Hey there everyone. Wow, it has been awhile. Lot going on in life with the holidays, end of year, oh, and change.
I made a decision to leave Microsoft after connecting with an Amazon recruiting friend who has been there for about 2.5 years. Funny thing is, I interviewed him for a position while I was at atlas, a division of aQuantive and ended up hiring someone more senior. He still talks to me - thanks Jay!
So I had a phone conversation with a recruiting manager I know from the industry and then a recruiting director there whom I know from the .com days. Both good guys who have had solid careers at Amazon and enjoy it.
From there we go to the formal interview (aka "the loop"). I met with several people (yes several) and the interview went well. Everyone had good questions for me and were, IMO, very open about experience and thoughts on Amazon...both good and bad. It was great to hear what's great about the place as well as where "we" can improve.
I met with people from a couple different businesses because of the growth they are experiencing and they not only wanted to gauge where I might fit best, but also give me an opportunity to look at other groups.
My recruiter followed up with me, shared feedback and made me an offer. And here I sit today, an Amazonian in my first week! I will keep this entry short but wanted to give a quick update on my experience and what's new.
If you have interviewed with Amazon, whether you ended up joining or not, drop me a mail and let me know what you think...good and bad. There are always room to grow in both areas.
You will see more about my Amazon.com recruiting adventure and hear about our hiring efforts. Feel free to connect with me with any questions and interest.
BR
bryrei@amazon.com
206.266.9815 work
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Biking riding, the new business sport
Hey folks, been a bit since I last scripted something. I'll be the first to admit I have been caught up in my own little recruiting world as things have gotten really busy....yes, recruiting, interviewing and hiring!
That being said, I still make time for riding (pedal power)! Those of you that don't know me, I'm big time commuter, bike racer and triathlete. The bike is my zen place. Makes me want to leave work early on sunny day, makes me smile when I fly by car traffic that is standing still on my way to work, and I like showing off my calves (no really).
But this week, a friend and Job Mob co-founder (http://www.thejobmob.com/recruiting/index.html#1) Josiah Johson drop me an email to let me know a buddy hooked him up with his old Cervelo (new or used those bikes are awesome) and he asked if I wanted to ride after work.
The weather here in Seattle started off slow, but based on the 5 day forecast, was going to start looking good Thursday through Sunday. So we decided to sync up on Thursday. Turned out today was good day. I met Josiah at the Job Mob HQ on Eastlake, checked out the space and we started talking shop as we were heading out the door.
This was just a friendly, let's get out in the sun shoot the breeze type of ride. We talked about how things have been going for the Job Mob and how the yare starting to see things turn in the economy and about successes and speedbumps thus far. Overall, business is good.
Then we start talking about recruiting and Josiah is like, Biking is the golf, and I'm like what?! Now I consider myself a very strong networker and well connected, but it kind of caught me off guard to hear someone say, not verbatim, but that biking was the new business sport.
I have always said that I need to learn how to golf so I can leverage that as a tool since it seems to be "the business man's sport." But Josiah proceeded to tell me about some of the technology folks he has met riding and the networking he has been doing while on the bike.
Now I have met my fair share of people via biking, have done a bit of networking and even hired from it. But I still hadn't thought of it as the new business man's sport. Now I really do.
And I'm glad that I won't have to pick up the clubs anytime soon, biking is pricey enough.
Good biking with you today Josiah. Best of luck to you and the crew at The Job Mob and I'll look forward to riding again soon.
For those of you that don't know, The Job Mob is a boutique recruiting firm working with technology professionals. Whether you are looking for a new adventure or not, this crew is good to have in your network. Never hurts to part of "the family."
Feel free to connect with me on the bike, linkedin, twitter or facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/bryan.reichert
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanreichert
@bryrei on Twitter
That being said, I still make time for riding (pedal power)! Those of you that don't know me, I'm big time commuter, bike racer and triathlete. The bike is my zen place. Makes me want to leave work early on sunny day, makes me smile when I fly by car traffic that is standing still on my way to work, and I like showing off my calves (no really).
But this week, a friend and Job Mob co-founder (http://www.thejobmob.com/recruiting/index.html#1) Josiah Johson drop me an email to let me know a buddy hooked him up with his old Cervelo (new or used those bikes are awesome) and he asked if I wanted to ride after work.
