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Back in March, I had hosted on behalf of Microsoft and the WWESS Recruiting committee (this is was much before the last reorg ofcourse) The Annual Tepper Students @ Microsoft Day and thanx to my extended 2-part blog-hiatus the update is coming now! Oh
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Lisa Franklin is one of the few direct-MBA hires (Howard University) at WWESS and on the recuiting committee here. I asked her the following questions: What is your experience like? Was the ramp-up steep or not? Why pick to join Microsoft compared to
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The last time I looked at anything Hello Kitty it was in 1996-97 at the McDonald's-Hello Kitty Joint promotion where Hello Kitty eclipsed the brand partner, with thousands of people buying burgers and then throwing them away but keeping the Hello Kitty
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I get a few resumes and comments on joining the team through by blog every week - and the recruiting committee is super-passionate about continuing this pilot of blogging for this reason. One of the feedback was to profile more of our own recruiting committee
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Eve "The QueenBee" Psalti followed up on our MBTI offsite adventure with her own recommendation of "Rediscovering ourselves in a medieval way" with this online personality test. I was quite consistent with my ENTP rating that MBTI gave me and was called
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One of my new yet loyal readers - Bob "The Maniac" Keller has recently been raising some noise about his inability to brand himself successfully as Bob "More Cowbell" Keller and instead being called "the Maniac." So to make the rest of the readers aware
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As blogged earlier - we had an onsite-offsite yesterday and the offsite "fun event" was to participate in Donna's MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) exercise. Over 70 of us in the teams were subject to the lab-testing environment where at the end of it
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We are the largest team in Microsoft under a GM (do not quote me on it - but we are close to it). So when we have an onsite-offsite, it is quite the production, and a nightmare for our admin folk. Spoiled by a few of my managers - let me get to the "Crystallize
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Early this week Microsoft Enterprise Services had our Monte Carlo Night where the Social Committee (this time led by Scott Armstrong along with Jessica Zulfiqar) organized the Poker Tournament for our team here at MS. Oh by the way - What is He-Man doing
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In our series of "TeamMember Profiling" sponsored by the Recruiting Committee here at WorldWide Enterprise Support & Services (I had a special memo from our business manager Ken Durham that I was putting the ampersand on WWESS one word too early)
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Jenna Adorno from Microsoft JobsBlog quoted one of my comments on her post yesterday titled Transparency and agreed on my call for Transparency in Recruiting. That was a comment I wrote in response to her post asking candidates how long do they want to
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Yesterday - Glenn Pereira, my boss started our team meeting - with a cliched question - "So why do you come to work everyday..." This brought forth very cliched responses of "challenges" etc etc.... and some funnies like "My car is not yet paid off...."
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After a hyper-successful ping pong tournament last month for Halloween - guess what it's in store this monday? Its the MonteCarlo Nite. Oh what fun! The Initial Idea (No I do not smoke anything) was to have the following: (Yes we do talk in bulletpoints
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As sweet and nice that Nancy Apthrop, the Exec-Admin to Norm Judah (our CTO in the Worldwide Enterprise Services group at Microsoft reporting to Rick Devenuti) is - the Darkside of the force had gripped her strong late last Friday - during our office
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Ivan Joseph - talked to 5 Tepper MBAs selected for 2nd Rnd interviews today and answered some of their questions about the Microsoft recruiting process and other qns the students had. Some of the questions he wanted to the share the answers are on his
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