On 09/10/2007, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
samwise wrote:
For greatest compatibility, I would suggest that RTF might be a good compromise for a CV. It's a fairly simple format, [...]
Is that the RTF used by Wordpad, the RFT used by Word, or the RTF used by Outlook?
I had to do some (trivial) work with RTF once, and downloaded the spec and printed it out without looking at the size of the file (fool!). After the printer had worked its way through a ream of paper, I realised my mistake...
Ahh, now noone mentioned printing as a requirement. ;)
Another alternative is basic HTML, but that is also subject to mis-interpretation, not to mention infection. That said - yes, it's a compromise. In this day and age I doubt there is a perfect solution - even a text file has different line breaks across *nix, Macs and Windows ... !
I'm sure there are more tightly specified formats but they would probably require the installation of a reader application, which is out of the comfort zone for the HR secretary who's been given an order to reduce the candidates by 20% ... ;)
Peter.