Peter Parry submitted this idea :
Indeed. I have a HP4000 with network card and duplexer. It cost me £20 ten years ago and is still on the cartridge it came with. Better (cheaper) to see if an office is disposing of its old printers, rather than going to one of the 'refurbed' suppliers. All they do is a quick test print on them, then add 90% to the price.
Speak for yourself.
It was very easy to spot the people whose smeared and smudged inkjet CV's came through the post, compared with those who had taken teh trouble to get to a decent crisp laserjet.
And you can get very good but old laserjets very cheap these days.
I don't think I'd ever be inclined to employ someone who couldn't operate an inkjet printer properly.
Regards,
TBH if I'm hiring, the quality of their home printer or whether they've just used the one in the office has very little to do with what I want them to do.
Why are people printing out CVs on home printers?
CVs aside if I want a photo printed would go to Boots(WHY) and let them worry about capital costs, cost of consumables, clogged nozzles, all the rest. (YMMV)
As cheap as the inkjet allready on my desk?
Over 1000 sheets, cheaper.
I suspect that depends on how many applications you have to sort through to get a "short list" of 50...
Presentation is all for that first impression. If some one hasn't put the tiny amount of effort in to make the best first impression what does it say about their overall attitude?
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher saying something like:
There's nearly always a generic driver in Windows that works to provide basic functionality, no matter what printer I've used. Case in point, my latest HP - I couldn't be doing with all that system-clogging crap HP wanted to put on, so it's running happily on a Windows driver and prints anything I throw at it.
I can't remember the last time I actually got a paper CV through the post. I've had a couple as Word documents with embedded macro viruses though.
In message , Tim Lamb writes
economies of scale, innit
I need a dot matrix for printing labels, yes they are no longer cheap
The same is happening with IDE hard drives I noticed last week - getting more expensive that the equivalent SATA ones
If you want cheap, I just bought a Canon i2600 for £29.99 +
It does what's required of it, consumables are reasonable
They're also essential for multipart forms, something that lasers and inkjets are useless for, so they still have a place but it's in volume commercial printing.
FWIW my own business has used Xerox solid ink printers for years. The print quality is much better than laser and the running costs are a lot lower.
I work in a field where almost all recruitment is done through agencies. So my CV is carefully edited, distributed by email, then printed out on any old s*it in the pondlife's office. 8-( I always take a decent copy with me when I go for the interview.
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That's helpful in ruling out candidates :-) Whether or not a virus was present.
I wouldn't employ anyone who used Word, myself, far less someone who didn't know enough to send a pdf.
In message , geoff writes
Cost is secondary to standby reliability. The use will probably not exceed 3 copies once per week!
Amazon are sending me an HP laserjet p1006 shortly.
From the interest shown, should I expect a raft of reasons why this is a bum decision?
regards
How kind of them!
That (or a similar product from the same or a different company) would have been my choice as well.
Whether you love Word or hate it, in the real world isn't that an awfully broad and haphazard method of screening applicants...?!
David
And if an agency is involved, well, many of them insist on Word format. (Won't even accept RTF in many cases. Nor any other format whatsoever.)
This is obviously because they copy and paste the information into their standard CV format - leaving out anything that could cut them out of the loop and lose their fees.
Considerably more scientific (and probably useful) than graphology or astrology (both of which I have seen used by local government personnel responsible for recruitment).
Obviously someone sending a CV in BBC "View" format says something about the sender.
Owain
Why? Surely 90%+ of all businesses use Word (blinking Bill gets everywhere), and while Open Office (for instance)can open DOC files I don't think Word can open ODF files. So it would seem to make sense to send any correspondence to companies as a DOC file.
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