Microsoft Launches LinkedIn-Powered Resume Assistant For Office 365 Subscribers 23
Microsoft and LinkedIn have launched their Resume Assistant, a Word-integrated tool that aims to help you write your resume by suggesting work experience descriptions pulled from similar LinkedIn profiles and requirements from real job postings. "The feature is available to Microsoft Office 365 subscribers, but one does not need a LinkedIn account to use it," reports Quartz. From the report: What's more, when you're done, Resume Assistant promises to "surface relevant job opportunities for you directly within Microsoft Word." The tool is the newest product to come out of Microsoft's takeover of LinkedIn, the high price of which raised more questions than it answered. Industry analysts speculated that Microsoft might have more up its sleeve than just trying to snag more users -- offering companies an entire hiring, learning, and training package, perhaps.
Clippy Lives (Score:5, Insightful)
It's nice that every resume prepared using this will look exactly like every resume prepared using this.
Maybe you could use a little better paper stock. It should make your future POP!
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Re: Clippy Lives (Score:1)
Condescending buttholes at Monkeyshit Corp feast on misery and suffering of desperation. What else is new.
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That is precisely the point. This is for HR to be able to click boxes for what they want and have a list of people with the desired skills and traits fall out the bottom. It will work as simply as making a query against the census.
Just like statistics, it will never tell the whole story. The fact that real-life human experience has very little to do with the resume is irrelevant. This is one step in the silent march toward the goal of having every aspect of every citizen quantified or modeled in some way.
There are few things more depressing... (Score:4, Insightful)
... than resumes.
It's the rat race personified.
Bad resume practices... (Score:2)
1. Spell things correctly, use correct capitalization, etc.
2. Don't copy and paste 50 bullet points from one job to the next
3. Don't lie
I've reviewed probably 100 resumes in the past year, and these things will kill your chances. As much as it annoys me, I can be persuaded to overlook 1 and 2... because you never know when something will slip through a spell-check, or if things get digitally mangled, or a recruiting agency takes it upon themselves to 'reformat' things. But if you make it to a phone scr
this one trick your employer will hate... (Score:1)
using your computer's word to get a new job!
You simply can't get more productive than that???
Seems legit (Score:2)
AI + Resume Analysis ... what could go wrong. (Score:2)
maybe better then recruiters that edit your one! (Score:2)
maybe better then recruiters that edit your one!
Where to go from here, asked the hapless intern (Score:4, Funny)
when AI replaces your current 9-to-5 job Clippy will be there. Wherever there is injustice, you will find The Three Amigos! namely, Microsoft, Linked In, and Clippy
How not to make sales (Score:1)
So let me get this straight..
Corporations are the main purchasers of Office 365 for their staff.
But Microsoft is now including a tool to help their staff create resumes (so as to make it easier to change jobs to other companies)
Really?
What sort of idiot came up with this bright idea?
You had me until "right there inside Word" (Score:3)
I was vaguely interested in this - it's an app that's needed writing for years because writing a CV/resume is a tiresome activity at the best of times.
The thing I really don't want is frikkin' job ads in my word processor - who thought this was a good idea!? Most of us have perfectly good web browsers for such things (granted, Microsoft only have Edge, but still...). Why I'd want any of that functionality added to my word processor is a mystery.
Now... if they made Linkedin a bit better, that would be useful engineering. But adding even more code to Word seems like a foolish endeavour to me. Linkedin just needs an "export my profile to Word format" and all the useful bits of this story would be taken care of.
Office Assistant (Score:1)
Nice LinkedIn Profile There (Score:3)
Would be a shame if something were to... happen to it.
A resume like that - it could go up like a tinderbox.
But - you could be safe. You really could. And it's so easy. All you need to do is get some 365 insurance for it. Then you can sleep easy at night, knowing that Microsoft and LinkedIn are making sure that you remain a viable job seeker.
You DO want to remain a viable job seeker, don't you?
Who thought this was a good idea? (Score:3)