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Exploring the fine line between clever and stupid. Heather Hamilton is a Staffing Manager and Microsoft Employee Evangelist.
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2011 11
- Heather Hamilton has left the building!
- The moment between photo and video...
- The "War for Talent" is status quo.
- Resume funkaliciousness...I like pink.
- If I could do it all again, I'd do something different. But it still wouldn't be that.
- The threat of the false positive by way of stupid pet tricks
- Holey Resume!
- Yer hired!
- Now hiring, until you decide to get the band back together
- Lurker wrongness
- Beep...beep...beep
2010 89
- Intense wisdom from my first week of blogging
- Metrics bite, content rules
- Sustainability...
- Growing pains
- Marketing awesomesauce
- Trapeze progress
- Now this is where you have to get out of the binary thinking in your head
- Many Annoyed by Bad Cell Phone Etiquette
- Oh how I wish...
- This survey brought to you by Twitter
- Is the tech industry just getting weirder and weirder?
- LG Quantum
- Sometimes a salary bump is about something else
- Microsoft opening certification training center in Baghdad
- This is the part where I decide if I can be a "casual gamer"
- Can Google Cause a Re-count?
- Marie Antoinette?
- And this is South Lake Union!
- Tell me if this is ironic, unfortunate or if I am totally nuts
- On the occassion of hearing one too many complaints, she complains
- Speaking of talking about salary...
- If you talk about your salary in the interview...
- Fake person brand
- The Search Engine of Mostly Wrong-ness
- Most annoying marketers (brands, not people)
- Hot-hot hot college majors for technology
- Virtualization win
- I'm not saying you are a lying cheapskate
- I hate to do this but...(I'm lying, I don't hate to do this)
- Movies as PR
- The House Advantage
- Microsoft Mobile Games Studio
- The "real" you...
- Getting closer to password security
- Form follows function
- Look at your grades. Now look at mine.
- The part where my head explodes (not "literally")
- 50 Smartest People
- Corporate Social Media Policies: More is better or not so much?
- Part 2 of Kara Swisher's Interview on the Microsoft!/Yahoo! Integration
- Understanding the Microsoft-Yahoo! Alliance
- I think someone might have to come up with a new word for "retirement"
- Boring work meetings meet beautiful design
- I like what I am hearing about Bing!
- Project Natal now Kinect; still awesome.
- Microsoft donates $100K to gulf clean up. Stephen Colberts ears still crooked.
- People have clearly run out of things to protest
- If a bubble pops and there's nobody there to hear it, does it really make a sound?
- The resume is an introduction, not an interview
- Failure: learn or forget?
- The demise of MySpace and Palm
- To Gizmodo
- Trapeze stunts
- How sick is "sick enough"
- But you'd be so much more attractive if you had a Windows 7 Phone
- I work at Microsoft
- Teen Hacker
- A quiz that doesn't provide the answers at the end...
- LinkedIn user, go back and try again using your smart-person voice
- Teenagers: friend your mom at your own peril
- Trendster job title: Ninja. Unlike.
- How much is "not enough" these days?
- Microsoft Women to Watch: Julie Larson-Green
- Facebook, whining and having a sense of humor
- The part where I acknowledge a minor obsession with a particular snack food
- Something about pen and paper
- The design guy behind the Windows Phone 7
- Diversity data holdouts and what some of the biggest silicon valley companies don't want you to know
- As suspected, David Lee Roth is a business genius.
- Intensity, achievement, ridiculousness and villainry on The Amazing Race
- Ugly is the new pretty
- Managing your social media
- Is this abra cadabra business creepy or is it just me?
- I won't be making it into the office today...(cough, cough)
- Uncluttering at work...
- The possibility of not getting a job because of those jello shots
- My mouth is open while you are cleaning my teeth, please make yours closed
- Decluttering, Act 3...the hard drive and the scanner
- Decluttering (Act 1, Act 2)
- I have to admit, I am not sure this is a good idea.
- You drop food on the floor
- Inspiring manifesto
- Meet Marko, a 9 year old IT Administrator
- Only buy this if you are planning on sleeping alone...
- And while we are taking it to competitors today
- Can't we just let Barbie do what she did before? What did she do again?
- One day. One conference room. One chair. Too many slides.
- The diet for stupid people
- Sign me up and make mine a double
2009 68
- Who will bring the presents if Santa dies?
- Only one vice per season, please
- Greatest hits: interview prep
- Finding recruiters and stalking them like a pro
- How does an annulment work?
- Two Louder?
- Using LinkedIn for your Job Search
- Michael Jackson, the Stock Market and Swine Flu, Oh my!
- In-flight editorial is totally hot and covered with cooties
- Navel gazing versus observing on Twitter
- Up for one, down for two
- Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
- "The camera changed the way we behaved"
- The 24 year old that designed the Windows 7 screen
- Arrington, please
- Enough with the stickers already!
- Windows 7 Shazam!
- 5K
- Regretful. But it's handmade!
- Working with Headhunters
- What's the difference between a facebook status and a Twitter status?
- To have and to have not
- Resume clutter...ditch it!
- Sometimes, when something looks like a fizzy scoop, it totally isn't.
- Our flash mob is mobbier than your flash mob
- Google gets their clams out of cans
- A study in customer service or lack thereof
- We are all getting dumber, one task at a time.
- He who has the largest external talent pool to fish from wins
- We are totally a search engine company.
- Worthy of the effort it took to can them?
- Evaluating Career Opportunities Redux
- To be verbed or not to be verbed.
- Today in "what's your talent..."
- Bill Gates' brain equals forty-three non-Gates brains
- Enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think about me?
- Ooh, I love Chicago, but...
- Ethical yoga: lead with your gut.
