A whole lot of jobs opened this week in Bing.  You might be busy with your holiday shopping instead of looking for a job, but it’s a good time to head over to the careers page if you haven’t visited in a while.  New jobs in Boulder, Colorado, new roles for Ph.D.-style researchers, and a slew of new senior opportunities make this a great time to check it out.   The holiday season can be an unique opportunity...
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So my beloved Seahawks were off to a great start during exhibition but stricken with injuries and what not we now have a 5-7 record.  Nevertheless, this season overall has been fun to watch. Peyton and company never cease to amaze me and Farve as a Viking has been interesting–I am beginning to think that experience is way more valuable than pure physical ability.  Since I have had more time to watch football this season, I find...
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I recently read a disturbing  New York Times article on diverse educated folks struggling to find good jobs.  While this article specifically addressed Blacks, I bet there are similar stories for other ethnically diverse people as well as women. Are we still in the early 1900’s? Who is still allowing these folks to have hiring authority and how come they have not yet retired???   I thought (or was hoping) we were further...
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I’ve used a few choice words in my life. You probably have too?  However, when the wrong words appear on your resume, it sucks and could be damaging to your next career move. These suckie words are not of the four-letter variety. These words are very common. They are accepted. They cover the average resume with buzz worthy words badness. Hiring managers can identify sucky words in seconds, leaving your resume work worthless. So how do...
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Want an inside secret?    Everyone wants to study for their upcoming interviews, but with all the information out there, what do you choose?   In a meeting today with the executive leadership at Bing, they were discussing all of the online learning options. And one (very-senior-not-to-be-named) executive raved about the machine learning series from Stanford professor Andrew Ng. And it seems that for free, and in a variety of...
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Before we open a new req at Microsoft, the recruiter sits down with the hiring manager and discusses the role, the business problem to be solved and where we might find this person. (Shocking, game changing, inside information I know, but bear with me… ). The reason I bring this up though, is that in my Advertising R&D -Development org, the problems we’re trying to solve have very little to do with the domain of Online Advertising...
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Today we launched the Fall Release of Bing.  We have some exciting new mapping features and are further enabling users to make decisions about things in everyday life with Bing.  As a user of Bing, this is of course, great news. But think about it from this perspective – imagine being a member of the Bing team.  One of the things almost all my candidates tell me they want is impact and quick product lifecycles.  Bing...
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One last Thanksgiving thought: Thanksgiving is the appointed time for focusing on the good in our BING lives.In each of our days, we can find small BING thoughts, but too often we overlook them,choosing instead to spend our BING time paying attention to BING problems. We give our BING energy to those who cause us search troubles instead of those who bring BING peace.Starting now, let’s be on the lookout for the bits of pleasure in each...
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Last week I told you about a senior level Black candidate who interviewed for a position with our product group and after his interview headed to a BBQ hosted by a long-term Microsoft Black employee. So — Was the event, or candidate experience to put it more accurately, a disaster or success??? …It was a HUGE success! The candidate emailed the recruiter to let her know meeting with this group of folks (keep in mind these are...
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I visited my parents this week and I asked if they were using Bing.…   “Bing?, What’s Bing?”      I was shocked.    How is it that Bing is being advertised on every networking television program,  and my father (who is permanently glued to the TV), has no idea what it is. I explained it was a search engine and he was still confused.  And it wasn’t until I told him the...
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