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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the Clippy-for-jobs dept.

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.

How to Land a Dream Job With Microsoft Resume Assistant

Step 1: Lie.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:52PM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:52PM (#595664) Homepage

    Microsoft Office native on the desktop stomps the living fuck out of all alternatives. I rarely commend Microsoft, but ya gotta admit, the Office suite is a damn-fine product.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by acid andy on Saturday November 11 2017, @06:18PM

    by acid andy (1683) on Saturday November 11 2017, @06:18PM (#595673) Homepage Journal

    Twas good until the advent of the fucking ribbon.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:18PM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:18PM (#595691) Journal

    There was a time when this was true, and Microsoft made more money selling Office than Windows.

    Sadly they've made a point of crapping on standards and portability to the point where I swore it off 10 years ago.
    Back then I needed it to make book length documents of individual chapters combined into a master document.

    Today I do that all with LibreOffice. Works perfectly, sometimes more logically than did Office. Still has some features that need google searches to figure out how they really work, but the three Master Document structured manuals I'm working on now work perfectly, and they even export perfectly to Office captives in other organizations.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:47PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:47PM (#595753) Journal

    Except - Office can't even open up old versions of Office documents. And, it sure as hell can't save them again in the old versions.

    Admit it - MS Office was all about closing down the various competitors, it never was about creating a better product.