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In this issue... |  | Four Career Resolutions You Can Keep in 2006 New Year's resolutions are notoriously difficult to keep. This year, break free of the cycle and develop realistic career resolutions. Here are four ideas to get you started. | ||||||||||||
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| Meet Microsoft Recruiters at the following U.S. career fairs and conferences: Check our website for future events at http://www.microsoft.com/careers/events/ |
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Best Job Seeker Blog The blog category winners for the Recruiting.com 2005 Best Blog awards have been chosen and our own Jobsblog won both the 'Best Job Seeker Blog' and the 'Best Group Blog' categories. Check out the Technical Careers @ Microsoft Jobsblog today.
Learn more...As Seen on The Apprentice Watch the videos from The Apprentice episode that featured Live Meeting.
Learn more...Marketing Your 'Hidden' Job Skills Millions of job seekers -- including individuals new to the working world and those well past graduation -- wrestle with the same doubts: They're unsure if they are skilled or experienced enough to land a job in today's employment market. If you are among this group, the good news is you likely have more to offer companies than you think. In fact, you may have dozens of "hidden" abilities that employers seek. The trick is to identify and successfully market them.
Learn more...Hot Trends for Job Seekers Is your resume "so five minutes ago"? While job-hunting tactics don't go in and out of style as fast as, say, Uggs or ponchos, they do change over time. Keeping up with new developments can help you stand out from the crowd and land a new position. Following are some trends to note.
Learn more...Today's Hottest Product? You! A job search is just like a sales process. You need to convince an employer that you have a product that is better than the others, worth the money and will pay off in the long run. That's why it is crucial to market yourself every step of the way. For a job seeker, this means that everything about you plays a role in building your professional image, from your first contact to the final handshake sealing the deal.
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Meet J.D., Senior Attorney, Platforms "As an attorney at Microsoft for the past seven years, I have provided primary legal support for several different parts of the Windows Group. Giving good advice and finding creative, innovative, and superior ways to solve business problems from a legal perspective is the heart of my job."
Learn more...Meet Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President, Real-Time Collaboration Business Unit As corporate vice president of the Real-Time Collaboration Group, Anoop Gupta leads Microsoft’s client-server-service efforts to provide real-time communication and collaboration solutions and platform components. Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Gupta was a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University for 11 years. His research at Stanford spanned computer architecture, operating systems, programming languages, simulation and performance debugging tools, and parallel applications.
Learn more...Meet Nick, Senior Developer Evangelist, Sales Marketing and Services Group "We provide a lot of support in the form of mentoring, education, and training, but we rely heavily on individual creativity and vision. I don't have anyone looking over my shoulder as I visit customers, and that's empowering."
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The National Society of Black Engineers Ranks Microsoft No. 2 in Top 50 Employers List For the second consecutive year, the National Society of Black Engineers (NBSE) named Microsoft the No. 2 employer in its Top 50 list. NSBE, with more than 10,000 members, is the largest student-managed organization in the country. The annual employer ranking is compiled from responses submitted by society members, including working professionals as well as college students working as interns. Criteria are career advancement opportunities, job security, work-life balance and internship opportunities for African-American engineers.
Learn More ...MSN Video Brings New York City Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration to Worldwide Audience Online Providing viewers with party coverage, live performances and a number of exclusive online entertainment appearances; real-time experience provided by as many as 26 cameras and multiple streams bringing six hours of broadband content directly from Times Square.
Learn More ...Forget that Diet: Microsoft Encourages Consumers to Resolve to be More Secure Online in 2006 Q and A: Amy Roberts of Microsoft’s Security Technology Unit discusses the “Protect Your PC in 2006” resolution and other Microsoft consumer-security efforts.
Learn More ...Microsoft's Gates Tops List of Most Admired Executives For the world's top business leaders, geek is chic this year. A worldwide survey of the most prominent corporate leaders conducted by Burson-Marsteller, a public relations and public affairs firm based in New York, showed that three of the top 10 most admired chief executives were in charge of well-known technology firms. And not surprisingly, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took the top spot in this year's survey.
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WM_IN: Microsoft Women in Technology From interns to vice presidents there are some amazing women who work at Microsoft, and we want to feature them on Channel 9. Charles Torre and Jennifer Ritzinger have started a new series featuring women at Microsoft who work in development, marketing, research, and evangelism who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. Meet these women at Microsoft, what makes them tick, and hear more about women and technology.
Learn More ...Preventing Internet Harm Unfortunately, criminals are very creative in finding new ways to use the Internet to deceive and harm consumers. One such tactic called “phishing” happens when criminals obtain personal financial information from consumers through seemingly legitimate online means. Microsoft is pursuing Internet crimes such as phishing with a multi-pronged approach. We are working with local banking authorities, the financial services industry, and law enforcement officials worldwide to track down and prosecute perpetrators.
Learn More ...High School Internship Program The Microsoft High School Internship program was established in 1991 as a way to encourage and empower underrepresented youth through summertime employment with large corporations. This experience exposes students to corporate culture and teaches them about the use of technology in the workplace. The long-term goal of the program is to track these students through college and to help them prepare for their future careers. At Microsoft, the internship program has become a pipeline for exposing underrepresented youth to technology and for encouraging them to consider careers in the high-tech industry.
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Being Microsoft CEO for One Day As part of the reality TVs show "Three Wishes," Kiyaan Vazirzadeh, a 10-year-old from Simi Valley, CA is able to realize his greatest wish.
Learn More ...Technology for People: Extending Digital Power to Everyone Right now, thousands of people around the world are learning something brand new. They are learning that they are grandparents for the first time. That volcanoes formed the earth's mountain ranges. That they have won the big contract. They are learning things that can alter the course of their lives.
Learn More ...BillG, Melinda, and Bono - Time's Persons of the Year The Good Samaritans – Melinda Gates, Bono and Bill Gates: three people on a global mission to end poverty, disease—and indifference.
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