Matthew R. Bisson

Should I Send People Word Documents?

In a word… NO.

Microsoft Word produces typographically ugly documents, and the Office 365 suite consumes many gigabytes of space on your disk, but it’s your choice to use this tool if you like. Just please, please export it to something that works on any platform, like a PDF file.

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Great Recruiters, Unite!

The following transmission is directed toward the (job) recruiting community everywhere. It’s time to get together and improve the way employees and employers connect with each other. The current method of matching software engineering candidates with software engineering jobs is completely broken. With so many good people out there looking for work, and so many good companies out there looking for good people, you’d think this would be no problem — especially in an age of so much technology centered around communication. If you have landed here, that’s a good start. Well, here is what I think are some of the roadblocks in this fundamentally flawed process.

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