- As you gather for your awkward family 4th of July
- Counter intuitively, working from home is for the extroverts
- Sometimes fear is good, especially when it's on the other guy
- Things to like about jury duty...
- Creating my own synchronicity
- Only in the Pacific Northwest...
- Obama likes us....he really, really likes us.
- And now for some humor...
- Open thread for job search questions
- I'm OK...
- Tastes like chicken...
- Flying to Vegas...with a beat
- Apparent spontaneous awesomeness
- I've given up hope of trusting my network
- Have a nice, media-free day!
- I prefer to see my 401(k) as half-full
- Saint Patricks Day Haiku
- File your complaints here. Can't see where I am pointing? Good!
- The point at which we all get fed up with "following my heart" becoming the excuse of the new millenium
- Potty Fees
- Please don't break up with me
- Career Advice from Gary Flake, Founder of Microsoft's LiveLabs
- Enjoy it, kid
- Smells like escapism
- The challenge, if you choose to accept it
- Slacker...me
- Cranking up your neurobiology
- File under: "fact is stranger than fiction"
- Job well done, Sully and crew!
- The good thing about 2008 is that it leads to 2009
2008 141
- Homebound: an exercise in creativity
- "Laid off and looking"
- So the fact that my dad sent this to me means?
- Reader participation: If everyone else likes it, why can't I?
- Feeling 1986
- tags: couch jumper, what's your talent?, fake celebrities, people not to ask for advice, quickie weddings, bad MTV shows, bad MTV show aftershows
- New Online Services Group head announced last week
- Five best rock songs of all time
- Reader participation
- Hey cat, uh, enthusiasts
- You will want the next minute and a half back...
- Admit it:
- Black Friday and Cyber Monday...
- OK, that was nuts
- The appliest place on earth
- My comfort zone definitely does not include mayonnaise
- Wow...the end is near.
- I've stopped dating guys with cats
- File under "disturbing for the holidays"
- How to answer the uncomfortable resume question "why did you leave this employer?" when the decision wasn't exactly yours
- Solving the mysteries of your youth
- The state of the economy and what I get paid to do
- Good stuff #2: Batter Blaster (and it's organic!)
- Mmmm, fall!
- Seinfeld
- Weekend clumsiness
- Remember
- Microsoft technologies at the political conventions
- If I was waiting to blog when I become less busy, it ain't gonna happen
- Back from my "staycation"
- Make a pancake
- I know where they hide the good stuff
- The earth may have fallen off its axis
- OMG blackout shades
- Randy Pausch Dies
- Crafty
- Creative insomnia solutions
- So what is my actual job, you ask?
- The paradox of internet shopping
- When brainy college students around the world get green
- Tuned In
- If your grandma had a radio show...
- This is that stupid thing you are going to need this year.
- Saved from blog bleh
- What happens in Cambridge (whether or not it really stays in Cambridge)
- Want it? Need it? Gotta get it?
- June 28, 1999
- Marketing Hiring Event in Austin
- Bathroom buddies
- Back to blogging soon
- "Career Woman"
- Once? There was a sales on pots?
- One of my friends...
- Future Peonies of America Club
- I'm encouraging you to complain about our careers site. This is not a trick.
- Busy Saturday
- Now with 73% more photographic goodness
- Blogging with Style
- Learning from Fashion
- Sucker
- Don't do this!
- Where kitsch meets gawd awful...
- Nifty (link dump)
- Memorial Day
- Scroll bar...the opposite amount of fun as a sports bar
- We are getting greener
- I'm getting a Dell
- Warning: Single Gal in the Neighborhood
- OK, so he's a little felon
- Helping me resist the urge...
- Heather: 27% happier
- Juicing cows
- You know you have been working from home too long when...
- Telecommuting losing it's appeal?
- From Harvey Danger to Program Manager
- Oprah is jumping the shark
- Bridge Climb Photos
- Last notes from the airport
- Australia Travel Log: Day Eight
- Australia Travel Log: Day Seven
- Rock Out
- Australia Travel Log: Day Two
- Australia Travel Blog: Day One, hour one
- I have seen the future...
- I love it when these guys talk about me.
- Would you wear it?
- Simplifying, uncluttering and clearing things out
- Sorry, folks, you still need a resume
- The Challenge: Emptying My Inbox
- Awareness
- This should come with some kind of mood altering substance
- What is up with these facebook people?
- Looking for info: blogging in Asia and Australia
- My blog is a pre-schooler
- What does Irony Taste Like?
- Bill Gates Joins LinkedIn
- My friends are cooler than your friends
- troubling...
- Still sick...jeez
- You've gotta love the Seattle spirit
- Looking for Dim Sum
- Gary Coleman
- Just sick enough
- It's possible
- Evaluating Career Opportunities: It’s Not Just About the Numbers
- Like a dream come true
- Celebrity Apprentice....sorry
- Men, women and competition
- Eating at Microsoft
- I watched the Super Bowl Ads so You Don't Have To
- How come so funny?
- Twenty Questions
- Economists turn college football into something really geeky
- Third Place is You're Fired
- The Small Business Show
- Marketing Recruiting Event in the Bay Area Next Week
- Next time you are on a boring conference call...
- Isn't it weird...
- Starbucks and the $1 cup of coffee
- For Celebrity Apprentice Lovers...
- Marketing plus potty humor
- Is Microsoft getting it's own "Easy Button?"
- Flip-flops and iPods and Trophies, Oh My!
- An Analysis of Social Networking Sites
- Depressed Today?
- Executive Recruiting Researcher Role
- When a man loves a woman
- Caucus
- Random
- Whoah...Seattle Storm!
- Mozilla lays an egg...
- Bill's Last Day
- Ow
- You Know You Have Been in HR Too Long When...
