Wish I brought my digital camera today. My new office has a nice sunny window (morning sun...my favorite kind) with garbage dumpsters outside (how do you type that sound they make on game shows when you lose....wah-wah-wah-wahhhhhh). Where my office sits...

Some of you have asked about Jobster. Who better to hear it from than Jason Goldberg, the Chief Jobster, himself? Landed.fm audiocast here (not just for recruiters...this may help people think differently about the importance of networking yourself...

Last night, Jon Stewart was talking about home schooling (one word or two, I'm not sure, but I don't doubt that someone with a badge and a dictionary will tell me). Did I mention that I love me some Jon Stewart. I have a fantasy that he develops a new...

I never gave an update on the outcome of our softball game with MSN. I wanted to share pictures...you know, pictures of HR folks wearing athletic clothes and getting rained on...and I was procrastinating because of the outcome. Well, I have to admit that...

People make a big deal about work anniversaries here. I think it's partly because time passes so quickly and slowly. I still feel new and I feel like I have been here through so much; gotten so much done, changed a lot...changed my hair color. Six...

Here's the announcement for our invitational finance event (in Redmond). Feel free to contact me if you are interested! _____________________________________________________________________________________________[:)] Microsoft Finance Career...

Signs that you are growing up...buying your first home, deciding that you like your friends better when they stop trying to set you up on dates, doing stuff because it's good for you (shredded wheat, sun block, anything green and leafy...OK, bad example...

I've learned a new job skill. I may have had it before but it was dormant until I tool on such an externally visible role. It's e-mail management. I was kind of good at it before, but it had more to do with my elaborate network of folders and sub-folders...

In the Staffing space, this is the term we use to describe a spouse or partner of a Microsoft newly relocated hire. And very often, we hire the trailing spouse/partner as well. Or the person we hire is a trailing spouse/partner of someone who works somewhere...

I've been firing on all cylinders lately. Office move + fiscal year end + lots of nice weather (read: yard work)+ trying new things + mentoring our new intern (more about her later...she's fabulous). I naturally have a short attention span (did you already...

Here. Good info. Via the Social Networking Weblog

OK, you know I'm not much of a "rah! rah!" person, but you may have seen some of the work being done by our MapPoint Team on something they are calling Virtual Earth; which I think is totally cool. You can read more about it here at Chandu Thota's blog...

Last night, I pulled into my driveway and pressed my garage door clicker...nothing. Clicked again, as my next door neighbor watched from his driveway, appearing a little too amused at my frustration. Click, click, click...nada. Stepped out of the car...

Then check out what Ernie has to say here . I met Ernie through his blog and he met Jeff via Jeff's blog. And now Ernie works here. How cool is that? Also, Ernie walks you through is interview day experience (mad props to the interview team, especially...

Those darn people at Jobster are winning me over. I've been speaking with them for some time, but now they' figured out how to hook me...allowing me to publish jobs on my blog and to give all of you the ability to share my info without having to act as middle person...

We've talked a bit about making a career change. A reader contacted me to ask for resume advice and we got onto the topic of gaps in employment and how to address them on a resume. Some of you out there may have worked through the same issue and might have some advice to offer. And recruiters out there can chime in with feedback on how they perceive gaps in employment. Here's the reader's situation... ...

OK, don't laugh. I actually asked for it this time. For those of you that asked if we move offices as often as you've heard... here is your answer. Oh yeah, and here . I asked to be moved because my library office has been about as quiet as an amusement...

Article here. I've been here for six years and have seen some big changes in how we "do marketing". This is the first article I've seen that really sums up those changes. Flash back to 1999 and everything was about "customer satisfaction". Six years later...

Got an e-mail from one of my blog readers, let's call her M. She was one of the folks I had an e-mail conversation with about changing your career focus. Nice words from M...she appreciates the honestly, I appreciate the frustration of being on the other...

OMG....is it possible that recruitment blogging is actually a thing...or even a thang? Uh huh, sure is. Well, I've produced my first solo podcast that will be ready for posting on Monday. A little background... First, I told you I was thinking about...

Here. OK, so it's a little self-serving. I just met Peter in Las Vegas after speaking on community building at the Kennedy conference. But his newsletter is timely. I am about to produce (and by produce I mean try to get it right without doing a bunch...

Here. "Uh, why is the mainstream press so incredibly interested in this people-fired-for-blogging story?...If I were cynical and paranoid, I’d suspect that the media running these stories were frightened of something." Yeah, so they are making it scary...

NPR All Things Considered segment: College Graduates Welcomed by Job Market Back when I graduated from college, we had to write cover letters and print them out at Kinko's and take jobs we didn't like, just to pay the bills (remember the recession...

This is the hard part of my job. I have to, very often, tell people what they don't want to hear. Well, I don't absolutely have to but I feel like I have to. And I personally have to because I think it's important to be honest with people. So I really...

Sending good thoughts (and hopefully blogger eyeballs...any readers in Vancouver area?) to Dave Koch and his family . I hope the Dave is found, in good health, very soon.