The weather here in Seattle started off slow, but based on the 5 day forecast, was going to start looking good Thursday through Sunday. So we decided to sync up on Thursday. Turned out today was good day. I met Josiah at the Job Mob HQ on Eastlake, checked out the space and we started talking shop as we were heading out the door.
This was just a friendly, let's get out in the sun shoot the breeze type of ride. We talked about how things have been going for the Job Mob and how the yare starting to see things turn in the economy and about successes and speedbumps thus far. Overall, business is good.
Then we start talking about recruiting and Josiah is like, Biking is the golf, and I'm like what?! Now I consider myself a very strong networker and well connected, but it kind of caught me off guard to hear someone say, not verbatim, but that biking was the new business sport.
I have always said that I need to learn how to golf so I can leverage that as a tool since it seems to be "the business man's sport." But Josiah proceeded to tell me about some of the technology folks he has met riding and the networking he has been doing while on the bike.
Now I have met my fair share of people via biking, have done a bit of networking and even hired from it. But I still hadn't thought of it as the new business man's sport. Now I really do.
And I'm glad that I won't have to pick up the clubs anytime soon, biking is pricey enough.
Good biking with you today Josiah. Best of luck to you and the crew at The Job Mob and I'll look forward to riding again soon.
For those of you that don't know, The Job Mob is a boutique recruiting firm working with technology professionals. Whether you are looking for a new adventure or not, this crew is good to have in your network. Never hurts to part of "the family."
Feel free to connect with me on the bike, linkedin, twitter or facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/bryan.reichert
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanreichert
@bryrei on Twitter
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
OSD Finance Solution Manager aka Solutions Delivery Manager
Hey Network. Recruiting has really fired up in my org and I am giong to start sharing roles that are currently open in my world. I will at some point either get them all loaded in one easy location for you to access or send links out from the official site.
We are seeing sunbreaks in our recruiting world and I want to share the wealth. So let me know who you know!
OSD Finance Solution Manager aka Solutions Delivery Manager
As the world’s leading Software Company, Microsoft has pioneered many of the technology innovations which have paved the way for the digital information revolution. With products ranging from the Windows operating systems to the Office productivity suite, the Visual Studio suite of developers tools, the Xbox 360 video game platform, and a broad range of new offerings in high-growth areas including Web-based services, unified communications, search, advertising and much more. Microsoft continues to be the worldwide leader in helping people and businesses realize their full potential!
Microsoft’s Online Services Division is an exciting fast growing business division, and is responsible for delivering online services which seek to empower our users by bringing them closer to the people and information that matter most to them. OSD’s mission is to enable people everywhere to gain knowledge and creativity from the web by computationally understanding user intent and matching that with published content, advertising offerings and software services. Online Services develops technologies that provide an online advertising platform for publishers and advertisers; personal communications services such as e-mail and instant messaging; and online information offerings such as Bing Search and the MSN portals and channels.
The OSD Finance Solution Delivery organization is looking for an experienced and energetic Solution Manager to join our team who will help us to execute our OSD Finance organization’s mission in support of the Division. OSD Finance’s mission is to empower people with knowledge through financial expertise, operational excellence and sounds advice. In this exciting role you will be accountable for end to end solution management and will have the opportunity to gain deep knowledge about the business model, processes, capabilities and systems. This role spans groups inside and outside of OSD Finance; therefore the candidate must be a leader/performer in strategic thinking, problem solving, decision making and cross-group collaboration while using cross-group collaboration to build consensus, influence plans as needed to enable successful delivery, and ensure execution of cross-group tasks. This role is a leadership role which will partner with senior management regarding our Microsoft Partner ecosystem.
Job Responsibilities:
Maintain a strong relationship and regular communications with stakeholders (including senior management) in OSD Finance in relation to their business goals & priorities, and how process automation through IT solutions will help them reach their goals.
Create and maintain a cohesive, coordinated implementation plan to deliver projects that meet those process automation needs.
Execute processes around authoring & maintaining business requirements, issue/risks lists, etc. related to the project.
Form the information obtained in the above steps into a solution proposal. Communicate and build consensus with other groups regarding this solution & options available to implement it.
Drive the prioritization process by which decisions are made around the final project scope.
Individually, or in conjunction with other groups, develop specific project plans to address implement the project.
Execute on these project plans and assist others in executing on project plans across the various groups.
Use industry-standard approaches to document requirements and other project particulars such as Joint Application Design and Use Cases. Use the Microsoft Solutions Framework as applied within OSD Finance.
