tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59674715251106494232011-09-03T05:13:38.659-07:00I am a contractor recruiting for technical roles within the Disney Interactive Media Group. Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG), the interactive entertainment affiliate of The Walt Disney Company, creates immersive, connected, interactive experiences across console, online, mobile and social network platforms to entertain and inform audiences around the globe.Ryannoreply@blogger.comBlogger1231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967471525110649423.post-3820494479926361602011-07-21T12:33:00.000-07:002011-07-21T12:41:59.547-07:00

Technical recruiters will often hire people who will be writing, testing or reviewing code - which requires a certain level of methodical thinking and attention to detail. Your resume is often the first time a recruiter or hiring manager is getting to learn about you. If a resume has typos, it makes me wonder... If that person can't manage their own personal details, how are they going to manage

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My former co-worker, Wendy Hill, and I put together a Job Interview Bootcamp presentation for the Microsoft Certified Career Conference last fall. Since my departure from Microsoft, she is doing the presentation solo, and while I don't get a shout out... She rocks it! :)Even though this is presented with Microsoft in mind, this is a great way to learn about interviewing in general. If you prefer

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  You have about 15 seconds to make an impression with your resume. That’s about the amount of time recruiters and hiring managers say they spend with each job seeker’s resume, given the tidal wave of applicants for open positions these days. As a result, any glaring mistakes can land your resume in the trash bin. “The wow factor isn’t as important as being precise,” said Ryan Carfley,

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  Microsoft is using social media as foundation for a web-based reality show following the career quests of nine participants. You can follow their exploits online (e.g., at work when the boss isn't looking), no television required. The Career Factor website went live last week, but the nine participants only started updating their quests yesterday. The website describes itself as an "

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  No matter how successful and monopolistic Facebook gets, no matter how many awesome features Mark Zuckerberg announces in Palo Alto or how many ex-presidents he interviews, none of it appears to be slowing down LinkedIn, the social network that doesn't want to be known as a social network -- the one that's about having, getting and keeping a job. Why LinkedIn Is the Social Network That Will

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  Job hunting can be a laborious and morale-draining process. Many companies do not reply to the large quantities of candidates applying for jobs. A lot of candidates find this extremely frustrating and upsetting. Take a step back from travelling down the same route and look at innovative ways of improving your job search. Seek out networking opportunities and surround yourself with

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  Many people are focused on worrying about what to say in the interview and what questions to ask, and while these are extremely important, it’s also important to think about what you should do before the interview. Unlike the way my morning unfolded, you should first wake up early with enough time to relax and get yourself ready. Eat a substantial breakfast and if you drink coffee, make

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  Here's the complete list of games that have been officially announced for Windows Phone 7. Though Microsoft describes these as the "first wave" of games in the "launch portfolio," a spokesperson told me that it's still unclear how many of these will be available on the very first day of launch. "3D Brick Breaker Revolution" (Digital Chocolate) "Age of Zombies" (Halfbrick)

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  YouTube - Really: New Windows Phone Ad

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  As you saw in my most recent JobsBlog posting, I had the chance to learn how to use my new Canon EOS Rebel T1i camera in Disneyland. The kind and generous folks at Tours Departing Daily showed me the ropes and posted one of my pictures on their blog! You must check out their pics!   Photography by Ryan Graves Writing by Matthew Hansen This awesome picture was taken by a

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  It turns out that HR nor recruiters want to see .pdfs either. While 81% of the total poll preferred .doc to 16% who preferred .pdfs, when I removed candidate responses from the poll, it became a 100% .doc preference. reCareered: .doc vs .pdf - What Resume format do HR departments & recruiters prefer? Page 2

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  On November 18, 2010, jump-start, re-start, or catalyze your career at the Microsoft Certified Career Conference. The Microsoft Career Conference is a 24-hour virtual event where you can: - meet potential employers - hone your technical skills - acquire job-seeking skills - network with fellow professionals - glean career advice from real-life

