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Help me think of a softball team name

Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:47 PM by HeatherLeigh
In June, we are playing MSN's HR team in softball and some of us were trying to think of funny team names. MSN can be something like "the search engines", but since our HR and Staffing team covers so many different corporate functions (ops, HR. finance, Read More...
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Server and Tools Networking Event in Boston

Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:51 PM by HeatherLeigh
I'm working on another event. I love working on these because our hiring groups actually get excited about them (yes, you read that right...they really get excited about recruiting events! I wouldn't kid about something like this). Anyway, I'll post the Read More...
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Landed.fm interview with Gerry Crispin

Posted Monday, March 28, 2005 2:26 PM by HeatherLeigh
Peter Clayton interviews Gerry Crispin on Landed.fm . If you are in recruiting and you don't know Gerry , you should get to know him. He's one of those people that always has something interesting to say (and I'm not just saying that because my name came Read More...
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Apprentice 9: If you have not referred to yourself as a "beauty queen", feel free to return to the suite

Posted Monday, March 28, 2005 12:54 PM by HeatherLeigh
You guessed it...the time has come. A momentary dip in my self esteem had me both watching the Apprentice this morning and recapping it right here. Seriously, I kind of feel some renewed interest in the show (that break came in handy) and kinship with Read More...
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Get Abstract

Posted Friday, March 25, 2005 5:11 PM by HeatherLeigh
I often wonder how people find the time to read business books. I can never get through all the things I need or want to read. At this very moment, I have 3 months worth of magazines stacked up next to my fire place. I'm trying to decide: entertaining Read More...
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Hip-hoppy and sick and wrong

Posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:12 AM by HeatherLeigh
I'm not a big holiday person, but given my musical taste, this is too funny ! Not to be confused with this. Sick and wonderful, huh? Read More...
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Jonas and my new digital camera

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 3:23 PM by HeatherLeigh
Nobody can tell me that Jonas isn't the cutest doggie ever! He's a good excuse to go home at a reasonable time, too! I bought a digital camera this weekend. Unfortunately discovered the red eye reduction feature after I took this picture but he's still Read More...
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Types of people we look for in marketing and finance

Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 2:11 PM by HeatherLeigh
Lately, I've been doing a lot of work to help further define what we are looking for in the marketing and finance spaces. Specifically, I'm working to define the "big buckets" of candidates we try to attract, not the kinds of roles that we hire them into. Read More...
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Moderating blog comments today

Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 12:25 PM by HeatherLeigh
While we get the spam under control. Just had a big blob of it hit this morning. Read More...
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Podcast on career management and job searching with Landed.fm

Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 11:15 AM by HeatherLeigh
I recently did a podcast interview with Dawn Fotopulos at Landed.fm. The interview content is primarily for job seekers (and people managing their career). Topics covered: -networking -building an effective resume...the future of resumes -how recruiters Read More...
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Seattle PI article on Suzan DelBene

Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 10:46 AM by HeatherLeigh
Here . Suzan is Corporate VP of Marketing in our Mobile and Embedded Devices Division. Read More...
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What I'll never do

Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 10:41 AM by HeatherLeigh
Two things that I will never ever do: this and this Read More...
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My perspective on "passive" candidates: most recruiters have it wrong.

Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 6:01 PM by HeatherLeigh
Anyone in the recruiting industry that subscribes to any staffing industry publications sees consistent discussion around active versus passive candidates (although technically, if they are passive, they are prospects, not candidates). Many people will Read More...
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Hot Job: Social Networking Marketing Manager

Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 5:15 PM by HeatherLeigh
Oh, I secretly want this job but I don't think I can have it ; ) (shhhhh...don't tell my manager). Anyway, I figured if you know about blogging and social networking and are a marketer, there's a decent chance you have been here (my blog) before (I may Read More...
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Fire bad, PhotoStory Good

Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 2:56 PM by HeatherLeigh
John Porcaro had a scary accident and has a good sense of humor. Only John would create a Photostory of his burn recovery (probably not for the very squeamish). Read More...
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Blogging is not the "big, new thing" in recruiting...relationships are

Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:27 PM by HeatherLeigh
I get calls from press and staffing industry leaders to do interviews or articles about blogging. In the staffing industry, like most others, practitioners are looking for the "big, new thing". Now that we are in the "Internet age" (is that an old term?), Read More...
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2005 Marketing Salary Survey

Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:18 AM by HeatherLeigh
Here's 2005's Aquent|AMA Marketing Salary Survey (don't freak out like I did....those "pictures" on the main page are not stills...wait til they blink at you! Seriously, stop looking at me!). Good info for those trying to benchmark their salary or considering Read More...
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One of my blog readers just got an offer from Microsoft!

Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:13 AM by HeatherLeigh
I'm not going to say who it is because that is his business and he can let us know if he likes and you can ask him all the questions you like about the process he went through and his new role, etc. He's a frequent commenter here and I (assuming he accepts Read More...
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Top ten things hiring managers can do to identify candidates

Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 10:39 AM by HeatherLeigh
One of the P&L Staffing Managers asked me for help on this topic in the past. It's funny how often hiring managers pass all candidate identification responsibility to recruiting and how often recruiters let that happen (we need to talk about partnership, Read More...
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Apprentice 8: I'm sick of this show and John is just sick

Posted Monday, March 14, 2005 6:22 PM by HeatherLeigh
I can't do it anymore. This episode is the one that put me over the edge. This week, I cannot recap the crudfest from beginning to end: it started with crud, it ended with crud. So, since I am not going to the effort of the full recap (I may feel differently Read More...
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Upcoming interviews and thinking about podcasting

Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:34 PM by HeatherLeigh
After linking to Mike Hall's podcast with Balz Wyss, I gave Mike a call to discuss podcasting in general (how difficult it is, etc.) and whether Mike would produce a podcast of an interview I am planning with someone in his organization. Mike gave me Read More...
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Spring in Seattle

Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:29 PM by HeatherLeigh
What the heck does Punxatawney Phil know...he's on the other side of the country. We are having an unusually early spring here. On Sunday it got darn near 70 degrees. Sometimes, when I start to feel sorry for people in chillier climates, I remember that Read More...
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Apprentice 7: Bring in the clowns...especially the angry ones

Posted Monday, March 07, 2005 7:29 PM by HeatherLeigh
Alternate title: "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, hate me because I'm delusional" Previously on the Apprentice...yes, we know. In the suite, Net Worth describes the bored room antics to Magna; which unfortunately involved the return of Audrey. Craig Read More...
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Podcast interview of Balz Wyss, Senior Product Manager in Mobile and Embedded Division

Posted Monday, March 07, 2005 4:16 PM by HeatherLeigh
I didn't have anything to do with this one , other than the fact that I recruited Balz to Microsoft (always nice to see folks you recruited doing awesome stuff). Mike Hall conducted the interview with Balz and they talk about VOIP. Read More...
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My radio interview on the graffiti episode

Posted Friday, March 04, 2005 10:28 AM by HeatherLeigh
Here's the link to my interview with Dawn and Peter at Landed.fm. The topic was the Apprentice graffiti episode. Read More...
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What a non-technical Microsoft employee looks like (alternate title: Heather sees if she can add pictures to blog posts)

Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 6:12 PM by HeatherLeigh
I'm experimenting with adding pictures to my posts. Don't laugh...I told you I wasn't technical! Also, not particularly photogenic but whatever...this is the best I got right now. Read More...
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Don't be alarmed

Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:50 PM by HeatherLeigh
Over the next week or 2, making changes to the blog. Nothing major (obviously, since my VCR is still flashing 12:00...OK, just kidding but you get the point). Read More...
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Changing Role of the CFO

Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:46 AM by HeatherLeigh
Strategy+Business Article on the change in the role of CFO...from head bean counter to business partner of the CEO. I suspect that the role had to evolve since technology is so heavily leveraged in finance operations. It's almost Darwinian. via BusinessPundit Read More...
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Shady Hiring Technique

Posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:55 AM by HeatherLeigh
Over on his blog, Ernie Booth shared a recent experience with a vendor company that initially said they were Microsoft, then said they were a "gold partner" to Microsoft. I spoke with Ernie last night to get details and checked with the folks that handle Read More...
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Bill Gates interview with Peter Jennings

Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:31 PM by HeatherLeigh
Here . Peter Jennings' phrasing of the technology questions seems a little odd to me (and trust me, I am no techie). It would be nice to see more traditional news anchors (if that is what they are called) bone up on the terminology relevant to such a Read More...
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Improving your online resume

Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:14 PM by HeatherLeigh
On MSN careers... 21 Ways to Improve your Online Resume . In case someone is going to ask me whether someone in our staffing department writes these articles...they all come from careerbuilder which is MSN's career channel partner. Anyway, the advice Read More...
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"Finding Trends in Customer Feedback"

Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:53 PM by HeatherLeigh
A couple weeks ago I posted about customer experience feedback via blogs . Today in our careers newsletter there's a link to an article on the tool some folks in our research group developed to analyze product feedback via online media (blogs, user groups, Read More...
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