Desperate No More: Eva Longoria Engaged Are you freaking kidding me? Yeah, all us single gals are "desperate" until someone comes and rescues us. Gag. Really, one should expect more from the Associated Press.

When I heard that the news reported Seattle has gotten an inch of snow, I thought "big deal...they freak out over a little snow which will probably be gone when I get home". It's hard to care about snow when you are enjoying sunshine. When I travel...

Carolyn Kepcher joins Microsoft . Well, sort of.

I try not to talk too much about my passion for college football here because the urge to edit out comments from haters would be just too great for me to bear. We have an NCAA college football e-mail alias here where we all snark at each other (and you...

There's no fashion in hiking. You need proof? That's my dad and me hiking at Superstition Mountain on Thanksgiving morning. I thought my glasses/hat combo was pretty special.

Sad news for Microsoft. A construction accident that happened last week in Bellevue claimed the life of a bright young Microsoft attorney, Matthew Ammon , in his condo. I don't know Matthew and I doubt that his family will see this, but our hearts go...

You know I hate to do this. As I am in and out of the office from now through years end and I'm a total control freak unwilling to let anyone else act as blog administrator here (Hah! Like someone wants to!), and I'm seeing more blog spam, I'm going to...

THought I should let you all know that I have two contract opportunities available on my team in case you, or someone you know, is in the market for a contract recruiting stint at Microsoft. Also, by posting this, I am unburdening myself of some of the...

You think the interesting internal battle is good versus evil? I can't believe how much mental energy I have already burnt trying to decide if I log on while I take holiday time off. It's ridiculous. Having worked at Microsoft for the number of years...

I'm not sure I can justify this as an addition to my collection of coffee makers. Though I have to say, that finding Al Roker as unfunny as I do, I could consider this a morning annoyance avoidance device. I liked him better when he didn't try to be funny...

Here's a Businessweek article about Microsoft's clinical weight management program . You know those hours in front of the computer screen aren't making us any more fit. Many of you know that I struggled with weight problems in the past, not significant...

All recruiters may not be in the situation we are in, where we have hundreds upon hundreds of open positions posted at once. But even smaller companies may experience when candidate enthusiasm becomes too much of a good thing? Or is it ever too much?...

I thought this was interesting . Verbatims (is that one of those annoying, made up words?) of bloggers on why they do it. Some days I wake up and ask myself..why? WHY?

Good job offer advice from the Marketing Headhunter. I'd say something about a bird in the hand, but I think we already determined that I don't like to touch raw poultry. Anyway, I've had candidates decline our offer and then want to revisit. The hiring...

I know I have never been a fan of the functional resume...too much opportunity for things to be hidden. I want to know what you did, where and when. I don't mind a functional section at the front of the resume (though the straight-up chronological resume...

Recruiters...what kind of outside interests do you want to see on a resume? How do you feel about hobbies, religious affiliations, fraternities/sororities, travel, clubs, etc? What's the most unusual non-work-related thing you have seen listed on a...

Thought we could delve into the realm of the interview (we'll come back to resumes...I have more questions). One question I've heard asked before regards the dreaded question "What is your greatest weakness?". It can be seen as a "trick question" but...

Objective statements on resumes...a good idea or not so much? If you like them, tell us what you want to see.

This is really the first year I have noticed this but it's happened a couple times: When scheduling meetings around the holidays (let's take Thanksgiving for example), people assume that they can schedule right up to the date. My guess is that these...

Argggh! Thankfully the election is tomorrow...I cannot stand any more of these advertisements. What's worse is the phone calls with a taped statement from the candidate. If I stayed on the line long enough to find out who the candidates were, I would...

OK, I may be stacking these questions too close together but let's see what happens. This one's from Erich, the artist currently known as eRock: ...it seems very few recruiters read cover letters, is it really necessary to include one with your resume...

Meant to blog about this last week...just so darn busy. There was a TV advertisement that was running last week that was recommending that people give out sugar-free candies at Halloween. I forget who was running the ad. Probably some dental association...

Question courtesy of ChrisS (thanks Chris!)... What are common red flags on a resume? What will make you stop reading it?

One of my favorite things .

This has been bugging me for a while. The possessive word Is, which rhymes with "eyes" (as in Bill and Is relationship), is not a word. Someone please tell every participant in reality TV and talk shows because it's driving me nuts (and I already know...