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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: 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.