Podcasts about interviews, resumes, and more

Posted Dec 17 2008 7:50 AM by the JobsBloggers
Jenna

Since I blog for Microsoft, I should likely hide my loyalty to the trendy music player with the trademark white earphones, but the truth is - I love it. And I love downloading podcasts - not just because they are free, but because they cover every topic imaginable. I load up on podcasts about travel, business, celebrity gossip, and of course knitting. But did all of you jobseekers know there are endless podcasts about interviewing? I'm not going to plug any specific ones, but any quick search will deliver you sessions on writing great resumes, interviewing and negotiating salaries.

Some of you longtime readers might remember our JobCasts which Gretchen recorded.  And of course, my man Shally Steckerl (recruiting research manager at Microsoft) has a bunch of them out there, too.  Our very own Jim Stroud also records a podcast for recruiters called the Recruiter's Lounge.

So load 'em up, play them on "shuffle" and you can brush up on your interviewing while listening to your favorite tunes.

Jenna

3 Comments

  • Daveedc said:

    I was contact by two (2) self described MS recruiter about 4 months ago; via email which seem authentic via ‘nslookup.’ We had some initial discussion about available jobs and went as far as proposing an interview with a software unit. However, the later never happen!??? I try contacting the recruiter again without any success, via emails only since I lost the phone number while switching cells. Was I dealing with some sort of scam or is this expected from the MS recruiting process.





    Just wondering,


    Daveed

  • eMSFTMVP2006 said:

    <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.emicrosoftinterview.com">http://www.emicrosoftinterview.com</a>

  • James S. Berry said:

    Im a 58 year old sales type software person, that in the past has taken softawre project from an idea on paper, through prototyping, did field testing with clients for their ideas the return to the products development manager with a scope of work document. The scope of work document stated all software requires in detail and on what hardware platform it must be test on.. I started programming formal on a maimframe in the early 1970's that code was tranlated to microcode for process's like the 4004, 6800 and bit-slice chips.


    My goal is to Be a Business Development Manager at Micro-Soft, but I wonder what resume format is required.





    As a Product Marketing Manager at Mitsubishi Electronics America,Inc. in Mount. Prospect, Il. I word buy hardware from Japan then have software developed in Sweden for the internation market as will as the US market, the pricing levels I did my self along with sales goals.





    I spent 7 years traveling for General Electric HQ 65 percent travel time. This job was to find companies that not special software that runs on redundtant processor for applications in railroad communcations.





    Both ConRail in the east and Burlington Northern in the Midwest allowed G.E. with my field experence to engineer and install a wired multi-drop communictions operating system that was fail safe and the code was an upgrade that was developed in the 1950's at 4 bits per second using only hardware, we copied that code into software and tranmittered it at 19,700 bits per second. This allowed


    the tracking computers at their HQ to control what is called


    side track and route switching..





    Worked with the Ohara Airport FAA engineering office to develop scope of work document so that they could upgrade old exist computer software such as field light controls , gate passes and other security systems that was a team effort on both sides. The Ohara Airport FAA office manages government radar site around the Midwest..





    Many of my other clients included Steel and Iron Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, Paper And Pulp Manufacturing, Flood and Water Level Tracking Systems and the Canning Manufacturing for company's like Coors, Coca-Cola..





    James S. Berry


    14528 Ivanhoe Drive


    Warren, Michigan 48088


    jamesberry48088@yahoo.com


    Would like any comments sent either in HTML format or Text..





    I recenting took classes at Baker College JavaScript and HTML..


    In the past at Triton College I taught micro-code development using flowchart concepts..





    Thank you in advance..

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