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JobCast: Pete Hauge, SDET in VC#

Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:48 PM by JobsBlog
Ok, gang … Without further ado, I now present the first real JobCast! Our first guest is Pete Hauge, a SDET in VC# . Pete is the “Box QA” for VC#, and he tells us a little bit about his job and team as well as his “after work” projects, including building Read More...
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Gretchen's week in review

Posted Friday, March 25, 2005 10:09 AM by JobsBlog
Ah, it’s Friday. Thank goodness. I’ve got a few tidbits for today so instead of a bunch of little snapshot posts, I thought I’d give you your daily dose of Gretchen in one swoop. My blogcast …. Thanks to a suggestion by Angus Logan , I plan to call this Read More...
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Introducing JobsBlogCasts!

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:43 PM by JobsBlog
That's right ... a new feature ... JobsBlogCast! I plan on interviewing Microsoft employees, hiring managers, recruiters ... and even applicants .... so you can hear first-hand about what it's like to work, hire, recruit, and interview at Microsoft. My Read More...
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External customers who?

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:58 PM by JobsBlog
Wow. A comment Adam Phillabaum just left on my last post totally sums up the impact corporate recruiters have on the bottom-line of the company: After I interviewed, and subsequently didn't get an offer at Google, the recruiter sent me a one line email Read More...
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Recruiter cold-calls ... Survery RESULTS!

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:18 PM by JobsBlog
To everyone who took my survey last week … thank you! It was not scientific by any means, but it did allow my team to better feel the pulse of our customers, and it will be the launching pad for more formal work. Below, I’ve summarized the results and Read More...
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You are saying that Microsoft recruiters don't just search their internal database?

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:41 AM by JobsBlog
Last week, I was speaking with a journalist from the Seattle Times . She’s writing a feature on resume writing, and I was giving her an example about how I might utilize key words when searching for resumes. In my example, I said, “Let’s say I’m out on Read More...
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How I got to Microsoft: Part 4

Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:46 PM by JobsBlog
Finally, my follow-up to Parts 1 , 2 , and 3 ! It was 10:00 am on Friday, April 14, 2000, and I was nervously sitting in the lobby of Building 19 … waiting for my first interviewer to descend the stairs. Soon, she arrived, and we went upstairs to her Read More...
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Greetings from Tennessee!

Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 5:34 PM by JobsBlog
Sorry I’ve been MIA this week. My week has been packed with meetings, and unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to blog. And as I write this, I am on a plane headed to Tennessee for the weekend. (Not posting this on the plane … but writing it from the Read More...
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Recruiter cold-calls ... Take this survey!

Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:59 PM by JobsBlog
As many of you know, one of the missions of my team here at Microsoft is to find and attract what we call “passive candidates” … that is, people who have not applied to Microsoft or, for that matter, have never expressed interest in looking for a new Read More...
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How I got to Microsoft: Part 3

Posted Sunday, March 13, 2005 11:22 AM by JobsBlog
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about my resume submission and phone screen experiences. Today, I’ll write about the morning of my in-person interviews. I phone screened with a recruiter in early March and then found out the results of that interview in mid-March. Read More...
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Happy birthday...or is it anniversary?

Posted Saturday, March 12, 2005 11:48 AM by JobsBlog
I am totally confused :) Anyway, hey everyone - long time no blog huh?! This is your friendly neighborhood Zoë tuning in to say hello. To commemorate the "birth" of the blog Gret asked me to send out a special post and I was of course willing to oblige. Read More...
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Bite of Advice: Un-"markup" your resume before sending it off

Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:25 AM by JobsBlog
The Suggestion Kitty says … If you use “Markup” in Word to track changes and edits to your resume or cover letter, but sure to remove all the comments before emailing a softcopy of your resume to potential employers. By default on my computer, Word opens Read More...
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Microsoft.com/careers – How fresh is the content?

Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:59 PM by JobsBlog
A comment on my previous entry once again made me realize that I often forget to blog about the littlest things. Like tidbits that offer insight into how our processes work … but info I wouldn’t necessarily think of sharing. So here’s the latest for you… Read More...
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Do job aggregators really aggregate it *all*?

Posted Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:57 PM by JobsBlog
All of /.’s hub-bub over the types of technical jobs available in the US got me thinking … not really about the types of technologies companies look for from applicants but more about the types of tools people use to pull this data. In this case, the Read More...
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Flash animation resumes *can* get you hired ... especially with the Office Graphics team!

Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:27 PM by JobsBlog
News flash (hee, hee … well, not really) ... Alexandre Gueniot (the guy with the cool flash animation resume ) has been hired by Microsoft! Robert Scoble blogged this bit of news last week , but being the good HR girl that I am, I wanted to get Alexandre’s Read More...
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Guest entry: Nate's first week as a Microsoft employee

Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:06 AM by JobsBlog
Nate Muller, a SDET <Software Design Engineer in Test> with the Portable Media Center group, just joined Microsoft last week. Welcome, Nate! Before Zoë left, she asked Nate if he would write about his interview experience. Since we’ve discussed Read More...
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Someone in VC# missed their calling ...

Posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 5:23 PM by JobsBlog
... And should actually be working on our Recruiting Marketing team. I love these posters ! <via Shaykat > gretchen Read More...
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How I got to Microsoft: Part 2

Posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:57 PM by JobsBlog
Yesterday, I wrote about why I applied to Microsoft . Today, I’ll write about my phone screen process. Today is actually a very special day to write about that interview because it was exactly five years ago today that my fateful phone screen occurred. Read More...
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How I got to Microsoft: Part 1

Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:32 PM by JobsBlog
Last week, I asked you to post links to articles you felt were the most helpful Microsoft application and interview accounts . Thanks for the links, and keep them coming. I’ll post a link on my sidebar so you can reference these stories later when you Read More...
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