- This is what happens after the holidays
- Sick of hearing about Scoble
- Missed marketing opportunity
- Getting a "facebook strategy"
- Living and Dying by metrics in new media marketing
- Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper on New Years' Eve
- Writing effective job postings
2007 150
- Scaring a kid on Christmas Day...
- Speaking of movies...
- Here comes another bubble
- Horrible movie
- Sarcastic humor disguised as insanity
- Here's the part where I act like a corporate wonk
- If I seem distracted...
- What to do during your holiday down time? Polish up your resume.
- A top ranked career blog? This one?
- Elf Yourself
- Paperwork
- BCS...who's in?
- Just say no
- Hot spots in and around Redmond
- It's like all my little girl dreams coming true at once
- How do you tell a 6 year old her cat died?
- Don't you wish you were this cool?
- Companeee Namez
- Single Technology Company Seeks
- Dear Blog
- Contextual weirdness
- 24 Hours in Seattle
- Help Find Kyle
- Who did this?
- It's like your own snarky little Microsoft news feed
- Another Restaurant I Love
- Microsoft and Office Space
- Did you know we have a careers newsletter?
- A Lot Like You (and Me), Northwesterner
- Thanks and I'm back
- Roughest 6 months
- New Microsoft website for job seekers....and it's actually good
- I wish I would have known I invented this before I went back for my reunion.
- As if you haven't been searching for Halloween stuff online
- Best commercial evah!
- Microsoft has an orchestra?
- What do we call this newish marketing?
- Love this: periodic table of marketing
- Never vacation a day in your life
- Blue Monster
- Cricket players are the cleanest players of any sport
- Microsoft and Seattle
- Unlimited time off with a side order of guilt
- What if people made comments like this when you die?
- The etiquette of laptops in meetings
- A thousand cranes for Scott
- Resume writing 101
- Marketing the Microsoft India Development Center
- Who was the first person....
- "Professionals typically resort to unconventional tactics after bouts of rejection"
- Taking the recruiting blog conversation mainstream
- Unranking the nations universities
- Enough
- Just like 1985
- Tim's Tips: Resume Keyword Relevancy
- Disclaimer
- Huge thanks
- Incoming! New blog feature
- Fashion at the Office
- The coolest name at Microsoft
- Good to Great
- Interns at Microsoft
- Resume SEO Tips Regarding Company Names
- And you thought the small-talk conversation at the beginning of your job interview was awkward?
- Finding Jim Gray
- Microsoft Product Naming
- Wobbly
- I don't get it, but it's cute
- It's about time...
- Eliminating keyboard funk
- Things that start with "v"
- Hey Advertisers, I'm out of here
- I understand.
- Seattle's Most Fashionable Man is, Unexpectedly, a Microsoft Employee
- We like to do things differently here in the Seattle area
- Need one or more Microsoft volunteers to tell us about the Microsoft Picnic.
- Windows Vista Hologram Mystery Solved
- No wonder I am not a math genius
- How to get hired if you are the best
- Peet's Straight-up
- Fun team events in the Redmond/Seattle area?
- Microsoft Art Collection
- Bill Gates returns to Harvard for honorary degree
- Nintendo's 90%
- Subliminal
- Senior Research Manager, Zune (200098)
- Head Copywriter, Zune (183782)
- FrontEdge User Interface Designer (186543)
- FrontEDGE Senior Interaction Designer, Zune (185885)
- Hardware Bus Dev Manager, Zune (186544)
- Bill Gates predicts the future from the past
- For all you know the guy who's responsible for getting rid of all the pig knuckles just broke up with his girlfriend
- Courageous
- And, speaking of telling your story with humor and humanity...
- Change the world or go home
- How did I miss this?
- Dilemma of courtesy
- People will pay you more if they know what to expect
- Interns create game for XBox 360 and questions about Second Life
- Are commentary and advertising incompatable?
- Speaking of humor...
- Getting better at being funny
- Pink Love and Music
- It's so hard not to pun
- Because the numbers don't lie
- In an effort to explain the name of my blog
- This totally happens at my house too
- So I know this guy at Microsoft...
- Wost day of my life....
- Even less like my headshot
- Deeper meaning
- I'm being manipulated by the media into rational behavior
- Vendors and conferences and flipping the funnel
- Take as much time off as you want
- Tape worms can be fun....
- We interrupt this broadcast for more news of the obvious
- A little disconcerting
- If you don't have time to tell me what you are looking for, I don't have time to recruit for you
- Madlibs for lazy bloggers
- Let's just deal with the fact that fast food is not good for you, shall we?
- Exactly what you think it's going to be
- I did it.
- I prefer that you predict the end of the world on a Monday, not a Friday
- Be picky about where you park
- Future Microsoft employee delivered at 65 MPH
- Last blast? Get a grip
- Why is the MBA important?
- Dynamics Platform Technical Evangelist
- jetBlue
- Daylight Savings Time and your SmartPhone
- The caveman's having a party and you are early
- The New Normal
- Using contests for good
- Blogging is an art, not a science
- Chicago coolness...Go Bears!
- Speaking of Windows Vista Advertising and Mac ads
- Microsoft not participating in Superbowl advertising
- Darn you, clocky
- BillG on the Daily Show last night
- Only "urgent" customer service issues addressed? What? You aren't kidding?
- Lessons from The Apprentice
- Mustaches invade blogosphere
- Playing favorites with Recruiting Tools
- Search often and tell your friends
- Snow days = hunker down and get stuff done days
- Tragically unhip. And you?
- It's going to snow and I am pretty sure there is some weird planetary stuff going on
- What I think about The Apprentice...
- Taking deep breaths
- There's nothing like a fresh start
2006 231
- No more celebrating...I need rest!
- Five things you don't know about me
- Expecting power...
- Brief glimmer of normalcy
- Update: I'm alright
- On a dark and stormy night
- Lest I forget where I fall in the pecking order
- Launching a Career with your Blog
- So human...
