I spoke with a candidate yesterday that was relocating to Seattle because his wife had accepted a job with Bing. He asked my advice on getting his job search started, which prompted me to share the advice with all of you. Here are 3 things that you can do that will put you ahead of the pack.
1. Brush up your resume.
Ideally you want to look for a job while you still have one. If you are...
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The Bing Mobile group in Boulder, Colorado is constantly
developing new areas to bring relevance to search through processing and
interpreting imagery. When we last met, I had
outlined the structure
of our team and operations in Boulder, CO. This time around, I’d like
to take some time to go a little more in depth on one of our products: Bird’s
Eye imagery.
One of
the challenges our site met in the previous year was...
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Black History Month is in February and Microsoft Jobs Blog
takes a moment to speak with our very own Tameiko Davis. Tameiko is a
Staffing Manager supporting Bing, and she reflects on the role diversity plays
in the hiring process and how Microsoft’s company wide diversity efforts have
affected her personally. Take a moment to view the post here: http://jobsblog.com/blog/diversity-and-inspiration-at-microsoft/
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Steve Coast joined Microsoft in
November 2010 as a Principal Architect. Steve founded OpenStreetMap
in 2004 which is a free and open map of the world. He also co-founded
CloudMade in 2008 that monetizes the map as values moves upstream. Take a
look at Steve’s OpenStreetMap talk at Location Strategies San Jose 2011. http://www.stevecoast.com/talks.html
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I have been working as a user experience and visual designer for Bing since
October 2009. Over the past year and a half, I have gotten to help redefine the
visual look and feel of the product, as well as drive design for several
innovative new features. I see search as a very exciting area to work in because
of the opportunity that I have to organize and visualize the world’s information
in new, more meaningful ways. I think Bing design will...
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Our advertising team is working to deliver unique digital advertising experiences to key audiences. Natasha is the Director of Global Insights and Analytics for Microsoft Advertising. She discusses a topic that is near and dear to her heart: Multi Screen Moms. Learn about how Moms use their digital devices and what unique advertising opportunities this creates. You can view her blog entry and webcast here. Are you a...
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My name is Diana and I am the Content Ads Product Manager in APS. Right now we are focused on Yahoo! migration and landing it successfully. It is a very interesting time to work in this division and I am excited by the huge opportunities for Content Ads in the next year. Before I joined full-time, I was a vendor with the same group and got to learn a lot about APS and Microsoft. From the start, I was impressed with...
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Happy Thanksgiving 2010!
Here we are again, celebrating another Thanksgiving. What a blessing it is been for me to be a part of an awesome team, Online Service Division/BING. Thank you all for the experience I take with me as I move into my new role as a Program Manager for the Microsoft Diversity Recruiting Team/DRIVE. I strive to remember every day of the year how lucky I am, and each year as Thanksgiving approaches I make a...
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I work in the “Paid Search” division within OSD. We are the team that fuels the monetization for Bing Search and now Yahoo search as well. Microsoft’s paid search advertising, aka adCenter, provides an advertising platform for search marketing advertisers to reach to users who are searching for their products. Search Engine Marketing is projected to be over $25B/year market in the USA in 2011.
Within the adCenter product,...
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