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In this issue... |  | Fortune Magazine Ranks Microsoft #10 on America’s Most Admired Companies List Check out Microsoft's top 10 ranking on Fortune Magazine's recent Most Admired Companies list. | ||||||||||||
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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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Girl Power: Job Advice From Women CEOs The media has declared "Commander in Chief," ABC's series about a woman in the Oval Office, a breakthrough. Yet in other parts of the world, reality trumps fiction with Germany, Ireland, Finland, New Zealand, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Philippines all being led by female heads of state.
Learn more...Do You Have Today's Hottest Skill? Bilingual job candidates are in demand.
Learn more...Microsoft CRM Career Invitational in Mountain View, CA Microsoft CRM is coming to Mountain View, CA April 27-28, 2006 to meet and interview people for positions in CRM Development at our Redmond, WA campus. Microsoft CRM is quite simply the fastest and easiest way to add CRM capabilities to any organization that uses Microsoft Office or Outlook. Come join us to learn about the CRM development effort, see product demos, meet with hiring managers from the team, learn more about our technical career openings, and learn about relocating to the greater Seattle area.
Learn more...Set Realistic Schedules for Work or Job Searches Everyone seems to be overloaded these days. But managing your time can simplify your workday and help you find that next job. Here’s how.
Learn more...Blogs Emerge as Resource in Job Hunts You check the want ads. You network. But are you blogging? Job seekers in the know are reading employee blogs to find out about openings that aren't generally well-known. In between comments on their aging dogs or the sleeping habits of their newborns, bloggers do a lot of chitchatting about work-related issues that can be a gold mine of information for job hunters.
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Satya Nadella - Running the Dynamics Team Meet Satya Nadella, the corporate vice president of the Dynamics team, as he tells you what's up with Dynamics and what they are bringing out. Also, what makes a good acquisition and why Microsoft got into this space. These interviews give you a good look inside the Dynamics team (which spans three continents and have thousands of people).
Learn more...Jim Gray, Scientist, Engineer and Database Legend Meet Jim Gray, "Technical Fellow" in the Scaleable Servers Research Group (Sky Server, Terra Server) and manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC). Jim has been called a "giant" in the fields of database and transaction processing computer systems. In 1998, Jim was awarded the ACM’s prestigious A.M. Turing Award. Before joining Microsoft, Jim worked at Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)., Tandem Computers Inc., IBM Corp. and AT&T and he is the editor of the “Performance Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems,” and co-author of “Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques.”
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Upcoming and On-Demand Speeches from Microsoft Executives Watch Steve Ballmer introduce the People-Ready Business and see Bill Gates keynote the recent RSA Conference 2006.
Learn More ...Gates Sketches Out Vision for the Future Bill Gates sketched out a vision for the future last month in which a cell phone will become a "digital wallet," able to receive e-mail and even scan business cards, while computers and TVs will merge.
Learn More ...Racing King Rusty Wallace Takes to the Road for Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 It's not where you go, it's how you get there. The NASCAR veteran offers road tips for summer travelers, beginning with the right choice of trip-planning tools.
Learn More ...Executive Q&A: What Is a “People-Ready" Business? Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes discusses the company's focus on people as the core driver of business outcomes, and how that means helping businesses bridge the gap between their people and the technology required to realize better business performance.
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Kevin Johnson Discusses the Microsoft Platforms & Services Division’s New Executive Structure The new internal alignment of responsibilities streamlines roles and creates agility to fuel innovation.
Learn More ...Brown University, Microsoft Research Announce Opening of New Research Center on Pen-Centric Computing At a joint press conference last month, Brown University and Microsoft Research unveiled plans for the Microsoft Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing, which will promote and fund research aimed at improving pen-based operation of Tablet PCs, Pocket PCs, Palm Pilot personal digital assistants, electronic whiteboards and conventional desktop computers. The center is the first academic research program in the nation dedicated to pen-centric computing innovation.
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Microsoft Volunteers Free, Unlimited Technical Support to Licensees of European Commission’s Protocol Program The company also pledges work on additional technical documentation projects, adds on-site technical assistance.
Learn More ...Microsoft Targets Cybercriminals With Launch of Global Phishing Enforcement Initiative Microsoft to initiate over 100 legal actions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; company brings together law enforcement, governments and industries in worldwide fight against online fraud.
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