A Recruiter's Dear Santa Letter

Dear Santa: I don’t ask for much but since last year’s request of winning the lotto or hitting the jackpot in Vegas was a bust, I have prepared a better list.  One with more tangible items that I know you can easily get your hands on.  Louis Vuitton Handbag Jimmy Choo Shoes (size 8 ½ ) Diamond Earrings Anything  Burberry Microsoft’s Surface Halo 4 and some toys for my cat Rose and puppy Colonel Oh and last...
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Learn more about Elisa Jasinska - Network Toolsmith

  Elisa Jasinska started her Internet career as a Network Engineer at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange in 2005. The exchange point, also called AMS-IX, is a member driven non-profit Internet exchange based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With its small team, great atmosphere and incredibly smart people, AMS-IX made Elisa enthusiastic about networks and Internet technologies and she has been enjoying the Internet industry ever since.  ...
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Find out what the Bing Infrastructure Comsos team is up to

Our very own Bing Lead Staffing Consultant, Eugenia Sawa, sat down with a few of our leaders within the Bing Infrastrucutre Cosmos team. Here what they have to say about how this amazing internal data storage/query system and how analyzing enormous amounts (as in petabytes) of data is crucial to understanding our customers and business.   http://microsoftjobsblog.com/cosmos_tech_jobs
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Top Four Overlooked Factors in a Job Search

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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Challenges of Testing Data - Is it Really 73°F in Seattle right now? – by Cyril Bouanna

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. *** 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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Why Should You Talk to a Recruiter, You Ask? I’ll Tell You - by Andrea LaCoy

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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Scouting For Talent - by Brian Christensen

Working as a Staffing Consultant within Online Services Division here at Microsoft, I am constantly reminded that my job has a lot of similar aspects to sports and trying to put together a team that is set up to win. While watching the NBA Eastern Conference Finals this past weekend, I noticed the intricacies of what it took to put a winning team on the court. Even before teams come together, there is a lot of behind the scenes work that...
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Management Excellence - by Eugenia Sawa

As we head into the NBA Finals, my mind turns to Erik Spoelstra and the unique situation he is in.  With the finals starting tonight, I think about how Erik Spoelstra’s role as head coach of the Miami Heat, a team of very strong individual players each with their own strengths translates to the world of high technology and people management. Understand your players – Understand your team – how they operate as a team, their...
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Microsoft’s Best Presents at NANOG55 Event - by Petr Lapukhov

North American Network Operator Group, or NANOG, is an open forum bringing together network engineers from the US/Canada’s largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and enterprises. The main goals of NANOG meetings are exchanging ideas, presenting designs, giving tutorials, learning new things, and sharing operational experience. The event is very popular among network operators, and gathers hundreds of people three times a year. You can...
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“How I Made A Hire Through #BINGJOBSLIVE Twitter-Chat” By Barna Chatterjee

  It all started with the Twitter-Chat session on Friday, March 30, 2012.  OSD Staffing’s team hosted its first #BINGJOBSLIVE “Twitter-Chat.”  We wanted to promote #Bing as an employer of choice and increase the number of @BingJobs followers on Twitter. Along the way, we wanted to promote a variety of job opportunities, such as Bing Platform Senior Program Manager. Emilio was one of the Tweeters who approached us...
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