- Is it too late to give thanks?
- Podcast interview with Scott Pitasky, Microsoft's Staffing Leader
- Hero
- This is what passes for advice these days
- Its 7:30 AM and there's jackhammering
- Got stink?
- My key to holiday success
- How many voice mail messages is too many?
- I knew she was one of us
- In my element...
- One pair of hiking boots used twice in seven years
- Matthew Ammon
- Two contract opportunities available on my team
- As much as I'd like to avoid Al Roker...
- You too can be a big loser
- Recruiter Question #8: So many positions, so little time, so many opportunities to hit the "apply" button
- Why people blog
- Job offer advice
- Recruiter Question #7: Chronological or functional?
- Recruiter Question #6: Outside interests
- Recruiter question #5: What do you want from me?
- Recruiter question #4: Objective statements
- Single people celebrate holidays too
- I'm so sick of the political ads!
- Recruiter Question #3: Cover Letters
- Taking the fun out of Halloween
- Recruiter Question #2: Resume Red Flags
- Seattle-ites....25 for $25 is back again
- It depends on what your definition of "is" is
- Recruiter Question #1: What catches your eye on a resume?
- Something new...
- One more entry in the category "truth is stranger than fiction"
- How I know that Abercrombie doesn't want my business...
- Only enough room in my heart for one dog...
- At once disturbing and fabulous
- My take on options
- Trying not to lose vacation days
- Commuter-friendly workplaces
- Me and Stephen Hawking, We're Like This
- The exploding video resume
- Dress like your favorite holiday
- And Whole Foods Didn't Even Know I am a Blogger
- Wherein I make a complete hypocrite of myself
- Employee experience changes at Microsoft
- To hug or not to hug?
- I joined the Cafeteria Tour
- Note to people that keep calling and hanging up before it goes to voice mail
- "Tantrums and curses can get you places!"
- Peter Clayton interviews me for Total Picture Radio
- TheLadders hires tall people
- "The more people you know, the luckier you will be"
- I'm finally understood...
- 51% of the population knows what a GWP is... should all marketers?
- tod's first impressions of Zune
- I'm back and I'm exhausted
- Blogs are online balloons
- Because you want the drinking end of the bottle to come as close to sidewalk funk as possible
- Air travel isn't as fun as it used to be
- When does a blog have an effect opposite of that which was intended
- Things you should never say to a recruiter, part 3
- I made you...now I can take it all away
- Oopsy, Starbucks
- Coffee, Swiffers, "good sweats" and understanding your target market segment (when it's me)
- Things you should know but aren't always brave enough to admit that you don't
- Make it bigger but spend less time
- Subscription only articles for free with Congoo
- Incoming Freshmen
- 2006 Marketing Salary Survey
- Protecting your brand name
- And speaking of proof
- Proof that we can all be superstars
- I'm Blog-Jamming!
- Best Movie Marketing Ever
- Wanting access to my network is different than wanting to be in my network
- Things you should never say to a recruiter, part 2
- Mind the Gap
- Apple says "Don't blog this"
- It's all about the service
- Free Microsoft Software
- And what did you expect?
- I knew what I was doing when I did it and I did it anyway
- Things you should never say to a recruiter, part one...
- Zip it slacker boy
- Finally, an international launch page
- Working It
- Technical Documentation Weirdness
- Finishing up my running program
- Sorry...
- If you are thinking about talking to me about Web 2.0, please don't
- Be good, be memorable or be gone
- Some people should not use the Internets
- My Big Fat Polish Midwestern Family Reunion
- Low tech but brilliant...
- I know you are but what am I?
- Real Men of Genius
- You, you, you ought to know
- I'm a runner....almost
- I..don't...get it
- I'm flip-flopping on flip-flops
- Rock Star: Supernova
- Career Networking Event in Redmond, WA
- One customer, one experience
- The career pre-nup.What would you include?
- You can work on an award winning marketing team....literally
- Corporate Initiatives Partner Manager
- Research Manager - Worldwide Public Sector and Worldwide Licensing and Pricing
- Research Manager, Global Customer and Satisfaction Measurement
- Corporate Initiatives Research Manager
- Anderson Cooper on the Daily Show tonight?
- I don't know how to make this any clearer for you: cancel my account!
- Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?
- Time for a change...
- Bill Gates' Success and How it Applies to your Career
- When are you least productive?
- The long overdue death of finger quotes in my repertoire
- All about the interview
- Marketing opportunity for Starbucks Liqueur
- Bill Gates' Transition
- If Willy Wonka Made Coffee
- More proof that I am old
- Minty fresh and highly caffeinated
- One perfectly good reason to abandon your healthy diet
- Fire the customer and make it snappy
- Marketing with guilt...
- Run, Heather, Run!
- Robert Scoble reportedly leaving Microsoft
- I want you to want me
- Are we cool now? What about now? Now?
- Being "too nice"...something I've never been accused of
- How to get promoted in ten easy steps
- The diff between marketers and evangelists
- Saying "we suck" makes you happy?
- I found some extra time in my work day
- I own two pair of Uggs...
- Telecommuting confessions...
- Cool or Lazy?
- Explaining short stints on resumes
- Is the "Today Show" media and are they for sale?
- Simplicity
- If your blog is written by your PR department...
- Naughty but Funny
- In asking for employment references on the job application counter-productive?
- The Chinese invented pasta
- Product Naming Matters
- I apologize ahead of time
- Hot job for Marketing-Savvy Editor
- Marketing Editor for MSN
- All the stuff I want to blog about but don't
- Jazzy Quotes
- Eat it!
- Speaking of the quest for green-ness
- Life is strange
- An answer to the question "what Microsoft teams sit in the Silicon Valley office?"
