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anamax on Sept 26, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ten Tips For A Slightly Less Awful Resume

> Resumes are about presentation. HTML, coupled with CSS, is a valuable way to demonstrate ability to present plain text.

What happens when your resume is processed/displayed by something that knows nothing about html?

If I have to open a browser to read your "plain text"....

indie01 on Sept 26, 2007 [–]

>>'If I have to open a browser to read your "plain text"....'

If you are able to open a browser to read both plain text (source code) and a rendered page with some text, you can be pretty sure that the person who wrote the code knows what he or she is doing with both.

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