Here's the secret to making an impressive-looking Biodata, CV or Resume using Microsoft Word. Follow any one of these methods to make it stand out.

Microsoft's blockbuster acquisition of the enterprise social network is starting to bear fruit. Here's a quick tour of the built-in LinkedIn integration inside Word.

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” uses LinkedIn’s data to make Word a better résumé builder One of the first fruits of the LinkedIn purchase should make an unpopular task easier.

While using Microsoft Word may have been the best practice of years past, it’s a bit more common to send a resume as a PDF nowadays.