- Ozzie impact
- How important is self-awareness in the interview?
- What if we all had to adopt a weather-person name?
- Entertaining Tech Support
- MSN tells you to play video games at work
- What does awesome look like on a resume?
- Coffee Coke: for reals?
- Small businesses and competing with Wal-mart
- There is such a thing as a free lunch but nobody cares
- American Idol I don't get, but this I get!
- GM: Viral Advertising Gone Awry?
- Start-up position at Microsoft?
- Senior Incubation Product Manager
- Weird but good
- I'm a Microsoft Blogging Poster-Child (pun intended)
- What's worse than bad e-mail marketing?
- What's an eggcorn? You know, the thing that chipmunks eat? No?
- Business Innovations
- The difference between companies that WANT their employees to blog and companies that ALLOW their employees to blog
- Stop the presses!
- What I know about bread (not the musical group, not the benjamins)
- An opportunity to do actual marketing in our staffing department
- A day late and sixpence short
- Shaking things up
- "Can you connect me with someone at Microsoft?"
- The year of collaborative thinking
- Oopsy
- A Hundred Little Victories
- Fear in the heart of one sedentary blogger
- How I know I am different than other people (blog metrics)
- The relationship between who you link to and who you read
- Microsoft Researcher and Academy Award Winner?
- "Top" Business Schools...You decide what "top" means
- Holy cow...wine.com!
- When a Competitor Moves into Your Space and Eats Your Lunch (and your customers are eating theirs)
- You're both fired! Now go away and hush up!
- Calling in Sick (when by "sick" you mean "I love tequila!")
- I knew it..
- Some people will never learn...
- I have 9000 friends..yeah!
- In your job search, are you a buyer a seller or something else?
- Which blog search engines are the best?
- Germaphobe: why do I care about this so much?
- At what point...
- Boomerangs...very popular in Australia...and Redmond
- Seth Godin on reasons...
- How to Write Job Descriptions that Don't Totally Stink
- Why Bill Gates knows Wannly Alvarez Better Than He Knows Me
- Unnecessary attribution....a step too far
- Find your talent in the stars
- It pays to be nice to your employees
- Resolution to the Alaska Airlines Situation
- Superbowl Ads Jump the Shark
- You can try IE7 Beta 2
- If you are going to have a "contact" link on your site, answering your e-mail would be appropriate
- I'm going to the gym...it might be the end of the world as we know it
- Peter Weddle on How to Work with Recruiters
- Transparency, Mike Nash Style
- More on my Alaska Airlines Situation
- Off to Vegas
- Rain, tornadoes, earthquakes...take your pick
- See, I'm on to you, dog.
- What do I need to know about where I am going to be?
- What a relief, I'm not a geek
- Welcome SeekWeek Webinar Participants!
- Server Platforms Networking Event in the Silicon Valley
- Resignation timing
- I Wish I Were an American Express Superstar
- Own Bill Gates' Car
2005 282
- What happens when your target customer doesn't care about your product
- Kind of like work, kind of like fun
- Let the Hamilton Family Eating Marathon Begin
- Updating resume not just for the job seeker
- Opportunity for Podcasters: Howard Stern's move to Sirius
- Mis-spelling a sign of genius? Maybe. Mis-spelling on your resume a sign of genius? I don't think so.
- Also not as funny as he thinks he is... well, kind of...forget it, just buy an XBox 360 please
- This dancing candy bar has one word for you: "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers"
- Once upon a time, I went to college...and then I applied for this position. The end.
- Pick your own dream team
- Signs that Recruiters get Blogging
- Where do I want to be in 5 years? On a beach, with a nice cold drink in my hand. You?
- Is that a coffee cup on your car or are you just trying to wish me 'happy holidays'
- TheLadders and Marketing and Finance Jobs at Microsoft
- Video Interview with Katy Hunter, Steve Ballmer's Speechwriter
- Post-interview 'Thank You' notes
- Assignment: blog analysis
- This is what happens when you leave your laptop unattended at Microsoft
- Staffing Management Magazine Article in Blogging
- A Snowy Day and Working from Home
- Cut and paste...stop!
- Open Marketing Positions in our Real Time Collaboration Group!
- Microsoft Get Serious About 'The Apprentice'
- If you get invited to a Nordstrom "Private Shopping Event", you should definitely go!
- I can answer five questions, no problem
- This holiday season, it's a tower of flowing chocolate, last year it was what? I don't remember.
- Microsoft tops Financial Times' "most Respected Companies" List
- Start something opthamologically questionable.....
- LinkedIn Etiquette Tips
- Impressions of a 6 month old Microsoftie
- Huge opportunity...scent-based marketing
- Mistakes in blogging...
- Holidays good time to polish that resume
- Bye bye, sweet ugly dog
- The Human Head Weighs 8 Pounds
- Wrong Thanksgiving Food
- XBox Stuff
- Technology 1, Candidate Experience 0
- More interviews to come
- The trouble with Martha
- I'm back...
- MSN Music Road Tour
- Microsoft and marketing to college students
- Marketers...want to work in XBOX?
- Blog Interview with Scott Horn, GM in Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices Group
- Scientists Discover Senior VP with Intense Interest in Recruiting
- Moderating comments while I am on vacation...
- BillG on MTV
- Hot Marketing Jobs in Xbox
- Business Travel Stops Here
- Judge a potential manager by how they treat their recruiter
- Marketing Manager, GTM Partner Management-Mobile and Embedded Devices Division
- Senior Online Marketing Manager - Windows Mobile (144827)
- Audience Marketing Manager, Windows Mobile Developers(144811)
- Channel Marketing Manager-Mobile and Embedded (137255)
- Proof of sunshine in Seattle
- Microsoft partnering with Wembley Stadium
- McKinsey on Employment Branding
- Error messages hurt
- Bill Gates' University Tour....videos
- Sr. Marketing Mgr-IT Manager Audience (139429)
- Senior Marketing Manager-IT Pro Audience (139691)
- IT Pro Audience Community Mgr (144489)
- Steve Ballmer Caption Contest
- And MSN gets JibJab!
