Re: thank goodness for the Optacon!
- From: Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:16:17 EDT
So do I. There are things you can do in a word processor that help with
this, but it's so easy to make a mistake and if a margin or a tab is set wrong,
it makes a bad impression and scanners won't tell you that kind of thing.
Gail
Rachel, This story certainly demonstrates the ongoing need for the optacon.
Resumes are one of the most difficult items to format correctly, and your
catching that error certainly saved you much disappointment in the job
market. I too use the optacon to check the formatting of many documents.
Lori
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From: "Rachel" <_rachel720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:rachel720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) >
To: <_optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:17 PM
Subject: thank goodness for the Optacon!
>I had someone I thought I could trust update my resume recently. I had a
> sighted person do this so that I could be sure the formatting was
> correct. Well, boy am I glad that I took out my trusty Optacon to take a
> look for myself: Two lines I'd recently added were not lined up with the
> rest of the text. How could I have been able to know this without using
> my
> Optacon? My scanner certainly wouldn't have given me such critical
> formatting information. Can you imagine how mortified I'd feel if I
> somehow found out later, after submitting it for various jobs, that my
> resume was not formatted correctly? We all know how hard it is for blind
> people to get jobs under the best of circumstances; so the very thought of
> possibly having sent out my resume as it was makes me cringe! I've
> actually gotten into the habit of checking the formatting of most
> important
> documents I produce or that I have someone help me format, just to be
> sure. I feel sorry for those who never learned to use the Optacon because
> they simply cannot have the control over their documents that Optacon
> users
> have.
>
> Just wanted to share.
> Rachel
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