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job hunting

• Women on layoffs, education, and their futures

  27 May 2009

  Dear readers and job-seekers, this is the second-to-last episode of a series about women handling career moves, layoffs, education, and personal choices in the workforce. These are friends of mine and I've come to feel new respect and admiration for their attitudes and clarity: Le Ann (Seattle) - The...
• The care and feeding of your (jobs) network

  19 May 2009

  People are continuing to lose jobs, and we're continuing to work on ways that we can help people find new jobs—even better jobs. At Office Online, we have plenty of templates for resumes —and in March we launched the partnership with Monster.com to help get those resumes in front of people who are hiring...
• Women empowered with career change

  15 May 2009

  Dear readers and job seekers, the women in my life amaze me. I polled all my friends for stories about how planned or unplanned career changes turned out to be positive. Women replied with brave, interesting, and compelling stories. Today is part two of a five-part series: Pat (Seattle) - Four of us...
• Get your career groove on

  12 May 2009

  Has your career followed the 80/20 rule? Twenty percent of the time you are sure you’re getting it absolutely right, and the other 80 percent of the time you’re trying to figure out what steps to take next. The right decisions, and tools, can help. Here are three reminders to keep your career reasonably...
• Resume advice: You are cool, nifty, and successful (now prove it)

  3 Apr 2009

  For several years I worked in human resources (HR), and in that time I learned a few things I wanted to pass along to you, dear reader. First and foremost, your resume , or curriculum vitae (CV), is an extension of you. It opens doors, and gets you closer to that magic answer you seek: Yes . Free yourself...
• Office Intervention: It's good to be brilliant

  2 Apr 2009

  Microsoft Office has awesome powers. It’s jam packed with a gazillion ways to help you be more productive. Fact is, Office is so insanely rich that no one taps its full potential. All Office customers -- from those confronting enterprise-wide, business-critical issues to the newbie just getting started...
• Job hunting lessons for the 21st century

  2 Apr 2009

  By now you have probably seen the announcement about our new Office Online Career Center and partnership with Monster.com. While we've put together this great resource for you to work on your resume and upload it online, we recognize that social networking has become another source for potentially finding...
• Office Casual: How to get your resume noticed & Story Time (a double bill)

  31 Mar 2009

  The Internet and job engines have digitized everything and you need to fortify your resume the same way companies use search engines: by using keywords. Office Casual: How to get your resume noticed This video is part of our new Job Seeker site created in conjunction with Monster.com. Find lots of resources...
• Looking for a job? Visit the new Office Online Career Center powered by Monster.com

  23 Mar 2009

  I am very excited to announce we have created a new Office Online Career Center and partnered with Monster.com to make the entire job hunting process - from planning your strategy to polishing your resume and submitting it for a position - as painless as possible. Check out the video, where we walk Seattle...
• When cover letters go bad...

  7 Jan 2009

  Excerpts from actual cover letters, as presented to advertising agency Killian & Company : "I also have a degree English which serves me well in editing text for poor grammer or typos." "I need real world experience and after reviewing your web site I get the impressing that your company believes...
• 1000 resumes? One extreme job-hunting strategy that worked.

  17 Nov 2008

  My colleague David Salaguinto recently shared the bizarre story of how he got here— here being Microsoft's caffeinated halls. He took an extreme approach to job hunting after the start-up he was working for downsized overnight, back when startups everywhere were shedding payroll fast. He had a new mortgage...
• Another 240,000 and counting. Worried about your job?

  13 Nov 2008

  The October employment news was not good. Another 240,000 people lost their jobs. The unemployment rate reached a 14-year high of 6.5 percent, with 2.8 million more people unemployed than at this time last year. The double whammy of mortgage woes and unemployment is hitting home. How can we help? Over...
• Just pay someone else to do it

  15 Aug 2008

  What's that thing on your to-do list that just stays there? That task you know needs to get done, but it's just out of your comfort zone or just nags at you. Or perhaps you want to provide your services for some $$$ to those folks who need some help. It could be something small like: Translate a letter...
• Are you LinkedIn? Bill Gates is.

  3 Mar 2008

  When we published the Career and jobs resources page a couple of months ago, we included a link to an interview with Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute? in which he explains why he believes networking is still the best way to find the job you want. Networking used to mean knocking...
• Beyond the resume - job hunting advice from a Microsoft HR professional

  19 Dec 2007

  Since resumes are among our most popular template downloads on Office Online, and particularly from our Career Center we thought it might be worthwhile to offer you job seekers even more assistance as you start the journey of finding that perfect position. So, it just made sense to go directly to the...
• Job hunting in the 21st Century

  4 Dec 2007

  My how things have changed since I stumbled into the job market a while back. I'm gathering ideas for a page about how to approach finding a new job or changing jobs in today's world of giant job boards, email thank-you notes and unacknowledged application submissions. I have plenty of ideas about what...