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In this issue... |  | Microsoft on Fortune's "100 Top MBA Employers" List Microsoft earns a top spot on Fortune's 2006 "100 Top MBA Employers" list. The list includes companies where MBA candidates say they would most like to work. | ||||||||||||
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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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Interview Blunders The interview is the most critical point in the job search process. While you might look great on paper, the real test starts when you get in front a hiring manager. You've got the skills, now you need to prove that you'll be a good fit with your future co-workers and company. And it's oh-so-easy to sabotage that much-coveted and highly-valuable face time.
Learn more...Managing Your Recruiter It’s not often a corporate recruiter will complement a candidate for how the candidate managed the interview process. Here’s a real life example of someone who wins a “gold star” for dealing with deadlines and offers from competing companies, to steer the recruiting process in some subtle and effective ways.
Learn more...Microsoft To Pony Up $30 Million To Bolster Channel Tech Talent Microsoft is taking on one of its channel's biggest problems: Increasing the talent pool of qualified tech professionals. For its next fiscal year starting July 1, the company has earmarked $30 million to underwrite training and certification of new tech specialists for its partner community, said Allison Watson, Microsoft's vice president of for company's worldwide partner and small business group.
Learn more...Seven Steps for Showing Your Worth on Your Resume From an employer's point of view, there is no greater predictor of success than past performance. To convince potential employers that you are the best candidate for the job, you must be able to clearly articulate and sell your accomplishments.
Learn more...Microsoft Ranks Among the Top 10 Best Workplaces in Europe The fourth annual list of 100 Best Workplaces in Europe was announced by the Great Place to Work® Institute Europe on May 17th at an award event in Berlin. The list was published in the Financial Times the next day. Microsoft ranks among the top 10 best workplaces in Finland (1), France (3), Italy (1), Netherlands (“Gold” group), Norway (1), Portugal (2), Spain (4), Sweden (1 among large organizations) and the UK (5). Microsoft was also listed as one of the top three workplaces within the IT and Telecommunication Sector and among the top five in the sub category of workplaces with 250 to 1000 employees.
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Q&A: Advancing the Windows Platform with Windows Server “Longhorn” Microsoft Senior Vice President Bob Muglia charts the direction for the next generation of innovative server technologies.
Learn more...Meet Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Entertainment and Devices eHome Division Joe Belfiore is responsible for development, business management and marketing of Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition and related devices, including Media Center Extender and the Media Center DVR. A huge consumer advocate, Belfiore believes the Media Center vision and mission is revolutionizing the way people think about and use personal computers, transforming PCs from mostly productivity devices to the primary entertainment hub for digital convergence in the home.
Learn more...Meet Bo Thiesson, Microsoft Researcher Bo’s work is primarily inspired by the fields of statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His recent work has focused on scalable learning algorithms, personalization for handwriting recognition, language modeling, time-series analysis, clustering, video-tooning, and smart text input methods.
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MSN Spaces Sees Record Traffic Last week Microsoft announced that its MSN Spaces service is the most widely used blogging product worldwide, according to data from research firm comScore Networks. Nearly 101 million unique visitors came to the service, more than double the traffic from last year. According to comScore, nearly one out of every seven Internet users visited an MSN Space last month.
Learn More ...Beyond Business Intelligence: Delivering a Comprehensive Approach to Enterprise Information Management Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, Bill Gates, recently emailed customers about how software innovations from Microsoft will enable organizations to provide employees with new tools and capabilities so they can more easily create, find, use and share business information to innovate, win customers and respond to changing markets and new opportunities.
Learn More ...MTV Networks Unveils URGE Digital Music Service on Microsoft’s New Windows Media Player 11 Platform MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc., and Microsoft Corp. have unveiled the public beta of URGE and the new Windows Media® Player 11 beta to create an immersive entertainment experience which offers elegant visual navigation, improved music services and device integration. The new service will compete with Apple iTunes and RealNetworks’ Rhapsody. For years, MTV sat on the sidelines while Apple, RealNetworks and others racked up sales of music downloads. Now the cable network group is entering the online music fray.
Learn More ...Microsoft WinHec 2006: Special Report Get the latest Windows Hardware Engineering Conference news from Seattle.
Learn More ...Power Toys for Visual Studio, IronRuby advance .Net . Net is getting boosts with diagnostic tools and a version of the Ruby programming language for Microsoft's application development platform.
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Behind The Code: Mark Zbikowski - From DOS 1.0 to Windows Vista Occasionally the office of the CTO, David Vaskevitch, sits down with some of Microsoft’s most influential technical employees to capture their stories. Instead of examining specific technologies, Behind the Code takes a closer look at the person, the career and what it takes to produce world-class software. In this case, meet Core File Services architect, Mark Zbikowski. Mark began his career at Microsoft in 1981, working on DOS 1.0 as a designer, coder and liaison with IBM. His quarter century long career has included significant involvement in OS/2, Cairo’s Object File System (OFS), and the NT File System (NTFS).
Learn More ...Microsoft Updates its Office of the Future In a very short period of time, innovations such as videoconferencing and instant messaging have changed from futuristic possibilities to accepted parts of the daily work routine. So what is next? Microsoft Corp.’s updated Center for Information Work (CIW) at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington showcases the company’s evolving vision for the future of information work along with the innovative productivity software advances that will make this vision real for people and organizations.
Learn More ...Winners Announced for Microsoft Live Labs Search RFP Microsoft Live Labs recently announced 12 winners of its Accelerating Search in Academic Research request for proposals (RFP). The RFP, which generated more than 180 applications from all over the world, was issued to discover and fund academic research that will improve Internet search technologies, and data mining, discovery and analysis.
Learn More ...More Cash for Employees Commuting to Work One of many commuting benefits Microsoft employees receive is the Microsoft Trip Reduction Incentive (TRIP). Employees can earn a $50 cash card if they walk, bike, carpool, vanpool or take the bus to work 15 days between May 1 and June 30, 2006. Interested in looking into ways you can cut the cost of your work commute? Use the Commuter Challenge Calculator to find out what your current solo commute could be costing you.
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Microsoft Alert: Indonesia Earthquake Relief Microsoft donated $40,000 and is taking other steps to help survivors of the recent earthquake in Indonesia. Individuals can help by donating to relief agencies. Microsoft will match donations from U.S.-based employees up to $12,000 per year.
Learn More ...Assistive Technology Puts Wounded Veteran Back at the Drawing Board A U.S. veteran who lost his hand and forearm in Iraq enlists assistive technology to make prosthetic devices better and more easily available worldwide.
Learn More ...Microsoft Teams Up With National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to Aid in National Child Protection Microsoft has announced that AMBER Alerts provided through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) AMBER Alert Secondary Distribution system will soon be offered through MSN Alerts, which are distributed to users via MSN Mobile, MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Mail, MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. Technology developed by Avanade and in partnership with Digonex Technologies Inc. will give millions of consumers in the U.S. using MSN and Windows Live access to timely bulletins of the most serious child-abduction cases.
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