If you’re like me and you tend to be a “serial joiner”, then you’ve probably got accounts on most social networking sites, and – I’m guessing – you’ve uploaded your carefully chosen avatar to each one, too. Or, you’re smart and you use Gravatar, which allows you to upload your avatar once, where it gets [...]

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Most recruiters and job sites will insist on having CVs sent to them in Word format, so I have to export my document as a .doc file. And there’s the problem: a document that looks fine in Google Docs can be all over the place when it’s saved as Word document. Inconsistent tab- and line-spacing; random hieroglyphic characters in place of bullet points; disobedient font sizing are just some of the problems I’ve encountered.

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Just because Google has seemingly infinite resources, it doesn’t make them immune from the kind of challenges that face IT departments in companies, large and small, all over the world.

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