Work Magazine (http://work-magazine.com/) has posted an Excel plug-in designed to help users find a new job, while making their current boss think they're working HARD. The software uses the Indeed.com's search engine, and displays job listings in Excel. From a few feet away, however, it looks like any ordinary spreadsheet.
Below is the article and instruction on how to use the new excel plug-in:
You know how sometimes the only thing you want to do at work is search for another job, but you're afraid you'll get in trouble? Yeah? Well, buy us drinks next time you're in town, because we just solved that problem.
I'd like to introduce Worksheet, the job search spreadsheet. It's a real Excel 2000 spreadsheet that plugs into Indeed.com's search engine to make your job search look like actual work. So you type in your search keywords, the city you're looking in, and the number of results you want, and it gives you what, to the untrained eye, is just more spreadsheet drudgery.
Here's how to use it:
1) Download the Worksheet at http://work-magazine.com/worksheet.zip
2) Go get an API Key from Indeed.com at http://www.indeed.com/jsp/createaccount.jsp
3) Enable Macros when you open the spreadsheet
4) Play Gang Starr's "Work" while you search (optional)
5) Get a better job and then come back to tell us about it
