Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Business Book Review Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

May 22--Do you want a job at Microsoft, the software giant in Seattle? Even though the company might be broken up by the federal government?

If you answered "yes" to the above questions, then pick up a copy of Rebecca Smith's new book, "The Unofficial Guide to Getting a Job at Microsoft"(McGraw-Hill, 192 pages, $16.95).

Microsoft gets about 12,000 resumes a month, with 70 percent arriving electronically, so making yours stand out from the crowd is difficult.

But don't despair if you are not a computer programmer, because Microsoft has hundreds of jobs -- in areas such as finance, accounting and furniture design -- that are not directly related to …