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  My last series of postings (see the original articles here) were written to help people better prepare for their interview day at Microsoft. One of the comments we received asked how an interview for a position outside of our core-tech roles may be different. Since I am primarily a technical recruiter, I decided to sit down with one of my fellow Staffing Consultants, Theresa Larson, who

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  Hoping to leapfrog over Google and Apple's successes in the smartphone market, Microsoft plans to use cloud-based speech recognition and natural language processing technology to offer user interface capabilities not found on the iPhone or Android devices. "We believe speech is not a separate application. Rather it is an integral part of the user experience," said Zig Serafin, Microsoft

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  Making a career change is challenging in the best of times, so this economy certainly doesn’t help. Many people allow that to keep them frustrated and stuck—not just for now, but for the long haul. They think about making a change, decide they can’t do it, and stick their dissatisfied noses right back down to the same grindstone. But what feels impossible today could be an open door in the

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  “I was a Google user before, but the more I used Bing the more I liked it,” Mr. Callan said. “It’s more like muscle memory takes me to Google.” Bing still handles a small slice of Web searches in the United States, 12.7 percent in June, compared with Google’s 62.6 percent, as measured by comScore, the Web analytics firm. But Bing’s share has been growing, as has Yahoo’s, while Google’s

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  Remember the first time you used Google Street View? Amazing, right? Thing is, traversing a busy urban street in a 360-degree photographic bubble can be disorienting, especially when searching for a specific address or business. So check this: Microsoft Research has developed a rather nifty solution it calls Street Slide. Zoom out of your panoramic bubble and the street is presented as a

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  Click below to find out 10 ten reasons you should love Microsoft! 10 Reasons You Should Love Microsoft via Business Insider

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  CALL US BIASED, but it’s as easy to dig up reasons to love this city as it is to score gourmet grub on our streets. (Hey, there’s a reason right there…) In fact, we found so many—from our flair for flash mobbery to our kid-friendly bars—that we spread them all over this issue. All of them are as unique as Seattle itself—which is why we didn’t number them in any particular order: When you’ve

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  So let’s decode what Shaw really means with his numbers: 150,000,000 Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history. What he really means: While our rivals are getting all the hype in the press, and people keep blogging about us “dying”, we’re selling 7 copies of our OS every second. Keep this number in mind

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  In April, Microsoft launched a new site that integrated 103 country sites into one career-related site and simplified navigation. The portal has a dozen employees blogging about everything from interview tips to whether a failed start-up on a résumé hurts in applying for a job at the company. Margie Medd, director of employment branding, wouldn't say how much Microsoft spends on online

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“Microsoft is looking for people who are passionate about technology,” says Ryan Graves, staffing consultant for Microsoft and contributor to the company’s JobsBlog.com recruiting portal. “We’re looking at blogs and user groups to find out, ‘Are you contributing about technology? Do you care about the subject matter?’ ” Online presence helps companies such as Amazon, Expedia and Microsoft

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  Employee giving and company matching funds totaled almost $90 million last year (employee charitable donations and volunteer time are matched up to $12,000 a year). Such support has moved well beyond a fringe benefit. To attract the next generation of employees, making a social mission part of the company's DNA has become a vital recruiting tool, said Lisa Brummel, senior vice

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  Social profile research and discovery company Flowtown has published some findings about how employees use social media and which companies have the most “social” employees. Each company’s ranking is determined by its employees’ overall social media activity, including the average number of connections across various networks. Flowtown even ranked employees on Twitter by average number

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This is No. 9 in my series of 10 posts on Microsoft Women Worth Watching. Today's profile is of Erin Chapple, a Group Program Manager in Windows Server who is focused on management and automation services -- both of which are increasingly important to Windows and its customers. Erin Chapple: Microsoft Women Worth Watching | ZDNet

