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Last Friday the Annual Sunset cruise in Seattle had its 2006 version kick off at Pier 55 even grander than last yr! The Seattle Business School Alliance which organizes this every year gets about 320+ MBAs from the region to congregate on a cruise for
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Less than a month ago I had the opportunity to catch up with Jenna Adorno and she blogged about it too at Jobsblog which really was more a lunch to get to know the new face behind the Jobsblog than anything. Jenna shared her true passion for recruiting
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"So Does Microsoft sponsor H1B visas!?" Aaah - how many times have I heard that question asked of me. Jenna Adorno (the JobsBlog headhoncho) now that Gretchen is out doing her thang at JobSyntax has a small little write up on this issue .. and for everything
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Apart from the downtime and long hrs at work spent at work migrating across to Vista and back from XP there was one casualty this weekend. I lost one email during all the " pst chunking" A West Coast blog reader of mine (actually she was Heather' s but
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Talk about real-time info.... Office Server Recruiting Reception Wednesday, June 14, 2006, Building 31 Cafeteria 5-7PM This event is for external candidates and Microsofties.....bring your friends (or their resumes)! Please attend our Recruiting Reception
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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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O n March 15 th (Wednesday) about 10~12 MBA students from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon are coming down to Microsoft for a networking session. To my knowledge, we dont do this normally at Microsoft - neither did as a Tepper Student ever
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Remember my old story of how I started my Microsoft career with the whole networking session in Feb 2005??? Well that event is BACK! Microsoft's Server Marketing BMO Group is having their Silicon Valley Networking Event at our MountainView, CA office.
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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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"Write your resume in the holidays (NOW) And post them on the week of Superbowl" - wise words those -( and therefore not from me :) ) Heather Hamilton , our inhouse recruiting rockstar who went on a posting rampage yesterday - said that a year ago - and
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Shannon Huffman - the hyperactive Tuck grad (03) is organizing a Tuck talk with her profs coming over to Seattle. Authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble for an evening of holiday spirits, hor d'oevres and great conversation as we celebrate the publication
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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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Last week, Boston.com Business had an article about MBA pay jumps this year in double digits - 11% in Harvard to $174K means, $149K avg in Stanford up nearly 10% and about $150K in Tuck up 15%. Needless to say - you'd have to be superman to get that kind
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Ivan Joseph ( Chicago GSB MBA ) - the same ping-pong guy who put his job underfire 1 wk after joining our team by defeating HardeepW our General Manager at the Ping Pong Tournament in Rnd 1 ( Massacre would be a better word I hear - but hey English is
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