Spring is a time of renewal, a time to make household repairs, plant a garden, or lose the spare tire that mysteriously appeared sometime between Halloween and New Year’s Day. Dusting off the cobwebs from a long, dark, cold winter also applies to your career.
Be it a refocus, a restart, or a change in direction these tips should help you get started and set the course for a great year.
Resume Refresh
Find your resume: This...
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Jobs Blog - Posts tagged with 'careers'
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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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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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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Microsoft’s careers page has a new look…Mobile. Use the link below to access job descriptions and apply to positions directly through your mobile device! You can even sign up to receive job alerts! Happy job hunting.
http://m.microsoft-careers.com/
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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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While staring at the words of my dating profile: Hello, my name is Katherine, I am 5’8″, and have brown hair and eyes and I like golf, tennis and long walks on the beach…I got to thinking, wow, this is really similar to recruiting. So, for the fun of it, I thought I would compare the similarities. These are my findings!
Your resume is your online profile. It tells a recruiter everything we need know about you....
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Have you heard about The Microsoft Garage? It’s not a place to park or fix cars. The Garage is company wide initiative, compromised of a community, events, and services to foster and support grassroots innovation inside of Microsoft. In the Garage, you’ll find over 3000 people from across Microsoft who are eager to hear your ideas, provide feedback and, quite possibly, turn those ideas into reality.The Garage also offers...
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