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Before the world shuddered two years ago, U.S. companies dominated our Most Innovative Companies ranking, easily outnumbering corporations based outside of America. But now that the global economy seems to be growing again, senior executives surveyed by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) no longer consider the U.S. the be-all and end-all in innovation.  Yes, Apple reigns as No. 1 again, trailed by

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  In the 25-plus years I’ve written about technology, I’ve interviewed fewer than 50 female Microsoft employees (by my rough estimate). In part, this is because there are less of them. Microsoft officials say women comprise 25 percent of the company’s total workforce. It’s also because many of the women who do work at Microsoft are in marketing, sales and support roles and aren’t among those

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  Microsoft Careers is #5 on the list – click through to see how other companies did! We have recently come across a great list of 39 Most Popular Facebook Pages In The World for Job Search by Jacob Share of Jobmob.co.il.   We were happy to see Resumark’s own Facebook Page ranked #12.  However, after studying the list a bit closer, we realized that not every popular page may be useful to

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  Our very own Ryan Graves was interviewed on KUOW 94.9 (the National Public Radio affiliate radio station in Seattle and the most listened-to news station in Washington State) last Friday. Host Ross Reynolds, of the popular program The Conversation, looked to Ryan to provide a recruiter’s perspective on how to find a job in this economy. Reynolds previewed the show as, "In this tight

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Based on some of the comments we’ve seen, as well as your prior questions to the JobsBloggers, I suspect this may be one of the more popular segments in the three part series. I’ve tried to think of the various things I bring up when preparing candidates for the interview at Microsoft. If there are other things you’re curious about, please ask in the comments section and I’ll do my best to answer

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Now that you’re prepped and rested, you’re ready for the big day!First thing’s firstNot to sound like your mother, but – even if you’re not a breakfast person (like me) – make sure to eat something before you start your day. You will likely have a chance to refuel at a lunch interview, but it’s important to be at your best during the morning sessions. Being hungry and anxious for lunchtime can

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Interviewing is bound to conjure all sorts of emotions. Most candidates are excited, nervous, anxious, ecstatic or some combination of all of the above.Regardless of what you might be feeling, this three-part article is intended to help you prepare for your interview. It will give you a sense of what to expect on the day of the interview, as well as some hints and tips to help you be

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via GizmodoWhen Microsoft wants to you hire you, it drops a "love bomb" on you, according to a person we spoke with who Microsoft wooed.Microsoft wanted our source— let's call him Tony — to join its entertainment and devices division.Tony ultimately turned Microsoft down, opting to start his own consultancy. But he says if he wasn't starting his own thing, he was ready to take the job in "a

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Via ForbesWhile we hear plenty about how great (or creepy, depending on your perspective) life is at Google, we rarely hear about life at Microsoft.Well, guess what? It's pretty nice there too. A few months back a friend of a friend landed a job at Microsoft. When we emailed to see what it was like, here's what we learned:The health benefits are quite good, and don't require any premiums from the

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  While many people have jobs at Microsoft that aim to avoid disasters, Gisli Olafsson's job is getting through them. As a full-time disaster management specialist for the software maker, Olafsson works with the United Nations and other agencies to prepare before devastation hits and also to coordinate efforts once it does. Olafsson has been sent across the globe to deal with the

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It’s no secret that there are a lot of people out of work these days. What you may not have known is that the national unemployment rate has a direct effect on everyone looking for a job.Companies are inundated with resumes, many from people who aren’t necessarily qualified for—or even interested in—the position for which they’re applying. This has been not only my personal experience, but I’ve

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Please apply on our career site.  Microsoft CRM (Customer Relations Management) is a business application designed to accelerate sales, service, and marketing. The CRM team is leading the way in transitioning Microsoft's server business from the enterprise to the internet by enabling both offerings on a single code base while growing at a rapid pace. CRM Online is a premium paid service ($44

