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notesjones · Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Location: Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA

OK, I'm putting together my resume to send to a Korean school director, but most of advice I read indicates they are used to getting a Microsoft Word document. I have an Apple iBook, and no WORD. Should I simply layout my resume in Photoshop and save it as a JPEG so they could open it with a photo viewing program, or should I bite the bullet and buy WORD? Would a resume created in Apple's standard writing program, AppleWorks, be just as good, or would a director not be able to open it?

--Stephen

The evil penguin · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:48 am Post subject:

Don't buy word. I have a Mac and have grown to love the thing..... but yeah, compatability with other 'puters can sometimes be a problem..

But in regards to your question.... just download a free trial version of word for mac.
You'll only have it for a couple of weeks but this will give u time to solve resume problems...

turtlepi1 · Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Well Koreans are GREAT at looking at pics but I wouldn't confuse them.
Save the file as an RTF then look at it on an IBM computer.

The POINT of rtf is to pass files between systems....of course IBM and APPLE rtf is not always consistent, hence my suggestion to check it before sending it.

Unless of course you live in Bizarro world and don't know anyone with an IBM/MS-Word. Smile

By the way with pages can't you just EXPORT ---.doc(or WORD).
By the way you should post this in the technology forum not here.
Good luck with the job search.

notesjones · Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Location: Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA

Hey, thanks for the advice. I'll download the trial version and get my WORD on! Very Happy

--S

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

(1) it should go in the Technology forum

(2) duh! PDF, man, PDF. your Mac is built around PDFs and you can make them easy. DO NOT USE A JPEG.

(3) if you insist on Word, download one of the million freeware programs that can save as Word. OpenOffice(.org?) is a clone of the MS Office and I'm sure there's a mac version. Just look around download.com or tucows.com. There are probably smaller programs with faster downloads that are word processing only without the other stuff, but i don't know the names.

(4) forget all that, go with a PDF!