The evening of May 5^th, we (ProfGuilds/SPM) will be speaking at the SVPMA monthly meeting in Sunnyvale about career management (more details on this event shortly).  Two of us from ProfGuilds/SPM/ResumeBlog will be on the panel, as will Heather Hamilton, the Senior Talent Scout at Microsoft who is an active member of the softwareproductmarketingdiscussion egroup and regular blogger about SPM and the ResumeBlogs.

 

While here in Silicon Valley, Heather and a colleague are interested in interviewing candidates for marketing positions at Microsoft.  They plan to interview the day of the event and then the day afterwards.  [They are normally located in Redmond.]

 

The Microsoft Talent Scouts will select people to interview by perusing the ResumeBlogs.  If you don’t have one, don’t panic, there is still time to create one!  Just go to www.resumeblog.com for the instructions.  It’s ideal if you do this by Friday noon PDT as it takes time for knowledge of the existence of new ResumeBlogs to propagate thru the system.  Once you have your ResumeBlog done, please send Heather an email (heathham@...) in this format:

• Subject line: Your Name, interview request - SF Bay Area OR if you would like to be considered but are NOT in the SF Bay Area and therefore cannot be interviewed next week, do exactly the same except state your location and ask for a review of your ResumeBlog. 

Follow these examples:

• Cynthia Typaldos, interview request – SF Bay Area
• Abraham Lincoln, review request – Washington DC
• Sue Smith, review request – Austin, TX
• The body of the email should include right up front a link to your ResumeBlog!  The Talent Scouts will also be looking thru all of the ResumeBlogs using the BlogRoll tool and the keyword search box, but the ones received by email will be looked at first

 

If you have any problems when creating your ResumeBlog, please do not send them to me directly, but rather send them to the ResumeBlog Support Team.  We will do everything possible to answer your questions and get your blog posted, but remember that we are volunteers so be patient if necessary.  Creating a ResumeBlog is very simple though, and most people do not run into any problems.  You should also read the following information:

 

• My blog entry on notes from a Microsoft Talent Scout (it was Heather of course):

I can’t get those darn permalinks to work so go my regular blog  www.typaldos.blogspot.com and look for the entry below:

Wednesday, February 18, 2004: Conversations with Microsoft Senior Talent Scout – Rev 2.18.04

• Heather Hamilton’s blog http://blogs.msdn.com/heatherleigh/
• Blog of several other Microsoft Talent Scouts: http://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog

 

It will be solely the decision of the Microsoft team who they choose to interview. 

 

Feel free to forward this message to appropriate software/internet/networking marketing professionals.  Ask them to join SPM first by going to our egroup at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/softwareproductmarketing.

 

Even if you are not located in the SF Bay area and therefore not a candidate for next week’s interview process, this is still a good time to get your ResumeBlog completed.  The jobs they are looking to fill are across all of the Microsoft locations although the candidates they will interview next week will be in Silicon Valley. And of course, many other talent scouts, recruiters and hiring managers look for candidates amongst the ResumeBloggers.

 

More information soon regarding the panel discussion on the evening of May 5th in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley. While this is a geographically constrained presentation, we will be posting it afterwards on the ResumeBlog site (www.resumeblog.com).

 

Cynthia

 

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