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  Microsoft's Laptop Hunters ads are making an impact on the perception of Windows computers vs. Apple computers in terms of value, according to BrandIndex. That's been the key point in Microsoft's ads, that there are more choices and lower prices among Windows PCs. The data from BrandIndex shows that Apple's value score among the key 18 - 34 segment dropping since late winter to about

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  Today’s job market is more challenging than any that most IT professionals have ever faced. One consequence is that strategies to locate employment that may have proved successful in previous economic cycles may not be as effective today. Here are some tips to help you land a high-tech job in the current recession: Throw out your old resume When launching a job hunt, your first step

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  BigPark Inc., a two-year-old Vancouver online video game company, will be bought by U.S. computer software giant Microsoft, the American company announced Thursday. Microsoft, in a statement, said the Canadian video game maker will be integrated with Microsoft Game Studios, based in Redmond, Wash., “where the team will continue development on an exclusive Xbox 360 game.” Financial

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Since many recruiters are now “Tweeting” – Here’s a good read on how to get started using Twitter. OPRAH WINFREY granted pop superstardom in April not to another fraudulent memoirist, but to Twitter, the online social network that has lured both Hollywood celebrities and basement amateurs away from their blogs. TweetDeck, a Twitter app, breaks out multiple columns for different kinds

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When Fast Company named Seattle its 2009 City of the Year -- based on the city's creativity, the editors said -- surely, I thought, the weather and the winters must have had something to do with it. Our winters are dark: At 47 degrees latitude, the winter solstice brings sundown at 4:21 p.m. and sunrise at 7:54 a.m. Our winters are gray: While we get only 38 inches of rain per year -- less than

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My mom recently asked me to review her resume, and so did some of her friends (one of the joys of being a recruiter). These are all very accomplished healthcare executives, but their resumes lacked the pow that I find in resumes of candidates I usually choose to move forward with. It wasn’t because they weren’t stellar professionals, but because they didn’t present their skills in the most

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  Looking for a new job, Alexa Scordato didn't email or call her contacts about possible openings. Instead, she messaged them via the social-networking Web site Twitter.com. Her brief message: "Hey there! Looking for a Social Media job up in Boston. Are you guys doing any entry level hires?" Within a week, she had an interview. Within two weeks, she had a job. The site, which lets

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  Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious overhaul of its recruitment marketing that is matched only by an equally ambitious overhaul of its recruitment technology. When the decision was made a couple of years ago to update its talent acquisition system by tying together all the company’s far flung offices with an SAP system, Microsoft decided it was a good time to rework its global careers

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  It started with five routes and a dozen buses. Nineteen routes and 53 buses later, Microsoft's employee shuttle service has become ubiquitous in neighborhoods around Seattle and the Eastside. The Microsoft Connector, which began in September 2007, is now one of the largest company-owned employee bus services in the United States, Microsoft says. The white buses shuttle workers to the

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  Finding a job is never easy, but in this rough economy job seekers really need all the skills and resources they can muster. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all have free professional tips and advice for writing our resumes, to make them shine? Well, you don’t have to click your sparkly red shoes for that wish to come true. Office Online and Monster.com have teamed up to help you rise to

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  This is a Facebook page by Office Live… Your resume speaks for you. Be sure it says all the right things. Enter the My Resume Talks Sweepstakes for a chance to win* a consultation from a Certified and Professional Resume Specialist. 500 total winners will be selected! Sweepstakes ends May 4th! DESCRIPTION OF RESUME CONSULTATION PRIZES: Winners of the Microsoft Office Live My

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  Getting laid off means something different for everyone who experiences it. For some, losing a job is as devastating as heartbreak, and for others it is an escape from a hated profession. No matter the circumstance, now is the time to weigh your options and decide what to do next. Ask yourself these questions to help determine your options: Do you want to return to work? Free

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  People interested in working at Microsoft often contact me (and other recruiters, I’m sure) through LinkedIn. For me, this and other social networking sites are a great way for recruiters and candidates to connect, and I’ve made some great hires for Microsoft by using LinkedIn. But when you reach out to recruiters online, it’s not the same as adding old high school friends on Facebook.

