A Suggestion for the Microsoft Careers Site

I was on the Microsoft Technical Recruiting Chat last night (I’m not really looking, just snooping around), when I remembered a comment made by either Zoë or Gretchen (I can’t remember who, or even find it) about making sure that your resume looked good in plain text when submitting it via their site.  They don’t take resumes in Word format (or even HTML), and you can either paste vanilla text into a free form input box, or use the resume builder.  They mentioned that as an applicant, you should make sure the plain text version of your resume is easy to read, and not just a Word doc saved as text (which would be very hard on the eyes).   At the time I read that, I thought it was a good tidbit, so I filed it away for future reference.  During the chat something clicked, and I remembered that Microsoft had released an Office Solution Accelerator for Recruiting, which includes a nice resume builder section.  The resume builder includes an InfoPath Resume Form (which uses the HR-XML schema for resumes), and a complementing resume submittal web service.  Shouldn’t Microsoft recruiting IT department do a little dogfooding, and be using this?  It is definitely better than submitting a text version of a resume, and trying to shred the document.  Plus, since it is an XML document, they could easily apply an XSL (either XSLT to WordML or XSL-FO to PDF) and transform the resume into an easy to read format for the recruiters.  I know that everyone does not have InfoPath (but it is an excellent tool), so they would have to create an alternate means to creating an XML version of the resume (can we say open source project?), and still maintain the good old text box input method for the less technical folks applying to Microsoft.  It sounds to me like there would be a decent return on investment for this type of thing, with Microsoft hiring some 7000 people this year.