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January 2007 - Posts

Living with a Recent College Graduate - Installment 3: Stalking Your Recruiter

Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:54 AM by JobsBlog
By Janelle Godfrey Thanks to all who have posted to my last few blogs – there have been some great discussions on there and I appreciate all who responded to me directly. Here’s the latest installment of life with “Charlie”, my younger brother who’s a Read More...
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Bill Gates on The Daily Show

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:31 AM by JobsBlog
By Elizabeth Hoogs Bill Gates on The Daily Show ? Did anyone else see it last night? To discuss today’s release of Vista, Gates joined host Jon Stewart in some playful banter about the operating system, its security, usability, and the F12 button. They Read More...
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Will you Show us your WOW?

Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 12:50 PM by JobsBlog
By Priya Priyadarshini What is WOW? No, it is not the World of Warcraft. Have you visited the Microsoft website lately? Vista and Office 2007 are all set to launch on Jan 30th worldwide, and in some countries it is already Jan 30th! We will start the Read More...
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Jobcast: Life as an Escalation Engineer

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 7:15 AM by JobsBlog
Not sure if you are aware of it, but there is a secret society on Microsoft's campus and they are called “Escalation Engineers.” When something goes wrong, somewhere a red phone blinks and rings and the call goes out to (insert dramatic music here) THE Read More...
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Meet Mona: From Egypt to Seattle

Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:05 PM by JobsBlog
By Priya Priyadarshini I’ve been silent on the blog for a while…I blame it on the fact that I was traveling for almost all of December and then came home only to find that there was no power. Tough hit on productivity, and the new year has been a busy Read More...
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Hong Kong Phooey

Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 7:33 AM by JobsBlog
How many of you remember Hong Kong Phooey ? That crime fighting cartoon dog of the 1970s with his side-kick detective cat? For those of you who might never have been introduced to Hong Kong Phooey, I will share with you the universal plot of the cartoon Read More...
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Living with A Recent College Grad – Installment 2: Your College GPA and You

Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:30 AM by JobsBlog
By Janelle Godfrey Welcome to the next installment of my trials and tribulations of life with "Charlie", my younger brother who's a recent college graduate and who's living with me while he searches for his first real job. Thanks to everyone who has sent Read More...
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Nerd in Space

Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 3:16 PM by JobsBlog
In case you ever wondered whatever happened to Charles Simyoni (designer of Microsoft Office)… and who hasn’t? Let me tell you, he's on his way to being the first “Nerd in Space.” Check out this article I found online (excerpt below): "On April 9, at Read More...
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The Candidate Source

Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 8:43 AM by JobsBlog
My six year old son turned to me yesterday and said, “Mom, can you go to Monster.com?” I’m not joking. I’m sure to a six year old the word “Monster.com” conjures up images of Frankenstein and Harry Potter, but I was heartbroken that the miracles of marketing Read More...
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Zune vs iPod and being Hip

Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:55 AM by JobsBlog
I need to briefly depart from the topic of interviewing to respond to the complaints and kudos I have received about my last two blog posts: namely my comments about the video iPod and the hiring practices of Google . Some readers wrote to commend me Read More...
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Living with A Recent College Grad – Installment 1: WORK IS WORK

Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 7:05 AM by JobsBlog
By Janelle Godfrey Just like some crazy new reality show where opposites are paired up and hilarity ensues, I have been spending the past four 4 months living with a recent college graduate. This college graduate happens to be my little brother, let’s Read More...
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The Hiring Algorithm

Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:42 PM by JobsBlog
Several readers have sent me the recent New York Times article about Google’s latest hiring practice of having applicants fill out an “ elaborate online survey that explores their attitudes, behavior, personality and biographical details going back to Read More...
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Top 10 of 2006

Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:15 PM by JobsBlog
Happy New Year! A big thank you to all of the loyal readers who put JobsBlog in the “Top 10” recruiting.com survey. I am also grateful to all of you who left comments to tell us what you loved and hated about this blog and what you wanted more of in 2007. Read More...
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