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I created my very first LinkedIn poll! Please vote!

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With the Jerry Seinfeld era behind it, Microsoft is moving ahead with a new Windows advertising strategy that aims at Apple's Achilles' heel: Higher prices. The commercial appears to be the first in a series called Laptop Hunters, and it puts Microsoft on the offense instead of the defense. Microsoft's just-released Windows commercial taps into the price-conscious, recession-driven

Ryannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967471525110649423.post-73682476025212000682009-03-20T12:03:00.001-07:002009-03-20T12:03:32.321-07:00

  Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) received a small bump in market share yesterday as the company launched the final version midday, according to Web measurement company Net Applications Inc. IE8's market share averaged 1.63% for the day Thursday from noon Eastern time onward -- when Microsoft posted the new browser for download -- a 21% increase over March's daily average of

Ryannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967471525110649423.post-74340622256681867022009-03-18T18:43:00.001-07:002009-03-18T18:43:06.349-07:00

  Microsoft is playing it straight with the next generation of its Surface table. Called SecondLight, it will be just that — an upgraded Surface table with a second projector. The added projector will allow the Surface to layer one screen over another, so a satellite overlay could be projected onto a city map, or a render of a completed building over a set of blueprints, and so on. In

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  Microsoft started releasing the beta of its Silverlight 3 interactive technology overnight, in advance of this morning's Mix keynote session in Las Vegas. The company is trying to build more momentum for the Silverlight technology, its rival to Adobe Flash. Emil Protalinski at Ars Technica and Eric Krangel at Alley Insider are on top of the story. See Next Best Geek for a list of key

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Okay, I will come clean - the piece about Microsoft buying Dell is an April Fool piece. Slightly in advance it’s true, but that’s because the column was automatically taken from the issue of PC Pro that’s out now (see left), and it’s that issue that will be out on sale on the 1st of April!To be crystal clear - I have no knowledge of Microsoft intending to buy Dell, or Krispie Kreme doughnuts or

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"There are many unanswered questions about today's job market: Will the economy get worse before it gets better? Will companies lay off more people? Can I still find a new job?Any answer is, of course, an educated guess at best. Yet, you shouldn't assume that tight budgets and slowed job growth -- if they continue -- mean everyone is tied to their current jobs forever. People will still leave

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Update: Microsoft buys Dell: April Fools! The news that Microsoft is to buy Dell, which should become official at the beginning of April, comes as no big surprise. Dell hasn't been doing that well recently, and the global economic downturn is certainly contributing to its woes. Few companies are prepared to splash out on new hardware when money is tight, especially without a clear indication that

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"Even with somewhere north of $1 billion in annual sales, Microsoft Business Solutions is dwarfed by the enormous Office business that it shares space with in the company's quarterly reports.But Kirill Tatarinov, the group's leader since July 2007, said MBS brings more to the broader Microsoft than revenue from its Dynamics-branded systems, which manage a company's customer relationships,

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  Apple significantly helped Microsoft "get it right" with Windows 7. Our technical team has looked at the Windows 7 beta. This is a team that doesn't throw out idle praise and certainly doesn't pull any punches when reviewing Microsoft technology. To say that the early returns from our team on Windows 7 are positive would be an understatement. Microsoft appears to have delivered. And the

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  For those who may have been victims of recent layoffs, FedEx Office is offering one day of free resume printing. On March 10, the FedEx Corp. subsidiary will offer up to 25 free copies of resumes submitted and picked up inside a store for customers currently job hunting. The resume can be submitted as a digital file or by hand during regular business hours to any of the more than

Ryannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967471525110649423.post-5298010024642853582009-03-04T17:54:00.001-08:002009-03-04T17:54:28.627-08:00

