I'm sure this has been brought up before, I think the free software community (us) needs to do something about recruiters who *insist* on applicants submitting resumes and what-not in Microsoft Word format.
I've been sending back a polite message saying that I simply do not use Microsoft software and direct them to http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- I'm convinced this has directly led to lazy recruiters simply putting me in the 'too hard' basket and moving on to the next candidate. It's completely unreasonable for such companies to dictate to the people who they depend on for their mere existence (the technical talent) and discriminate against those who don't happen to use their (poor) choice of internal documentation. I'm thinking of something like a public blacklist of recruitment agencies that SLUGers can boycott. I'd like to hear suggestions or discussion on what we can do about this increasingly frequent annoyance. Getting such an activity mentioned in a Newspaper would also be of great benefit in making these agencies think twice. Thoughts? r. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