- MSN/Yahoo! IM Interop
- I'm giving up on the Apprentice Re-caps....ahhh, don't hate me!
- Please, get out of my head
- Marketing@Microsoft Employee Careerpath Profiles: Neil Shah
- 25 Resume Words to Avoid
- Best cover letter/e-mail intro
- MSN Music Road Tour
- This Just In: Microsoft Exec Picks Up Trash
- My upcoming audio conference on recruitment blogging
- The Traffic Gods Have Spoken
- Product Management Consortium, October 6
- I'm so humbled by this honor
- Staffing Management Magazine: Blogging as a Recruiting Tool
- My friend Anne Manhart talks about MBA recruiting at Microsoft
- Honeywell Blog AImed at Young Job Candidates
- Blogging 101, literally
- The Shining...the feel-good movie of the year
- You want to talk about what is new and innovative in recruiting?
- Martin Taylor on why we reorged
- Subvert from Within
- I'm staying too, John
- Overselling
- Wow! Microsoft is 26,000 pounds lighter!
- Evangelist, Device Management and Installation
- IHV Evangelist - 64 bit
- Best Positions to Post on Blogs: Technical Evangelist
- Microsoft Reorg
- Fax number included why?
- Meet our new Bus Dev Executive...Napoleon Dynamite
- Recruiting Professionals Helping Katrina Impacted Residents
- Awww, Pradeep blogged about meeting with me today
- Honesty in Recruiting: Corporate Asset or Quaint Throwaway?
- Answering Tricky Interview Questions
- Oh yay! Blogging is old enough to have Folklore!
- Networking and Altruism
- Getting to Know the Seattle Area
- Siebel/Oracle Jitters Getting You Down? Feel Free to Get in Touch!
- Is it true, Donald?
- What's your employment brand? Ask someone. Ask Steve Ballmer.
- Read between the lines
- Hire by blog again
- Oh Happy Day...un-doing the wrong that was done to me 6/28/1999
- Microsoft's Linux/Open Source Lab
- U can save it 4 the chat room
- I'm not not thinking about Katrina
- Peter Fifka, International Man of Mystery
- Job Seekers Beware!
- What is it and how do I use it?
- Professional organizations and double dipping
- Best thing I have heard in a while
- Layoffs in the Information Age
- Sakun, it's not "goodbye"...it's "see you later"
- The Crabby Office Lady...no, it's not me
- Experiment: do finance people care about blogs?
- Watch me as I navigate...
- Decompression
- If Dan offers to work on your carburettor
- Mortification potential: high
- "Strategically aligned to the business"
- Is this a recruiting blog or what?
- MSN recruiter on the scene
- Gates on reduction in entrants into computer science
- Quick video with Steve Ballmer
- Working an event
- Recruiting podcasts
- Rock and Roll Reality
- Retail alphabet game
- Minesooota
- If you are going to blog, be an expert...or at least act like one, but definitely don't be a person (yay sarcasm!)
- World news and personal responsibility
- Giving the little guy a head start
- I think Microsoft is building me my own patio...I could be wrong
- Jobster Audiocast
- Successfully home schooled?
- Forty two dog years accounted for
- Event announcement: Microsoft Finance Career Event-Redmond, WA
- Getting feedback and liking it
- Email management and lightening speed
- Trailing partners
- On my mind...
- Article: How to use your blog as a networking tool
- Marketing in Virtual Earth
- Marketing positions in Virtual Earth
- What's the frequency, um, Kenneth?
- Still doubting that blogs get people hired?
- Something new and it's very networky
- Employment gaps...what to do
- Moving offices again...yes, again!
- Inside "marketing at Microsoft"
- A little community participation on the job changing topic
- Podcast coming...topic: recruitment blogging
- Peter Weddle's Advice for Staffing Bloggers
- Top Ten Reasons to Blog, According to Sun's Tim Bray
- Market looks promising for new college grads
- I don't want to be a dream squasher
- Finding Dave...
- The dreaded “reply all”
- Welcome WITI Members
- Quoted in the Wall Street Journal
- Don't be sorry...really, it's OK
- CNET News.com: (quote) Microsoft Millionaires Come of Age (quote)
- Sunny, 85 degrees and absolutely blogless
- My personal campaign...or pick an ethos, any ethos.
- Relief
- Blogger identifies his murderer
- Synergy
- Our marketing hiring needs...right now
- Good weekend to stay home
- Whirlyball today
- InformationWeek article on who owns the content on professional bloggers' sites
- Funny superbean blog
- Corporate Anthems...Apple is baking fruit
- Blog links and gender
- Enough about "passive candidates" already!
- Blogging as cost-cutting measure?
- Is blogging your full-time job?
- Because when you are too lazy to read the blogs...
- Steve Ballmer speech at Stanford GSB
- Mystery solved...now who pays for the brand damage?
- Into the Void
- Apprentice 3 Finale Tonight!...or next Thursday (edit)
- Questions about Staffing Blogs
- Trip Planner on the Weather Channel
- Comment eating blog
- Conversations with Staffing Leaders
- References, Schmeferences
- Quality of Hire...what else matters?
- Slow blogging week...what gives?
- Bad Recruiter Networking Redux
- Blog growing pains
- Smart but Mouthy
- What kind of English do you Speak?
