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Want to become a Microsoft Student Ambassador?

kevinbri — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 04:56:00 GMT

The Microsoft Student Ambassador program is an excellent program that provides students excited about technology (Microsoft, .NET, C#, VB.NET, Apple, Linux, FreeBSD, Java, PHP, etc...) a way to interact with Microsoft. The Student Ambassador program is in it's 4th year now looking to make a big step forward into next year. The program is looking for energetic, enthusiastic, and passionate students, if you fit these categories please apply. If you need a sponsor talk to a faculty member or reply to this post. The benefits of the program are excellent and the networking opportunities are tremendous. Unfortunately I cannot disclose the benefits for next year as all of this to my knowledge has yet to be finalized.

Check out the site and fill out the nomination form.

[Official Blurb]
Are you a leader in technical clubs on campus? Are you actively involved with your department’s faculty and fellow students? The Microsoft Student Ambassador award may be within your reach!

The program is now accepting nominations for the 2005-2006 academic year. To nominate yourself, click the “Nominate” button below and follow the required steps. Student Ambassadors come from a wide range of technical majors, although the most common are Computer Science, Computer or Software Engineering, IS/MIS, and related.

You will need to meet our basic eligibility criteria, and identify a sponsor who occupies one of the following three roles:

Faculty member at your institution
Prior or current Student Ambassador award recipient
Microsoft Corporation employee

The nomination calendar
March 7th – Nominations open
May 15th – Last day for new nominations
June 7th – 2005-2006 Microsoft Student Ambassador award recipients announced
September 1st – Official start of the program

Are you eligible?
To be considered for the Student Ambassador award you must be enrolled in an accredited four-year college or university located within the United States, for the 2005-2006 academic year. Only a limited number of awards will be granted.

--Eric (Grand Valley State University)

Get the word out about the program (Scoble, Scott Water, etc...) ! I want to see lots of links and hits on this post. Not trying to make the job hard for those doing the phone screening or anything, but I want to see us have an excellent pool of candidates to pull from this year. Let's see the community and blogosphere in action.

Tips on learning about Microsoft job role

kevinbri — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:08:00 GMT

Courtesy of Gretchen on the JobsBlog.

-Kevin (Microsoft)

Looking for some good students for INETA Academic

kevinbri — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:26:00 GMT

Andrew Flick is looking for student volunteers to help out with INETA's Academic effort. If you aren't familiar with INETA, it is the International .NET Association, a non-profit group dedicated to helping make developer user groups focused on .NET successful around the world. INETA's Academic committee focuses on helping out student groups on campus, and they are doing some very cool things. Check it out!

-Kevin (Microsoft)

College and High School internships at Microsoft

kevinbri — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:57:00 GMT

Gretchen from Microsoft Recruiting briefly outlines some links to Microsoft's college and high school internships. We do have high school summer internships, but only for students who already live in the Puget Sound (in Washington State, USA) area. Cool opportunity to get a head start on your career in the software business!

-Kevin (Microsoft)

Creator of .TEXT engine is looking for a few good students in the NY/NJ area

kevinbri — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:55:00 GMT

Scott Watermasysk created .TEXT (the blog engine this blog runs on), works now with Rob Howard over at Telligent Systems, and also works with INETA Academic. He's looking for a few students in the NY/NJ/PA area to get involved on a .NET community project.

-Kevin (Microsoft)

Infragistics Is Looking for GREAT Students

kevinbri — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:50:00 GMT

Infragistics, Inc. is currently seeking bright, self-motivated team players for a variety of open positions!
Infragistics is the market leader in providing a broad range of presentation layer development tools and services for building applications utilizing Microsoft .NET, COM, and Java environments. Over the past 15 years, Infragistics has received over 220 product awards and industry vendor of the year awards from market-leading publications and resellers. Infragistics' diverse product line for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Tablet PC, COM, and Java environments are used worldwide in nearly every Fortune 2000 Company and by 200,000 independent developers and consultants.

Our environment is casual, jeans and sneakers (or shorts and flip flops in the summer). All of our technical positions are eligible for a Microsoft certification program.

For information regarding the roles currently open, please see below.

Corporate Content Driver

Continually edit and generate new content for Infragistics.com. Additional responsibilities are comprised of working with the Directors of Marketing, Sales and Evangelism to identify opportunities, gather information, and create error free documents including but not limited to: business value & technical white papers, case study documents, technical articles, email newsletters, product brochures, sales letters, and various collateral material.
Proficient programming skills in C# .NET, ASP.NET, as well as the ability to demonstrate a clear understanding of one or more of the following : JavaScript, Java, COM, VB.NET

Evangelist

Be very technically savvy, and have excellent .NET knowledge in C# and Visual Basic .NET (MVP preferred)
Previous MCT - Microsoft Certified Trainer - or training capability preferred
Present at Conferences, Trade Shows and User Groups on .NET technologies or Infragistics technologies

Documentation Specialist

Be able to write simple C# and/or Visual Basic .NET applications
Be able to read and decipher C# and/or Visual Basic .NET applications
Writing technical documentation on Infragistics products

Developer Support
Knowledge, ability and desire to learn/apply MORE on any of the following (listed in order of importance): C#, VB.NET, VB6, VC++, Web dev (ASP.NET, ASP, XML, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML). Client- and server-side component methodology.

Learn our presentation-layer elements inside and out - through source code and within applications - from planning/beta to release and beyond. Troubleshoot customer questions (via phone and email), create sample apps, QA testing, edit/write KB articles, juggle the latest languages/programming environments (and, if you can, write quality technical articles. We can even get you published!)

Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance Analyst with software development skills needed. This position requires the ability to learn quickly, effectively multi-task and write code to test our presentation layer components. Utilize your knowledge of Quality Assurance methods to create test cases and design test applications based on use cases to exercise our components

2+ years experience coding in C#.NET, ASP.NET, as well as one or more of the following: JavaScript, Java, VB6, VC++, COM, DHTML, XML, VB.NET.
A basic understanding of QA processes and methods
Hands-on experience with short software development product cycles
Strong analytical, problem identification/solving, reporting, and communications skills.
BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent required.

If you are interested in one of the aforementioned positions, please forward your resume (Word Doc ONLY) to recruiter@infragistics.com . Please include the position of interest and UNIVERSITY in the subject line. Those who are potentially qualified will be contacted.

--Eric (Grand Valley State University)

Why are manhole covers round?

kevinbri — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:15:00 GMT

Thomas Nguyen, a Microsoft Student Ambassador, passed along a good site with interview questions. How Would You Move Mount Fuji? by William Poundstone is a good book if you are interested in Microsoft style puzzle questions. How do you prepare for interviews?

-James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)

Where to work after college...

kevinbri — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:48:00 GMT

According to this article found on Microsoft PressPass it appears that U.S. undergraduate students would most like to work for Microsoft.

Where do you want to work and if at Microsoft for which product team?

--Eric (Grand Valley State University)

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