Primary author & accountable for overall Business Requirements Document, UAT plan and other related project deliverables.
Job Qualifications:
· Strong interest and experience in developing and improving Finance business capabilities, processes and associated systems.
· Ability to perform at a team and broader organizational level focusing on the work assigned to multiple team members and associated issues, risks, and implications.
· Excellent interpersonal skills to build positive working relationships across groups and management levels.
· 10+ years managing end-to-end, large scale or several medium scale projects.
· Ability to influence others.
· Excellent decision making skills.
· Effective time management in complex situations.
· Ability to effectively deal with ambiguous situations.
· Strong working knowledge of the SDLC.
· Ability to effectively communicate using multiple media formats to present ideas/plans.
Job Deliverables
· Manage and lead a team and/or cross-functional project team to ensure delivery of a complex solution plan of critical information containing analytical and evaluative information for use by others. Own and drive the design and development of product or initiative plans. Specific examples might include, but are not limited to some of the following:
Status reports
Metrics
Strategic business plans
Key performance indicators
· Key contributor to the solution design. Deliverables include but are not limited to:
Conducting initiative Kick-off meeting, establish and document initiative Charter
Setting goals and objectives for direct reports and/or project team members
Conducting project core team meetings
Conducting regular scheduled 1:1’s with project team members
Conducting program reviews with Director/GM/VP levels
· Complex client/customer requirements. Specific examples might include, but are not limited to some of the following:
Business Usage
Content Design
Business Requirements
Vision Scope document
Business Case
Initiative Charter
Operational Specification
Pre-Baseline Review
· Complex product or initiative components including, but not limited to some of the following:
Strategic Product Plan
Feature map
Release plan
As is process
To be process
Managing within budget constraints
Baseline Review
· Complex product or initiative related communications, such as:
Scorecard
Status Reports
Compliance status
Design/Development issues
Team SharePoint content
Web content
White paper
Evangelizing the product/initiative
Satisfaction survey
Project or initiative review to Director/GM level
Responsible for managing relationships with multiple Internal Clients or complex businesses across WW SMS&P
· Implementation, deployment, and maintenance of complex product plans such as:
UAT (scripts & process)
Training plans and execution
Legal review
Post implementation review
· Central point of contact for Internal Business Clients, IT and the Regional Operations Centers and provides leadership for design and implementation of all functional aspects of a program launch or performance improvement initiative.
· Overall budget responsibilities for owned initiatives or products, including but not limited to:
Securing budget dollars during budget planning process &/or throughout fiscal year.
Tracking & approving the actual spend to budget during the lifecycle of the project/initiative.
· Responsible for managing the Resource Planning for all aspects of the initiative or project that includes project management, analysis, development, testing & training resources.
· Utilize the Initiative Management Framework or MSFT Solutions Framework for a complete set of deliverables when managing projects.
Related projects completed as assigned
Job Process
· Build relationships with key stakeholders for validation of business requirements, end user experience assessments, work flow process documentation, communication plans and verification of system requirements to business requirements.
· Brings a broad and deep range of experience and take business models into account when driving solutions to complex business problems.
· Works independently on most problem-solving with a need to escalate for complex issues that span organizations.
· Focused on objectives that contribute to both technical and business aspects of operations strategies
· Defining the benefits of product through a business case analysis
· Formulating a distinctive strategy for supporting business needs by defining scope
· Clarifying and documenting vision, business rules and requirements
· Mapping progress against requirements throughout project
· To develop and maintain complex product components, by:
Mapping Process Models
Obtaining input from client/customer and team to see related satisfaction
· Insure high quality of implementation, deployment, and maintenance of complex products, by:
Clearly communicating the product or program plan to all key stakeholders
Communicating and adhering to all project processes, including by not limited to:
· Standard development life cycle
· Design/change requests
Acting as client/customer advocate & providing applicable product-related information
Writing or coordinating user acceptance tests and conducting sessions
Writing or ensuring user/training guides are completed and/or conducting training sessions
Reviewing product or programmatic processes with legal resources to insure compliancy
· Conduct post implementation reviews to understand satisfaction, issues, and items to improve upon in future projects and initiatives
We are seeing sunbreaks in our recruiting world and I want to share the wealth. So let me know who you know!
