[FSF] Why I'm rejecting your email attachment: for freedom and the good of the web!

[Richard Pieri]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> Discretion is out the window.  I've been in David's situation too.  I
> sent my resume as HTML, and was told by many people, "sorry, you need
> to resend this as an MS-Word doc."
> 
> Apparently HTML is too hard to deal with.  And *that's* plain text.
> PDF is right out.

It isn't that HTML is hard to deal with.  It's that the keyword databases that placement agencies and recruiters use (read: Bullhorn) don't grok HTML or PDF.  In other words, they could bung in your PDF or HTML resume but you'd never, ever show up in their internal search results, and if you never show up then you'll never get called for jobs.

--Rich P.