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Microsoft is integrating LinkedIn with Word:
Writing and updating your résumé is a task that few of us enjoy. Microsoft is hoping to make it a little less painful with a new feature coming to Word called Resume Assistant.
Resume Assistant will detect that you're writing a résumé and offer insights and suggestions culled from LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a vast repository of both résumés and job openings and lets you see how other people describe their skillsets and which skills employers are looking for.
The feature will also show job openings that are suitable for your résumé directly within Word, putting résumé writers directly in contact with recruiters.
The feature is now available to a select few Office 365 subscribers:
Resume Assistant is available today to Office 365 subscribers as part of the Insiders program and those subscribers must have the latest version of Word on Windows. It will be generally available to Office 365/Microsoft 365 subscribers "in the coming months." Resume Assistant will be available in all Office 365 commercial and consumer plans, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed.
Error: No jobs were found to be suitable based on your résumé. You are overqualified and too old.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:38PM (4 children)
I am more upset that if I have a winning resume, it somehow will be used without attribution or credit given to me when parts of it are reused for people I'd rather see fired.
not that I put something good on linked in -- thats just truthful filler with some important things left out -- but when i signed up there on 2009 or 2010, it wasn't to give microsoft anything at all. and its too late to do anything about it
this social network stuff is getting out of hand--you must participate in many of these networks, even if you don't (willingly or not) participate in all of them.
and then at work they have yammer and crap like that? my god I avoid that sort of thing outside of work
and with this all tied together, its only a matter of time before MS helps you write the resume and informs HR that you are looking before you even autosaved it into their cloud which will allow for paying customers, like your HR department, to review your drafts...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:49PM (3 children)
Exactly. This is just going to make the vetting process even more competitive. Back when Monster was the only game in town, the service was a godsend, but eventually competitors popped up and offered shit like "1-click apply to all jobs on page" to spam hiring managers' inboxes like never before.
And of course it opens the door for misrepresentation, as any drooling retard would then appear to be a mega-genius even if what's written on the resume is factually correct.
Totally agreed about that last part. I honestly do like the occasional use of Skype at work because it hides certain things from nosey gossips, but all damn day I'm looking at things that bloop and bleep and spectra and waveforms -- so when I get home, tech and code are the last goddamn things I want to see. I turn the ringer on my phone off, set it in the corner to be forgotten, and read about politics and shitpost on Soylentnews until bedtime. Phone shit is unremarkable, woop-dee-goddamn-doo its a smaller version of what desktops have been doing for the past 50 years. So fucking what. Even Arduino gets old fast, even when making BLE+thermocouple+App thingies like the prototype I'm making for a customer now.
I'm glad some shit-mouthed hiring manager has never asked me about how "passionate I am" about technology. I'd take his shiny Chinese-made crap and shove it right up his ass.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:16PM (2 children)
And we can all agree you do that superbly, but must you read about politics as well?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:57PM (1 child)
I am an ex-military patriot and come from a family with a shitton of military experience, both enlisted and officer, and later work as history teachers. As depressing as politics was before Trump was elected, I could not avoid it just as the sadomasochist in the above article could not avoid injecting himself with the venom of the world's most poisonous snakes.
Even if you are a commie Trump-hater, you must admit that Trump's election has brought a newfound excitement to politics no matter which way you swing. Howard Dean 2024 (but Trump 2020)!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday November 12 2017, @12:34AM
Seems like porn no longer provide enough to get you excited... well, its natural, the age will do it to yea, no need to punish others for your frustration
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford