Entries tagged 'meghan'
Preparing your online profile for employers
In a phone interview during my last job hunt, an interviewer (not at Microsoft) asked me if I had a Facebook account. Since we weren’t meeting in person, he wanted to put a face with the name.It made sense that he would want a visual, but my heart sunk when I thought about what he might see: “Am I holding a martini glass in my profile picture? Did I set my birthday party photos to private? Will he be able to access the outlandish comments friends post on my wall?”
What resume advice do you want to hear?
As we continue to work on our new careers site, we've come up with another topic that we'd like to hear your thoughts on: resume tips. This one is particularly important to us here at JobsBlog since resumes is one of our favorite subjects to blog about.
Skills for the future
Whether you're seeking employment or already have your dream job, it's always beneficial to learn new technical skills. Picking up knowledge that you can talk about in an interview and use on the job, can have a huge impact on an employer. But in a field that's constantly changing, how do you know which skills to hone in on? Here's an awesome list from TechRepublic's Justin James of the 10 skills developers will need in the next five years:
What do you want to know about career development?
As mentioned in previous blog posts, we’re working on a new Microsoft Careers site, and we’re looking for reader feedback to help make it the best it can be. We want to know what we can do to ease your online job search and how to best give you the information you want to know about working here.
25 random things about Microsoft
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After learning fun facts about our friends and colleagues via Facebook’s “25 things” phenomenon, we decided to jump on the bandwagon. Just like your friends, you probably thought you knew everything about us, but here are some of our favorite factoids that we wanted to share.