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posted by martyb on Monday October 10 2016, @08:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-talks-on-the-golf-course,-right? dept.

LinkedIn has introduced a feature that could make it easier for users to look for a better job discreetly:

LinkedIn has removed an obstacle preventing some members from using the professional social network from finding their next job: The possibility of their current boss finding out. On Thursday, the company released its Open Candidates feature which now lets members privately notify recruiters that they're open for opportunities without exposing themselves to their current company.

[...] In research conducted in the past year, LinkedIn claimed that 77 percent of professional workers are open to their next opportunity. However, with social media, the fear has been that any signal made on a profile could get back to an employer, which is why the Open Candidates feature lets anyone operate stealthily. It's perfect for those who are open to change, but aren't precisely set on making a move ... yet. "This is a signal to recruiters that you want to hear from them," explained Eric Owski, LinkedIn's head of talent brand products. [...] So far, this feature has been tested in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia. Owski said that 40,000 people per day have opted-in for this experience, with close to 1 million candidates total, out of the 450 million on the social network.


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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.

How to Land a Dream Job With Microsoft Resume Assistant

Step 1: Lie.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @08:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @08:14AM (#412347)

    Gotta have a job to get a job. Got no job? Die in the gutter. Do not collect unemployment. Do not collect welfare. Just fucking Die. Die, die, die.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @08:53AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @08:53AM (#412357)

      AC has requested a connection to you, AC! Can you confirm that you know AC? All information with be totally confidential, except that we will share it with everyone, and we have recently been bought out by Microsoft, and they are currently forcing all our employees to submit fecal samples, for what purpose they refuse to say. But it would be really cool if you joined our network, fecal sample or no, because we are a forward-looking group of visionary dreamers and people desperate to get out of this corporation without signaling our intention. Help!!!!! Discrete texts are best, they cannot track those, yet. The mostly come out at night, mostly.

    • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Monday October 10 2016, @09:45AM

      by GungnirSniper (1671) on Monday October 10 2016, @09:45AM (#412361) Journal

      It happened to me. Recruiters are like daters who see someone else wants another and subconsciously use that other person's judgement to supplement their own.

      The single biggest thing Linked needed from my view was to disable the Follow-by-default setting for any company you applied to. Nothing says "I hate this place" more than suddenly following all of your employer's competitors.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @08:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @08:48AM (#412354)

    even to this day I mean why not?

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @09:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @09:05AM (#412360)

      I enjoy licking my own penis but I don't do it regularly because my semen tastes so bland.

      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @01:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @01:16PM (#412422)

        You know there are all-natural organic non-homeopathic homopathogens for that, right? Mixed with a sedative and you might get lucky with yourself.

  • (Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Monday October 10 2016, @11:00AM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Monday October 10 2016, @11:00AM (#412371)

    When has -anything- -ever- stopped or even slowed down recruiters from spamming everyone on LinkedIn?!? Who would ever have to signal to a recruiter that you -wanted- their spam!? I don't get it.

    --
    (E-mail me if you want a pizza roll!)
    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday October 10 2016, @04:11PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Monday October 10 2016, @04:11PM (#412505)

      If you're not in high-demand fields like IT and engineering, the begging and pleading goes the other direction, that's why.

      --
      The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @02:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @02:42PM (#412464)

    How do you know Hillary?

      Colleague
      Classmate
      We've done buiness together
      Friend
      Other
    • I don't know Hillary

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