Microsoft Incorporates LinkedIn With Word to help you write a resume

Most job seekers are going to love this. It’s not a promise of  new job, but it’s the next best thing.

Microsoft will help you arrange your CV, in a manner of speaking.

You remember last year, Microsoft purchased LinkedIn for $26 billion. Microsoft in its usual fashion of delivering the best possible user experience, promised to closely link the service with its Office suite of applications. While we’ve seen a new Windows 10 app for LinkedIn, Microsoft is unveiling an even more useful addition for its service: Resume Assistant. Office 365 subscribers will now get direct LinkedIn integration when they’re building a resume in Word.

The assistant works by picking out job descriptions in an existing resume and finding similar public examples on LinkedIn to help job seekers curate a better description. While you could simply copy the descriptions, Microsoft is only surfacing them in a side section in Word and not allowing users to simply drag and drop them into documents.

The resume assistant will also surface top skills that might be needed, and even job listings to find exactly what employers might be searching resumes for. It’s easy to see most of this information on LinkedIn already, but having it directly in Word where you’d probably writing a resume is a lot more convenient. Microsoft is bringing this to Office 365 subscribers on PC as part of the Office Insiders program today, and it will be available broadly in the coming months.