Quick monster.com question.

Soodmeg

Soodmeg

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I am trying to upload my updated resume to monster.com and it keeps giving me this error.

"My Monster Notice.

You are uploading a application/download type file!"



What the hell does this mean? I have looked all over the site for help but no go.

My resume is a Word doc and its only 51kb when the cap is 500.

I like to think of myself as not being computer illiterate but I really hate when people program really vauge error message.



 
Are you using a version of Word you downloaded off the internet? I have had a problem with a couple of my students submitting XML docs they said they saved in Word. The only consistency between them is they all said they downloaded their versions.
 
[quote name='Soodmeg']I am trying to upload my updated resume to monster.com and it keeps giving me this error.

"My Monster Notice.

You are uploading a application/download type file!"



What the hell does this mean? I have looked all over the site for help but no go.

My resume is a Word doc and its only 51kb when the cap is 500.

I like to think of myself as not being computer illiterate but I really hate when people program really vauge error message.



[/quote]

I got the same thing and it was quite annoying.
I solved it by saving it as a docx (Word 2007) file.
 
Try uploading it as a different file format like Zoo did.

I'm guessing the error message is supposed to read "You are uploading a non-supported application/download type file!".
 
If you have Word 2007, make sure you have all of the updates installed. One of them provides some important additions to the choices for save formats. The first release of Word 2007 was a bit off in generating proper DOC files when asked.

If you have an earlier version of Word, make sure you install the file format compatibility update for handling DOCX.

Test the file by trying to load it into Wordpad. It has very limited support for newer forms of the DOC model, so if there is a lot of extraneous garbage in there that will choke Monster.com, this might reveal it.

You can also try loading and saving a separate version in OpenOffice. (Free download.) Since they had to reverse engineer Microsoft's proprietary DOC format, a lot of the secret sauce isn't in their version and the compatibility can be better with stuff that doesn't understand everything correctly.

Beyond that, I cannot offer much more without more info. My resume uploads generally just worked.
 
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