  So as not to give companies more excuses to kick employees to the curb in this tough economy, I've warned before about watching what you post to your social networking site. After all, MySpace photos have gotten an Oregon mayor recalled, and now a Facebook post about how boring her job was has gotten Kimberley Swann of Clacton on Sea in England fired from her job at Ivell Marketing and

Ryannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967471525110649423.post-11918479822933199472009-02-26T21:20:00.001-08:002009-02-26T21:20:48.824-08:00

  It may have rubbed Wall Street the wrong way, but it rubbed me the right way... CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street analysts on Tuesday that the software giant has no intention of making any more job cuts despite the year-long U.S. recession's effects on the technology industry.     Technology News: Wall Street: Microsoft Strategy Rubs Wall St. the Wrong Way

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While I've rarely done this when considering a candidate, I imagine there are quite a few recruiters who do... As millions seek new jobs to replace positions lost in the recession, keep in mind that the Internet gives employers unprecedented access to information about you. Employers aren't content with facts gleaned from public records. They're also using the Internet to assess your

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  AS LAYOFFS CONTINUE, thousands are out there pounding the pavement looking for work. Perhaps you heard about the 1,400-plus applicants for one meter reader job in Tacoma recently. Yet, astonishingly, I hear from employers complaining about how job seekers show up for interviews -- late, unkempt, dressed inappropriately and often having done no research about the company or position. That

Ryannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967471525110649423.post-22017006903538529072009-02-26T20:51:00.001-08:002009-02-26T20:56:39.254-08:00

  I'm also a blogger on www.jobsblog.com - Microsoft's Jobs Blog... I'll be posting those posts here as well. Be sure to visit jobsblog.com for some great information! Dear JobsBlog: Would you recommend I tailor my resume when applying for a job? Does this help or hinder my chances of getting the position? -Resume Riled Dear "Resume Riled": As with many areas of recruiting, it depends. It

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Headhunter dishes on why people leave Google Tech news blog - CNET News.com:"Here are the other reasons for leaving:• The stock options aren't looking so spiffy these days. Google's share price has dropped significantly since 2007.• Google isn't a hot start-up anymore.• It's bogged down by corporate culture. 'The environment in which engineers were able to create their own products and services

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Microsoft Decides Not To Bid Against Itself; No To Price Rise on Yahoo: Report paidContent.org:"Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), not in any particular mood to bid against the only competition it has --itself-- has no plans to raise its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), reports WSJ, citing sources. The company is instead biding its time, and so far has had only one formal meeting with Yahoo on the

Ryannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967471525110649423.post-62416420434578200812008-04-02T08:45:00.000-07:002008-04-02T08:45:32.056-07:00

Web site maker on the cheap - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper:"You want a Web site for your small business, but you don't want to fool around with HTML coding, cascading style sheets, etc.It doesn't have to be a world-beating site, but it should cover all the bases, and at reasonable cost.Microsoft Corp., believe it or not, has a solution."

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How to leave your job on the right note - Washington Business Journal:"So you have received that perfect job offer and told your boss about it. Now it's time to clear out your desk, take long lunch breaks, push the autopilot button and ride out those final two weeks, right?Better think again, or it could come back to haunt you."

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PC World - 101 Fantastic Freebies:Microsoft Office Live Small Business (service) With this service, you can share documents and collaborate with coworkers and customers, build a Web site, and manage your contacts. A variety of for-pay options are available as well, but you don't have to pay for the basics.

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Career: Reasons to Trash or Rewrite Your Resumevia Lifehacker.com"Marketing expert Seth Godin says job hunters who are "remarkable, amazing, and spectacular" probably shouldn't have a resume. Bold statement! Godin writes:Having a resume begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for relevant keywords, and begs for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine. Just more fodder for the

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Top 10 Interview Blunders:"How Not to InterviewWhat shouldn't you do when interviewing? Here are a selection of blunders, mistakes and errors a candidate for employment can make. Spend time preparing to interview so these don't happen to you!Top 10 Interview Blunders"This article has some great tips on what not to do when interviewing for a position!

