New Microsoft website for job seekers....and it's actually good

http://winbeta.org/

TrackBack — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:19:41 GMT

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Sushant Bhatia — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:35:05 GMT

Ahhhh...it requires flash! Oh No!!!

Quick someone get silverlight in there :-)

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HeatherLeigh — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:22:32 GMT

Yeah, the development process for the site pre-dated the Silverlight launch.

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William — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:29:32 GMT

Interesting! Very creative!

A couple of recommendations:

Going from <my World> to the official career page is quite a jolt user experience wise. It had me "running" back to <my World> to do more exploring, but not looking at the opportunities.

User experience when looking at blogs list/scroll... I went for the browser scroll, when there is this grey bar mid-page to slide up and down (confusing, not intuitive). Would recommend making the user experience consistent (and simple).

The BIGGEST mistake... where is your blog on the list? Who should we lobby for this change? 8~)

It's great to see the boundaries pushed to better articulate life in an organization to people on the outside!

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Noticias externas — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:48:22 GMT

I am just quoting below what has been put on One Louder Blog. Check out this nicely designed site View<

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Steve Boyko — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:16:53 GMT

"give a funky little peak behind the curtain"

Please, please - you PEEK behind a curtain, you reach the PEAK of the mountain, something can PIQUE your interest.

So many people use "peak" when they mean "peek".

Sorry, I had to rant.

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HeatherLeigh — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:18:33 GMT

Do you have any opinion to offer on the blog post other than correcting my spelling? Really, the spelling corrections are boring. Yeah, I spell stuff wrong sometimes. Sometimes it's a typo, sometimes it's the fault of spell check and sometimes I don't give a rip.

I'd rather talk about the content of the post than my spelling. I actually remember writing the post and trying to type peek, not that I need to justify it.

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Paul — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:02:03 GMT

Interesting idea, but it still felt over-produced. I just watched a handful to get a sense of what you are trying to portray.

The video that I would strongly recommend is Lisa Brummel. I was most skeptical of what kind of message would come from an SVP of HR, but she was impressive, and seemed more 'real' than the techie roundtables. If she was running the whole company, I think you'd be a stronger place.

Also, Blaise (Seadragon/Photosynth) seems to be very sincere/authentic and not trying to act for the camera -- disappointing that he is described as a cynic. (Whoever felt the need to add that editorial comment should be advised to edit it out -- I think that comment is more negative than any borderline cynicism he may express). I didn't see that at all. Just a hard core techie who loves what he does. Besides, no one who is smart enough to work at Microsoft needs to be told what type of person he is -- it's an insulting characterization, doesn't add value, and isn't necessary.