PDF files. Or is that your intent? I wouldn't say the intent is as stated, but with the authoring tools available today, just making a website is pretty meaningless. *IF* the position were for an web author, that would be very different kettle of fish, but as a general policy, few managers/supervisors will bother exploring an external webpage (which may well be blocked by the ever vigilant firewall). And frankly, I don't entirely disagree with the view that "the web" is a toy thing, not really real. I'm sure that will change in time (as it did with fax and then email), but when you consider that pornography is the biggest slice of "the web" and lots of kooks and hate mongers make up another slice, you can perhaps understand why a conservative, company might treat it with some contempt (I know I often do). >> but to really impress, printed-on-nice-paper resumes are a win. > > Yes, if they're /nicely/ printed on nice paper. :-) One hopes! -- |_ CJSonnack _____________| How's my programming? | |_ http://www.Sonnack.com/ ___________________| Call: 1-800-DEV-NULL | |_____________________________________________|_______________________| .