If you’re in my situation — that is, looking for work — make sure that you read Robert Scoble’s article titled So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck. In the article, he provides two lists:
Scoble makes a very important point in his “Don’t” list that I’m going to restate because a lot of people make this mistake: Don’t send your resume in .docx format!
The .docx format is the default file format for Word 2007, and prior versions of Word can’t read it unless they have the add-in that can import those files. Since the last really useful new feature in Word — the red lines beneath suspected misspellings and green lines beneath suspected grammatical errors — appeared in Word a couple of versions ago, most people don’t feel the need to keep up with the absolute latest version. If you send out your resume in .docx format, there’s a good chance that the people receiving it can’t read it. If you use Word 2007 to write your resume, use “Save As…” to create the version that you’ll send out and save it as a “Word 97-2003” document, a.k.a. a .doc file.
Here’s a quick guide to the differences between the file icons:
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I'm surprised Scoble just didn't say "don't send it in word format! PDF it!"
Exactly -- PDF that thing. Word docs look different on Macs vs. PCs, some people only open them in a simple Text Editor and if they are very enterprising, can view your keystrokes and changes in Word.
Always PDF.
Too late.
I was also surprised that you did recommend to send resume in word format.
PDF is just so much easier.