Use a built-in Word resume template. If you’ve just downloaded Microsoft Word and want the quickest and easiest way to make a resume, start with one of Microsoft’s templates.You can look for ...

LinkedIn and Microsoft are teaming up on a Resume Assistant tool inside Microsoft Word that promises to help you tailor a resume to your chosen career path, or more specifically, to one of the 11 ...

That’s how Microsoft Word’s Resume Assistant can help: tapping LinkedIn to assist your work experience. Resume Assistant is now part of Microsoft Word, assuming you have an Office 365 ...

Recently, however, Microsoft added LinkedIn resources to Word in the form of a Resume Assistant. If you look at Word 2016's Review tab in Figure 1 below, you can see that the toolbar now contains ...

Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto. You’re trying to fine-tune your resume, and you want help. Using LinkedIn and Microsoft Word via Office 365, you can tap into an option called Resume Assistant.

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Resume Assistant lives within Word, where Microsoft says 80 percent of resumes are built, and leverages data from more than 500 million LinkedIn users and 11 million job postings.

Resume Assistant shows up in a panel on the right edge of a Word document, and allows people to see LinkedIn profiles with similar skills to their own and job postings that may match their experience.