[Lnc-business] Biased Resumes

[Alicia Mattson]

PC culture has gotten more ridiculous than I even realized if asking for a
PDF is "biased" now.  :-)

The PDF format was my call.  Because word processors use scripting
languages for fancy functionality, I'm more likely to pick up malware by
accepting Word docs than PDFs.  There are many choices for free software
that creates a PDF from any software with a Print feature, and there are
free online services to convert, so most people are readily able to
generate PDFs.  When I get the file in Word or some other format, then I
have to spend the time to convert it to PDF so I can give the LNC a PDF
bundle, so it saves me time if the files are already provided in PDF.  If
the files sent to me are created with software that I don't use, then I
have to spend time to either go back to the person and ask for something
else that I can work with.

If someone wants to apply but really has no means to generate a PDF, just
tell them to email their application to me at secretary at lp.org instead.  If
they use a word processor that I don't use, then we're at a stalemate.

-Alicia








On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Daniel Hayes <danielehayes at icloud.com>
wrote:

> So is there a reason we are only accepting resumes for the Credentials
> Committee in PDF? Lots of people have resumes saved in doc files.   I
> pointed out to the person with the dilemma that there are PDF converters
> online if their current platform didnt have the ability on it to do the
> conversion..
> That all said, is there a reason for that limitation?
>
>
>
>
>
> Daniel Hayes
> LNC At Large Member.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> _______________________________________________
> Lnc-business mailing list
> Lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://hq.lp.org/pipermail/lnc-business/attachments/20170718/1250b0fb/attachment-0002.html>