If you’re like me you just watched Monday Night Football and now you’re watching SportsCenter or the evening news. I am long overdue with this blog post. Since Russell Wilson became starting QB for the Seattle Seahawks, I have blogged about his performance each year. As this young man develops, matures, and gains experience it is evident that he is surrounded by the best staff, coaches, and teammates which allows him to excel in an exponential...
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Microsoft is a proud sponsor of She’s Geeky – “The unConference” this month in Seattle: http://shesgeeky.org/
Please come by and say hi and enter our raffle for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to the Microsoft Retail store. Hope to see you there!
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You prepared for the interviews, felt the interviews went well, and all signs pointed to yes…and yet in the end they decided to go in a different direction. Now what?
After you brush off the upset/mad/confused feelings and start some introspection, realize that this might be one point in your life where you’re more open to a little self -improvement/growth.
How do you regroup and make this a net positive experience?
1) Ask...
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With Social Media making its way into our daily lives, we are relying on it more and more for our communication, information, and, in some cases, even our jobs. As a Recruiter in the Application and Services Group at Microsoft, Social Media is an avenue that my colleagues and I are on daily to search for and reach out to job seekers. If you are someone who is looking for a new role and interested in hearing about what other companies are doing in...
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As we slip into the holiday season, Bing Jobs wants to help you think about your career presence in the New Year. What is your professional brand or image at work?
Coming off an action packed NFL weekend – I am more and more impressed by Russell Wilson and his presence both on and off the field. The maturity, responsibility, and opportunity he has as a second year QB is something I have never seen. A few words that come...
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Developers – It’s round two of Bing’s Coding Challenge! This time we have three opportunities to showcase your technical skills through three original coding challenges. Choose carefully as you can only submit one entry!
Microsoft News Experience Coding Challenge
The Bing Apps Coding Challenge
The Bing Phone Apps Coding Challenge
Start marinating over the challenges and when complete, submit your entry or entries to bingjobs...
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Microsoft is looking forward to attending KDD 2013 in Chicago and would like to meet you, please stop by our booth and say hello! Microsoft luminaries in attendance will include:
JC Mao
Jan Pedersen
Zijian Zheng
Brian Frasca
Ronny Kohavi
Rakesh Agrawal
Raghu Ramakrishnan
In addition, Microsoft is hosting two events and would love to see you there!
Microsoft’s Exclusive Event: Microsoft is hosting an exclusive and...
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Check out the link from Microsoft Jobs Blog by our very own Bing Recruiter, Eugenia, as she answers a the burning question in candidate’s heads as to what other factors should be considered in a job search. – http://microsoftjobsblog.com/overlooked
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Cyril Bounanna is a Senior Development Lead for the Bing Data Quality and Measurement Team. Today he presents to us a real-life scenario that software engineers and testers encounter when they are building Bing.
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Software engineers have developed a lot of expertise and solutions to assess code quality. From static analysis to E2E automation, performance benchmarks, or search relevance, we know how to verify if our code does the right...
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I think that everyone would agree with the statement that we live in a world that is ever changing and always evolving. The standard way of doing things in the past are being replaced with the better, faster, more efficient versions and this can been seen in almost everything we do. Making a career change is no exception.
Gone are the days of reading the ‘Want Ads’ in the newspaper, or dropping off your resume to that potential...
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