Hi
Check 6:
Yeah with the latest version you will be OK and will be able to open everything - the problem comes when they release the next version and you keep your current version.....yet the person sending you the CV has upgraded - the new file format he has written cant then cant be read by your older s/w. Glad to know its not been a problem.
As for ZIP/RAR/ACE formats - these are compressed formats designed to reduce filesize and thus e-mail time. WinZip is shareware downloadable (read free!) - there is no need to buy it - (
www.winzip.com i think). The folks sending you CVs in these formats are just trying to save time during transfer....so they may well have sent you a CV in the format you requested - but compressed it is one of these archive - so they havent exactly ignored your request...just thought they were helping you/themselves so a large file download was unecessary......
That said there should be no need to compress a word doc - its only gonna be a few Kb anyway...
BTW - Thanks for the info....its helpful to know that its best just to e-mail it straight rather than trying to be clever and compress the file - because the target employer may not have the compression s/w required to look at it!
Its also interesting to know that those peeps who are looking to employ us really do start to evaluate us based on all that we provide...so here is another question.......
If you receive a paper CV do you like to see time & effort taken to choose good quality paper or is any old 80gms paper suitable!? (personally I have a stock of good quality conquerer purely for printing my CV /letters on...) - Im just wandering what effect such things have on you (the prospective employer).
Also....are there preferences to 'style' of layout of CV - I guess this is kinda personal but obviously there must be styles which you just go 'oh no'...and bin it...!
Cheers,
FF