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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.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:06PM (4 children)
I can't wait for this to rat me out to HR and/or my boss.
But in seriousness, people still use LinkedIn? Last time I checked -and this was years ago- it had turned into a FB clone where everyone is circle-jerking so vigorously that it makes the earth tremble. I haven't seen anything of value in LinkedIn in the last couple of years that I was still using it.
If they really want to get into the resume business, let them provide the data in a machine-readable format to hiring managers (or recruiters - if you really must allow that type of scum to exist) so that I don't have to re-enter the same thing over and over again. Why is it that after having uploaded my resume, I get to re-upload every single datapoint in your stupid and crippled Taleo website? Either you ask for my resume and use that, or you don't.
The whole HR field needs to be taken out to the back and hit repeatedly all over their bodies until within an inch of passing out, then you give them some time to recover and then we the beating continues, ad infinitum.
While I'm on my rant: remember kids, HR is there to protect the company from YOU, not anything else!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:41PM
Or worse, it 'helpfully' pre-populates a bunch of stuff with all the wrong info and now you get to go in and fix everything. I know that as a job-applicant, a system like Taleo isn't built for me, it is built for the company that gives Taleo money but I still cannot comprehend how it provides value to the (money-)paying customer if it is that bad.
I don't know ANYone who happily interacts with Taleo or other resume-harvesting websites.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RS3 on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:09PM
Unfortunately I know too much about the jobsearch world, and yes, also unfortunately, LinkedIn Kool-Aid is being lauded and preached as the top must-have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:12PM (1 child)
But seriouly, people still use Office 365?
Office was fairly intolerable as an installed package, but at least it would stay the same once installed.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:57PM
You don't understand the business model. It's not about you being productive, that's a smoke-screen. MS and many others want to make $ selling "training" - expensive classes / courses where you learn how to find the thing you used to be able to find, and now you can't even find where to start looking. Oh, but it's so much "better".
I also surmise MS wanted to be different from MacOS, which almost by definition all apps have the menu bar across the top.
I remember the first time I was forced to use MS Word with the "ribbon". It seemed like a lot more clicking and mouse navigating to get to menu stuff. They seem to have improved it somewhat, but I still don't get it from a UI perspective.