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Being able to send files in an appropriate format is a communication skill, a basic skill for any employment, and .docx is almost never a...

Being able to send files in an appropriate format is a communication skill, a basic skill for any employment, and .docx is almost never appropriate. You're going to be dinged for a Word doc by some people, some of the time. You created a % chance that your job application got thrown away for something easily remedied. At least take one second to convert to a more generally-viewable PDF. Besides which, the article is talking about code. Why would anyone cut and paste code into a Word doc at all? A waste of time for everyone involved.

Posted by learnstats2 on Jun 24, 2015, 1:48 PM

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Being able to send files in an appropriate format is a communication skill, a basic skill for any employment, and .docx is almost never a...

learnstats2Jun 24, 2015, 1:48 PM

Being able to send files in an appropriate format is a communication skill, a basic skill for any employment, and .docx is almost never appropriate. You're going to be dinged for a Word doc by some people, some of the time. You created a % chance that your job application got thrown away for something easily remedied. At least take one second to convert to a more generally-viewable PDF. Besides which, the article is talking about code. Why would anyone cut and paste code into a Word doc at all? A waste of time for everyone involved.

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