Expand Your Potential, Impact Our World A career at Microsoft is more than a job. It's a path to improving your skills, knowledge, and capabilities as you enhance your current role or, possibly, take on a new role within the company. Along the way, you'll find the tools, resources, and support to help you explore opportunities within Microsoft and realize your full potential.

A three-way partnership

Career and professional development at Microsoft is a partnership between you, your manager, and our company. You drive your career development plan, your manager assists and coaches you, and Microsoft supports your efforts by providing a framework for the process and resources for your development.

The goal of Training & Development at Microsoft is to achieve an optimal match between each employee's professional growth and Microsoft's business objectives. You can benefit from having a career or professional development plan, whether you're at the beginning of your career, looking to make some changes in your present position, or even if you already have your dream job and want to enrich your skills and knowledge.

As a Microsoft employee, you'll find an abundance of resources and assessment tools to help you clarify your business interests and improve your competencies and skills. A few examples include technical education seminars, management and professional development courses, the IT learning site, and Microsoft Training and Certification programs. In addition, we encourage professional development by reimbursing tuition and textbook fees for approved work-related courses.

The bottom line: At Microsoft, what you achieve — and how much you grow — is up to you.