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Extend your Office apps via Live Workspace Workers' Edge - a productivity blog from Dennis O'Reilly - CNET Blogs:"I spent Wednesday afternoon getting to know Microsoft's new Office Live Workspace, a free service that lets you store Office files online for easy access and sharing.Once I got used to what the service isn't--it isn't a way to actually work on the files in a browser--I came to

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Microsoft Offers $100K to Testers of Office Live Workspace - New York Times:"Microsoft Corp. plans to announce Tuesday that it is running a sweepstakes with a US$100,000 grand prize for U.S. beta testers of the Web-based document storage and collaboration offering."

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Office Live Workspace - first feature update goes live - LiveSide - News blog"Office Live Workspace launched last December and just got its first update, what's new:A new Activity pane to help you keep track of what’s happening in your workspaces and email notifications so you always know when the people you share with make updates. This feature is a lot of fun and makes it easy to see at glance

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Microsoft DreamSpark Helps Ignite the Imaginations, Careers of Today’s Students: Q&A: Joe Wilson, Microsoft Senior Director of Academic Initiatives for Developer and Platform Evangelism, discusses how making professional software tools:"A new program from Microsoft hopes to help change all that. Called DreamSpark, the program will offer students access to professional development tools at no cost

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Quest For The Best: Driven to Distraction ERE Blog Network:"Did you catch the “Tide to Go” Super Bowl Spot? Talk about a commercial that speaks directly to recruiters (and candidates.) A young man dressed in a white shirt and tie begins an interview. The interviewer starts with a question, but when the candidate speaks, the interviewer’s attention is riveted to the obvious stain on his white

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How to Change the World: Ten Ways to Use LinkedInThe average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven.The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need. Later, you can hire Harvard MBAs to prepare your income taxes.People with more than twenty

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Yahoo said to be discussing possible partnership with News Corp. to thwart Microsoft KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington Business:"Yahoo Inc. is discussing a possible partnership with News Corp. in its latest effort to repel Microsoft Corp. or prod its unsolicited suitor into raising its current takeover bid, according to a person familiar with the talks."

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Inside Office Online blog : Beyond the resume - job hunting advice from a Microsoft HR professional:"I’d like to share with you some tips for those of you that want to explore the job market and want to get ahead of the game. Enjoy!"

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Microsoft's JobsBlog : A Dream Come True:"Some of you might remember this, during our all hands for the Give campaign I talked about my dream about providing free healthcare to the poor people in the city I grew up. During my stay in Bangladesh this time, I was finally able to turn this dream into reality. With the help of a non-profit organization called Distressed Children International,

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Microsoft Revamps Office Live Small Business - News and Analysis by PC Magazine:"Microsoft has transformed Office Live Small Business into more of an a la carte proposition with today's update of the service. Whereas until now, you had to choose among three flavors—Basics, Essentials, and Premium—everyone now starts from the same place for free, and can add as much as they need at extra cost."

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Google Announces New Apps Offering:"Google today announced Google Apps Team Edition, a update to its successful online office suite. Google Apps Team Edition is a free service which enables users within the same e-mail domain to collaborate easily with Google Apps, which includes the online-based office products Docs, Calendar, Talk, and Start Page."

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Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share:"Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive company, providing superior value to shareholders, better choice and innovation for customers and partners."

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Roadmap to a Winning ResumeBy Dean Tracy(From The Ladders)As a recruiter, I have seen thousands of resumes from very qualified and capable candidates across the globe. They have come from nearly every industry and market segment and have represented administrative professionals as well as corporate executives.While I review each resume, my role is to carefully read between the lines and try to

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AdamU's WebLog : What's the difference between SDE and SDET at microsoft?:"I was exchanging email with a candidate last night who was confused about the differences between what dev and test do at microsoft, and as I tried to compose my thoughts about what it is that SDETs do, I thought that it would be good to share this on my blog."

