Pulaski

I think that's how he prepared his "clear and concise" résumé.

username.exe

That covers 'concise', not sure about 'clear'.

cheradenine

Sorry to hear that Guindalf hope something comes your way soon.

I noticed in another thread that ageism was being discussed (in a joking manner) and just thought I would add here, that at times I have considered getting into a new industry.

I saw a few positions for apprenticeships and thought it would be a good opportunity. with my experience in engineering, my skills would transfer over well (at least in my opinion).but at 30 I guess I may be too old to be considered for an apprenticeship.

Recent update on my position, because no doubt some of you are laying awake at night thinking 'damn I wonder how cheradenine is getting on in his job hunt?'
I had a resume submitted to a company for about a week now, it's one of those online submissions that allows you to tinker with your resume if you wish too. After much editing and inserting of keywords I finally got an email asking if I was interested in an interview so I am happy about that.

I also had a face to face interview yesterday, not sure how well it went. I feel some parts went right and others not so well, enough that I was led in bed last night stewing over it so much, that I got up and went to the gym eventually to run myself to exhaustion.

ah well fingers crossed, hopefully I get it and I will be able to send that 'they took our jobs!' clip from south park to my American friends.

dj6372

Hence the quote at the bottom of my submission!!

The formatting all went to hell!!

cheradenine

I find that happens too. hitting enter a couple of times when paragraphing seems to fix it.

dj6372

Nope, tried all I can think of, its my work PC, even the IT Tech (spotty oik) couldn't understand the issue!

I blame the US keyboard lol, was it so difficult to put the @ in the same place?

That should have been in the pet peeves sorry

Steerpike

The (destruction of) formatting in the 'reply' window has been an issue on BE for some time, and I have yet to fully discern a pattern. It happened to me for a while, then stopped. I use a mixture of IE11, Edge, and Firefox and the problem seems unrelated to browser type (although at times I've seen it happen with one but not the other; just never a solid pattern). For whatever reason, it's stopped affecting me now and I thought it was fixed but clearly not.

But remember that after every post, you can edit for a period of time so the first thing you should always do after posting is review your post and quickly edit it if you see a problem.

cheradenine

could it be an OS thing? I got windows 10 then reverted back to 8.1 and the formatting started being funny.

Steerpike

Nope; I primarily use just one laptop, windows 10, and saw the problem and then saw it disappear. Since it affects multiple browsers, and is intermittent, I suspect the issue relates to however the 'editor' functionality is deployed to the browser. I've noticed, recently, that the editor has become more 'wysiwyg'; in the past, when you highlighted a word and hit the 'B' (bold) icon, it would surround the word with 'tags' something like {b} ... {/b} (can't use the actual square brackets so using curly braces in this example). But now, when I hit the 'B' icon, the text actually shows up as bold text. This looks to me like a local (browser / client side) action, and thus, is being performed on my machine by some mini-editor. It looks like this editor is getting messed up somehow. I wish there was a way to force the editor back to the 'dumb' mode, where tags were used and visible, rather than attempting to show wysiwyg.

In fact, I just saw the icon top right of the editor box that says 'Switch Editor Mode' ... I wonder if that makes any difference. Try (if you are running into this issue) toggling the 'editor mode' using this button.

retzie

My Profile > Settings & Options > Edit Options > Miscellaneous Options > Message Editor Interface > Standard Editor - Extra Formatting Controls

scrubbedexpat099

People still use IE?

sir_eccles

Some people are forced to. I recently got an email from IT at work promising they would upgrade us from ie8 as soon as they finished testing ie11.

dj6372

I use Chrome or Edge at home, they are fine. Work uses IE, I just realised my Base unit was replaced, and that is when my formatting went to poop!

I do check my posts, but when I edit the formatting looks fine, line spacing etc.

I hit save and gawd only knows what happens!

I'm a partial geek and can generally sort issues,but this one continues to annoy!!

username.exe

Until recently we were such on IE9, I was stunned at how many websites (including Google properties) did not support that version. I don't know how you are coping!

kins

Yeah - try working for a financial services company that still stores all its data in a 1970s mainframe. IE seemed relatively modern to us when I was there