- From Fortune Magazine: How to Network and Enjoy It
- Apprentice (quote) finalist (unquote) Chris arrested
- Major airlines starting to reconsider allowing cell phones
- Seattle PI Article: Microsoft Develops System to Fight Child Exploitation
- Here's the official event announcement for Boston
- Free Tablet PC apps
- Apprentice Recap Coming
- New skins...better than before
- MSN Search wishes
- MSN search uncovers the "real" me
- Customer Sat 911
- Server and Tools Networking Event in Boston
- Landed.fm interview with Gerry Crispin
- Hip-hoppy and sick and wrong
- Jonas and my new digital camera
- Types of people we look for in marketing and finance
- Moderating blog comments today
- Podcast on career management and job searching with Landed.fm
- Seattle PI article on Suzan DelBene
- What I'll never do
- My perspective on "passive" candidates: most recruiters have it wrong.
- Fire bad, PhotoStory Good
- Blogging is not the "big, new thing" in recruiting...relationships are
- One of my blog readers just got an offer from Microsoft!
- Top ten things hiring managers can do to identify candidates
- Apprentice 8: I'm sick of this show and John is just sick
- Upcoming interviews and thinking about podcasting
- Podcast interview of Balz Wyss, Senior Product Manager in Mobile and Embedded Division
- My radio interview on the graffiti episode
- What a non-technical Microsoft employee looks like (alternate title: Heather sees if she can add pictures to blog posts)
- Don't be alarmed
- Changing Role of the CFO
- Shady Hiring Technique
- Bill Gates interview with Peter Jennings
- Improving your online resume
- "Finding Trends in Customer Feedback"
- Question for the marketing and finance readers out there...
- Here's the new advertising vehicle for monster.com....I mean the recruiting newsletter from Fast Company
- Hot Job: Microsoft.com Site Manager
- Bad recruiter networking
- Advice and tips from my mother on organic produce
- I'm moving offices...again!
- Shorter hours in software industry
- Customer Experience feedback via Blogs
- Looking for a list of best companies for marketers
- First hand from Sri Lanka
- eWeek article about the PeopleSoft/Oracle merger that quotes me
- Silicon Valley Event: Crossing the Divide between Engineering and Marketing
- Love/Hate Brand Scores
- Best Business Blogs by Bomen...I mean Women.
- Online degrees...are they worth it? What about MBAs in general?
- USC Names Gaming's First Endowed Chair
- Streets and Trips, my mom's favorite Microsoft product
- Recruiters: want to be part of your clients business? Involve them in yours.
- Apprentice Fantasy Game Stats: Week 3
- Here's my radio interview on the Apprentice
- Feng Shui Underpants Ward off Evil Spirits
- Article: Microsoft worker wants to be Trump's Apprentice
- What a Technical Evangelist looks like (kind of like a bird...kind of like an elephant?)
- Apprentice Fantasy Game Stats
- Testing your Internet Visibility
- Cool Morale Event
- Wanna blow your own mind?
- Google blog sleeps with the fishes
- Statistically, I guess Monday was very depressing
- Direct Marketing the Doesn't Work
- LinkedIn invitations, "I'm updating my contacts" and "please join my ERE network"
- More Apprentice Fun...
- Hot job: Developer Events Marketing Manager
- Microsoft and Tsunami Relief
- Where you can find me...
- What to do about Counter-offers
- Hot job: Server Brand Manager
- Microsoft Employee on the Apprentice
- How to put your best foot forward at a networking event...
- Recruiters who actually know what they are talking about
- Microsoft Infrastructure Product Management Career Event in Silicon Valley
- Blogs...bringing people together
- Searching my blog
- Article Link Purge
- USC...National Champions...period
- Another Silicon Valley Interviewing Opportunity
- It doesn't matter what job you apply to and it never has.
- Dr. John's Recruiting Trends 2005
- Job Search/Career Tips for Marketers
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- Ah, insomnia...three things
- Dan Gillmor spoke at Microsoft
- Why won't I learn?
- Blogs can get you jobs
- Best kept secret about working at Microsoft
- I don't want to, but I have to
- Blogger wins the Heisman Trophy!
- I knew there had to be a catch...
- Knowing where your best performers came from...um, yeah...it's important!
- AOL job eliminations
- Conducting a job search over the holidays...good idea or waste of time?
- Executive Employment Outlook for 2005
- The Effect of Applicant Influence Tactics on Recruiter Perceptions of Fit and Hiring Recommendations: A Field Study
- Time for an office move...
- Is .jobs the staffing domain of the future?
- Hyperion giving employees $5K toward purchase of green car
- Getting back into the swing...
- This is what happens when you are sick of the sound of your own voice...search engine poetry
- Airline food for purchase by Delta...not bad
- I'm a marketer...I'm a recruiter...no, I'm a girl with purple hair
- OK...I am here and it is pretty cool!
- Could be a slow blogging week for me...
- Microsoft stops the aging process
- What we look for: Outbound Product Marketing
- You never know what you've got until it's gone
- Microsoft's Employee Referral Process
- Google cheat sheet
- What to do when the resume you post to a resume database/job board does not result in calls
- The World's Very Best Job Sites?
- Finding blogs that interest you...
- Want me to find your blog resume without the trouble of having to send it to me?
- Michael Gartenberg says companies should be concerned about blogging...
- Cool things that you find out about your co-workers
- Never underestimate the power of a new pair of boots
- Resume templates
- Why the one page resume doesn't work anymore
- Interview with Chris Weber, General Manager for Microsoft's Server Platform Business Marketing Office
- Founding a Product Management Association
- Silicon Valley Interviewing Opportunity
- Why Managers Don't Respect Recruiting and What I Think Recruiters Can do About It
- The fear of making a job change...
- My quote in the NY Times Job Market section
- Is blogging making us mean?
