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A Visor sighting in the press...

A recent San Francisco Chronicle article describes the latest trend in Silicon Valley... the Pink Slip Party.

The Sighting: One of the pictures shows a job hunter beaming his resume to a recruiter... and both are using Visors.

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How would you put your resume on a Visor in the first place?

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Am I crazy?

Am I crazy or are they holding them in the wrong position to be beaming?

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The simplest possible way would be to cut & paste a simplified, plain text version of your resume into memo pad - I did this when job hunting last year, but I never had occaision to demonstrate my geeky cleverness to prospective employers. Still, you never know who you'll run into whether you're actively looking for a job or not, and it has the potential to impress the heck out of the right sort of person.

You could also convert a web-based resume into an iSilo document, and keep it on your visor... or you could create a custom avantgo channel, and link to it from your regular online resume.

Just like the Boy Scout motto says, 'Be Prepared.'

-Andy

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Re: Am I crazy?

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Originally posted by Visor Guy2
Am I crazy or are they holding them in the wrong position to be beaming?

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What is an iSilo document? and how do I use it?

Would it be possible to use wordsmith and beam docs? This way it would be fully compatible with Microsoft Word?

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Originally posted by MitzEclipse
What is an iSilo document? and how do I use it?

Would it be possible to use wordsmith and beam docs? This way it would be fully compatible with Microsoft Word?

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iSilo is a document reader that supports the palm Doc format, as well its proprietary format which lets you download & convert web pages into a document you can sync to your visor... similar to AvantGo, but instead of a 'Channel' that is contained within the AvantGo PDBs, it creates a standalone .PDB file. That's probably not a very lucid explanation - need more coffee

It's a free download - check out http://www.isilo.com for more info. The converter program (also free) is called iSiloWeb.

If Wordsmith supports beaming documents, that ought to work too... but of course that assumes that whoever you beam your resume to also has Wordsmith on their device. iSilo has been around longer, so it's more likely someone else would have it on their PDA. Since memo pad is built into the palmOS ROM, you can't lose if you have a plain text copy stored in a memo.

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wouldn't it be better to set up a business card with all your contact info and then attach a note that has your resume in text version?

I think this would be easier to beam and easier for the receiver to find in the future considering you're now part of their contacts list and not lost in the memo pad amongst 'grandma's cookie recipe' and 'favourite books' memos.

just a thought.

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Originally posted by Hoser_in_USA
wouldn't it be better to set up a business card with all your contact info and then attach a note that has your resume in text version?

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Originally posted by Usonian


Ah, excellent idea! That hadn't even occurred to me for some reason. Does an address entry note have the same 4K size limit as a memo?

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Originally posted by Hoser_in_USA
wouldn't it be better to set up a business card with all your contact info and then attach a note that has your resume in text version?

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