{"id":140,"date":"2007-04-10T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cecsearch.com\/WordPress\/2007\/04\/10\/i-get-by-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T03:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T07:59:47","slug":"i-get-by-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/10\/i-get-by-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"I get by with a little help from my friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I discovered something that I had to fix. Not long ago I created a PDF of a popular series of posts<\/a><\/b> that I had done here. Pat Lefler<\/a><\/b> (who has a very good blog called "Intrepid ideas…and other musings<\/a><\/b>") had made the suggestion that I make the series "10 Ways to Make Recruiters Love You<\/a><\/b>" into a PDF so that people could download it and use it as an offline resource. To be honest, I hadn’t considered that it might be good enough for people to refer to on a regular basis. I would have understood if it was titled "10 Ways to Make Love to Recruiters<\/b>"… but that would have to be posted on another site perhaps with a domain suffix of XXX <\/b>and would have had BIG<\/font><\/b> coverage by Dave Mendoza<\/a><\/b> on his blog Six Degrees from Dave<\/a><\/b>, oh well I digress.<\/p>\n

Having judged the suggestion worthwhile, I went about looking for a suitable method of turning the document into a PDF. What I found was an online PDF document translator that worked with tons of different formats. So I spent about an hour working on the production of the PDF using the free online resource at PDFOnline<\/a><\/b>. I posted the PDF as a gift to my readers<\/a><\/b> and, judging by the links to it from other sites including Shally Steckerl<\/a> of Job Machine<\/a> <\/b>on his CyberSleuthing blog<\/a><\/b>, it was pretty popular.<\/p>\n

However, it wasn’t until last week that I discovered that the online PDF creator didn’t preserve the hyperlinks in my article. I was sorely disappointed by that. I also had noticed that one of my pals, Kent Blumberg<\/a><\/b>, had posted on his blog about a PDF tool<\/a><\/b> that he uses, easyPDF Printer 4.3<\/b> from BCL Technologies<\/a> <\/b>[while not free, very reasonable at around $15], preserves the links in documents when it creates the PDF. So I thought to myself, this is the solution. On Thursday [I think it was Thursday, busy days have a habit of running together] I went to the site to download and purchase easyPDF Printer<\/b>, and to my utter disappointment, discovered that they don’t yet support Windows Vista<\/b> [another reason to just say no to Vista<\/a><\/b>]. Now I have a problem that I dearly want to fix, but don’t have the ability to do it. So, I call on my friend Kent and ask a favor of him. I didn’t expect how wonderfully he would reply. I asked Kent if he would make a quick run through of my original document turning it into a PDF using his copy of easyPDF Printer <\/b>so that I could have active hyperlinks in it and repost it. Kent said that he would be glad to and told me he could get it done by the weekend. I responded that would be great. <\/p>\n

Well, Kent got it done much faster than that. In fact he built a TOC with active links, reformatted it for better flow, and made it look like a Million bucks [well much better than I had originally done it anyway, we have to consider the source material. \ud83d\ude09 ] So I’m going to make a permanent link to the document so that people can get to it very easily. I also want to express my deepest gratitude for Kent’s help<\/b>. Kent knows something about helping others as it is a foundation of great leadership. Read Kent’s blog – Kent Blumberg – Leadership, strategy, and performance<\/a><\/b> and find out more about his leadership style and thoughts. <\/p>\n

Finally, I would like to refer my friend the Recruiting Animal<\/a><\/b>, author of The Recruiting Animal blog<\/a><\/b>, RecruitingBloggers<\/a><\/b>, and Recruiting Pundits<\/strong><\/a> to the last sentence in my opening paragraph. I think that qualifies as humor Animal… now where is your "monetization"? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Link to 10 Ways to Make Recruiters Love You PDF<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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