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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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.
LinkedIn apologizes for trying to sneak in a new update that informed some iPhone users, without further explanation, that their "app" would begin sharing their data with nearby users.
The update prompted outrage on Twitter after cybersecurity expert Rik Ferguson received a strange alert when he opened the resume app to read a new message: "LinkedIn would like to make data available to nearby Bluetooth devices even when you're not using the app."
That gave Ferguson, vice president of research at the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, a handful of concerns, he told Vocativ. Among them: "the lack of specificity, which data, when, under what conditions, to which devices, why does it need to happen when I'm not using the app, what are the benefits to me, where is the feature announcement and explanation, why wasn't it listed in the app update details."A mobile app asking for additional permissions isn't a novel occurrence, but broad requests are often met with skepticism from privacy advocates and security researchers. Many shopping apps, for instance, leave a user's bluetooth connection turned on, allowing marketers to track you as you enter a store and linger near certain products.
Reached for comment, LinkedIn said it's a mistake — that some iPhone users were accidentally subject to undeveloped test feature the company is still working on.
My take on how it would work is that whenever you come into the range of another computerphone with bluetooth active — which for class 2 is 10 meters (33 ft) — the LinkedIn app would pop up a quick summary of each other's resume.
Perfect for those times when you visit a big meeting with people A and their LinkedIn app show you just recently had a gig with corporation B that they really hate. As for apologizing, do remember that large corporations only retreat if the alternative hurts economically. For background information it might be good to know that LinkedIn was bought in 2016 by Microsoft, which happens to be very much in on the phone-home theme. Now if Tinder would auto-share in the same manner the various habits with any nearby phone during family gatherings, that would be a real hilarious circus starter.
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[...] He noted that shows similar to ABC's "Shark Tank" could potentially do very well with its business and networking minded users.
[...] Weiner also expressed interest in pursuing deals with professional sports leagues such as the NFL or NBA.
Also at GeekWire and MSPoweruser.
Previously: Microsoft to Buy LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion in Cash
LinkedIn Apologizes for Attempted Privacy Breach
LinkedIn Cannot Prevent Access to Public Profiles
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:54PM (5 children)
Next step, requiring an Office 365 subscription in order to use LinkedIn and as the only way to get a job.
(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
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:16PM (1 child)
Sure can't wait to see MDC lie about how his old bald dick head gets him all the jobs.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:12PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS4PkPNMWHY [youtube.com]
(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.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:42PM (5 children)
The Powers That Be have "upgraded" from an old clunky Office Program to 365. In effect, they've enabled, and encouraged, everyone to file resumes, online, on company time. Heh. One of the big shots was at work very late last night, trying to figure out how in hell to use 365. He asked me for help, I reminded him that I only use Microsoft crap under extreme duress. For the first time, he seemed almost to understand my position.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:45PM
"You're fired."
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:52PM (3 children)
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
Twas good until the advent of the fucking ribbon.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:18PM
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.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:47PM
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.
(Score: 4, Funny) by MrGuy on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:42PM
So...Clippy [wikipedia.org] is back!