- Great article today on building morale
- I'm quoted today in the Wall Street Journal
- Management Consulting and Marketing at Microsoft
- Uh-oh, something is amiss when parents ask about blogging
- Blogging guidelines at Sun
- As promised, tips and links for new blog readers and new bloggers
- This isn't your mothers Maytag
- In a bit of a blog fog...but here's what's coming
- Blogging = revenue generation? I don't think so
- Thanks ERE!
- Interviewing in Boston next week
- Will I be a blogging granny?
- Breaking my own rules.
- "Mini-me" syndrome...a major hiring risk for companies
- Resume word of the day: "Experience"
- Unemployment and Smoking
- More on avoiding resume blunders
- Friendster coder fired for blogging
- What happens to your corporate blog when you leave the company?
- More cool viral advertising...
- ilovebees.com...hacked server, conspiracy or fantastic Halo 2 Marketing?
- Tricks of the Trade..from circus clown to software developer
- Microsoft words...
- Getting noticed at Microsoft...
- Sir, would you like to drink that shot of vodka or smoke it?
- Monster.com and the top keywords recruiters use to find you
- Ten Companies that Missed Blog Opportunities
- Costco is selling caskets
- Increasing competition for Monster.com
- I experienced the new soda dispensers
- Avoiding salary disconnects when you are interviewing with a company
- RealNetworks launches online petition and feels the wrath of the iPod people
- My geek blog is better than yours...thats right! It better than yours!
- Customer product complaints and blogs
- I *finally* have something to point to!
- Sick of the job board chaos? Try this!
- eBay and Craigslist
- Earth, Wind, Fire and Heather
- When you spend more time talking about blogging than actually blogging?
- I could use a little customer feedback here...
- Heading down to Silicon Valley again...
- Someone's keeping a list on...
- We're All Journalists Now
- Picking a social networking service
- How do you work reading into your daily/weekly/monthly routine?
- Research and open doors
- Zach Braff is the new Wil Wheaton...kind of.
- Why recruiters don't blog...
- Best blogging tools for *new* bloggers
- Is this Tuna or Chicken what I'm eating?
- And this is how I know I am cool...
- Recruiting blog void...
- Its Prime Wine
- Watch out for "Sales and Marketing"
- Blogging versus journalism, Exhibit 2
- Should I be afraid to like Google?
- Where are all the recruiting blogs?
- Blogging versus journalism...
- How do recruiters use online resumes?
- We are still busy hiring...always
- A new phenomenon...blog guilt
- Buzzword bonanza...
- Brand, brand, brand...
- Ready for some college football?
- More hints on posting your resume to job boards...
- Job Board tips
- Getting a contract position with Microsoft
- Question to the blog community...when is it OK to solicit links?
- Recruiting for marketing is hard!
- Blogger for campus recruiting...
- Blogging 101
- You think YOU have it tough? Try molting.
- Morphing your marketing career into a technical marketing career (step two)
- Work is keeping me from getting my work done.
- Corporate Blogging Survey...
- I got my 5 year clock...
- BlogShares...Fantasy Blog Shares Market
- I hate that I am jealous of the tech bloggers...
- Trackbacks and links..a nice way to say "thanks"
- Turning a call from a recruiter into a networking call...
- How can I tell if I was successful?
- Morphing your marketing career into a technical marketing career (step one)
- Meet Ben Riga!
- Why do bloggers keep falling off?
- What is it going to take for (corporate) blogging to become a job skill?
- Our newest Platform Evangelist has joined the team...
- Heading to Boston in September
- I'm still here..
- Subservient Chicken
- Microsoft Newsletters
- Speaking of feeling my age...
- ResumeBlogs work...I have proof
- When work is a nice vacation from your life
- Think like a recruiter...
- The Zen of Career Evaluation
- Blogs, personality and the hiring process...
- didtheyreadit.com?...Idon'tlikeit.com
- Is blogging the "next big thing" for Microsoft
- BillG, blogging and "bottoms-up empowerment"
- Resume grammar
- Does Microsoft's endorsement of employee blogging make it a better place to work?
- Does blogging make you a better candidate for Microsoft?
- Cool jobs that use both technical and marketing skills!
- How many different versions of my resume do I need?
- Social Networking and Recruiting...the tools don't match the hype
- Blogs and Recruiting...seems to me there is some confusion
- Don't get fired...
- Follow up Q&A on preparing for the Microsoft Interview
- How to test your Internet visibility
- Alternative to Social Networking....blog-working
- Eavesdropping...
- Future of recruiting
- Questions?
- I'll be quiet for a little while longer....
- Interviewing Marketing people in Silicon Valley next Wednesday.
- Consistency in Marketing and greasy food
- Social Networking Software and Recruiting
- Where will we find you?
- I'd hire Kwame....
- Everything I know about Marketing, I learned on The Apprentice...NOT!
- Corporate Blogs and Wikis
- Online resources for resume writing
- Blogging and Marketing
- Harvard and Wharton MBAs nolonger surveyed for b-school ranking
- Hot Job: Senior Program Manager, Digital Media
- RANT: Making it easy enough for your wife to use
- "Hot Marketing Jobs" at Microsoft
- Making a Career Change
- Phone Interviews
- ResumeBlogs work
- Second Acts for Old Brands
- A look at the flip-side: Employment Branding
- You are your own Brand: Strategies for Job Searching
- A few more tips on submitting resumes
- Digital Resume Format
- I am..a Corporate Blogger
- Q & A
- Marketing "specialist" roles
- My first week as a blogger
- Some of it is work related, some not. This is what I'm reading, have read or am going to read
- Corporate Blogging Culture
- What happens when I submit my resume?
- Market Research...what does Microsoft look for?
- Marketing Undergrads....did you know?
- Inspiration
- (Read me)
- What is "Marketing" at Microsoft?
- Heather's Bio
- Marketing at Microsoft...