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Workin' It at Microsoft Facebook:"Hi, we’re Microsoft ... a not-so-little startup company. We know a lot of you think you know us. Some of you really do. Either way, we wanted to make sure you know that you could have a great career and life here.Check out our videos, pictures, and blogs. Discuss what it’s like to interview and work here with others in-the-know. And head on over to our JobsBlog

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Radical Recruitment:"Welcome readers to my new Blog, entitled Radical Recruitment. You might be wondering what is Radical Recruitment. For me, it's a new way of thinking about recruiting, I think the great Lou Adler said it best when he wrote 'Find Jobs for People, not People for Jobs'. It's a new paradigm in recruitment, that places the candidate at the forefront of the process, and aligns all

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The Power of Stories for Employment Branding and Referrals - Articles - ERE:"Few people would disagree with the premise that stories are powerful mechanisms for selling ideas and concepts. In fact, there have been books written about how stories can help build and maintain corporate cultures. But, what most recruiters don't know is that stories can and should play a prominent role in building a

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Microsoft Office Accounting to challenge payroll providers - 16 Jan 2008The Payroll for Microsoft Office Accounting module - one of the less obvious features of Microsoft's new bookkeeping application - could be just as disruptive to the business software industry.John Stokdyk reportsAlong with Office Accounting 2008, the payroll module is being offered as a free trial download to users until 5

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Does My Resume Stink?By Alesia BenedictWould you like resume advice from the experts? TheLadders.com Resume Service is here to help. Contact our experts directly or, if you’re feeling lucky, send us your resume for entry in our Does My Resume Stink contest. Each month, one winner will receive a full resume rewrite for free!And now, on to this month’s before and after…Our job seeker has a great

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ITPro: Applications: News: CES 2008: Microsoft updates Office Live:"Microsoft has unveiled a beta version of its online collaboration tool for small business, Office Live Workspace.The new tool, which is part of the Office Live brand of hosted business applications and services, uses the company's business-grade SharePoint technology, but wraps it in an easy-to-use, web-based interface.The

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Entrepreneur Business Blog: Friendly Faces at CES:"While traversing the giant spaces of CES, it's always nice to run into familiar faces. At the Microsoft booth, our friends at Office Live Small Business were happy to show me a new feature: Ad Manager. This lets you enter in possible keywords that pertain to your business' search engine results, and then shows you how much that keyword would cost

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Stephen R. Covey » Blog Archive » How to strike a work and life balance:"With today’s technology, multitaskers are using PDAs, cellphones, text messaging and emails to stay in connected 24 hours a day. While lighthearted nicknames like “crackberry” have been coined to describe this almost obsessive behavior, what happens when we become addicted to this connectivity? Do we exclude the other

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Job Search: Use the "Rule of Thirds" to Organize Job Searches:VIA LIFEHACKER"Are you a carpet bomber when it comes to job hunting, sending out reams of resumes and praying you'll see responses? The Job Bored career blog recommends instead sticking to a 'Rule of Thirds'—sending out three resumes each to jobs you're slightly underqualified for, jobs you're sure you can pull, and random jobs you

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Steve Rowe's Blog : Interviewing the Experienced: "This week there was an interesting conversation over on Slashdot. The subject of the post is an age discrimination suit against Google. However, the discussion has gone to other interesting places. The question is being asked if there is a difference in the way you should interview experienced people vs. those just out of school. It reflects

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The Joel on Software Discussion Group - difference between interviewing entry level vs. experienced?:"I have never interviewed an entry level candidate. So what do you do differently? What do you look for in an entry level candidate?"

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Through the Eyes of a Recruiter: Would you be offended?"Thought provoking article in portfolio.com; Interviewing for Jobs AbroadAs an American in Human Resources/ Recruitment/Big business it is interesting to me to see recruitment processes and prospective outside the US.This article focuses on things discussed and asked in interviews that we wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole in the USA. Are we

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