Finding a job is never easy, but in this rough economy job seekers really need all the skills and resources they can muster. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all have free professional tips and advice for writing our resumes, to make them shine? Well, you don’t have to click your sparkly red shoes for that wish to come true. Office Online and Monster.com have teamed up to help you rise to the challenge of finding a new job in this difficult market.

As of today, everyone has access to the new Office Online Career Center, a one-stop-shop for job hunters that combines the best of both worlds. You can choose from the hundreds of Office resume and career-related templates, as well as benefit from Monster.com’s many job postings and career management tools and advice.

“I really liked the idea of going to work, and being able to say I did something that made the world a little bit better,” said Alycia Delmore who was looking for an administrative job with a non-profit and used the new resources to create a better resume for herself. “I had no idea anything like Microsoft Online existed. I went there, chose a template, put in all my information and there it was, boom, a really impressive resume.” Watch a video on Alycia’s experience, including a brief demonstration of the Office Online Career Center site, at http://office.microsoft.com.

And if you are a college student, Microsoft is launching a campaign just for you called My Resume Talks. As of April 7, students in search of a summer internship or a first job post-graduation can sign up on Facebook to win one of 500 one-on-one professional resume review sessions. The winners will set up an Office Live Workspace, where they will collaborate with a professional to edit, fine tune and customize their resumes. Talk about a perk! Stay tuned for more about that, such as demos and details about the Facebook page, closer to the start of the campaign.

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