OSD Finance Solution Manager aka Solutions Delivery Manager
As the world’s leading Software Company, Microsoft has pioneered many of the technology innovations which have paved the way for the digital information revolution. With products ranging from the Windows operating systems to the Office productivity suite, the Visual Studio suite of developers tools, the Xbox 360 video game platform, and a broad range of new offerings in high-growth areas including Web-based services, unified communications, search, advertising and much more. Microsoft continues to be the worldwide leader in helping people and businesses realize their full potential!
Microsoft’s Online Services Division is an exciting fast growing business division, and is responsible for delivering online services which seek to empower our users by bringing them closer to the people and information that matter most to them. OSD’s mission is to enable people everywhere to gain knowledge and creativity from the web by computationally understanding user intent and matching that with published content, advertising offerings and software services. Online Services develops technologies that provide an online advertising platform for publishers and advertisers; personal communications services such as e-mail and instant messaging; and online information offerings such as Bing Search and the MSN portals and channels.
The OSD Finance Solution Delivery organization is looking for an experienced and energetic Solution Manager to join our team who will help us to execute our OSD Finance organization’s mission in support of the Division. OSD Finance’s mission is to empower people with knowledge through financial expertise, operational excellence and sounds advice. In this exciting role you will be accountable for end to end solution management and will have the opportunity to gain deep knowledge about the business model, processes, capabilities and systems. This role spans groups inside and outside of OSD Finance; therefore the candidate must be a leader/performer in strategic thinking, problem solving, decision making and cross-group collaboration while using cross-group collaboration to build consensus, influence plans as needed to enable successful delivery, and ensure execution of cross-group tasks. This role is a leadership role which will partner with senior management regarding our Microsoft Partner ecosystem.
Job Responsibilities:
Maintain a strong relationship and regular communications with stakeholders (including senior management) in OSD Finance in relation to their business goals & priorities, and how process automation through IT solutions will help them reach their goals.
Create and maintain a cohesive, coordinated implementation plan to deliver projects that meet those process automation needs.
Execute processes around authoring & maintaining business requirements, issue/risks lists, etc. related to the project.
Form the information obtained in the above steps into a solution proposal. Communicate and build consensus with other groups regarding this solution & options available to implement it.
Drive the prioritization process by which decisions are made around the final project scope.
Individually, or in conjunction with other groups, develop specific project plans to address implement the project.
Execute on these project plans and assist others in executing on project plans across the various groups.
Use industry-standard approaches to document requirements and other project particulars such as Joint Application Design and Use Cases. Use the Microsoft Solutions Framework as applied within OSD Finance.
Primary author & accountable for overall Business Requirements Document, UAT plan and other related project deliverables.
Job Qualifications:
· Strong interest and experience in developing and improving Finance business capabilities, processes and associated systems.
· Ability to perform at a team and broader organizational level focusing on the work assigned to multiple team members and associated issues, risks, and implications.
· Excellent interpersonal skills to build positive working relationships across groups and management levels.
· 10+ years managing end-to-end, large scale or several medium scale projects.
· Ability to influence others.
· Excellent decision making skills.
· Effective time management in complex situations.
· Ability to effectively deal with ambiguous situations.
· Strong working knowledge of the SDLC.
· Ability to effectively communicate using multiple media formats to present ideas/plans.
Job Deliverables
· Manage and lead a team and/or cross-functional project team to ensure delivery of a complex solution plan of critical information containing analytical and evaluative information for use by others. Own and drive the design and development of product or initiative plans. Specific examples might include, but are not limited to some of the following:
Status reports
Metrics
Strategic business plans
Key performance indicators
· Key contributor to the solution design. Deliverables include but are not limited to:
Conducting initiative Kick-off meeting, establish and document initiative Charter
Setting goals and objectives for direct reports and/or project team members
Conducting project core team meetings
Conducting regular scheduled 1:1’s with project team members
Conducting program reviews with Director/GM/VP levels
· Complex client/customer requirements. Specific examples might include, but are not limited to some of the following:
Business Usage
Content Design
Business Requirements
Vision Scope document
Business Case
Initiative Charter
Operational Specification
Pre-Baseline Review
· Complex product or initiative components including, but not limited to some of the following:
Strategic Product Plan
Feature map
Release plan
As is process
To be process
Managing within budget constraints
Baseline Review
· Complex product or initiative related communications, such as:
Scorecard
Status Reports
Compliance status
Design/Development issues
Team SharePoint content
Web content
White paper
Evangelizing the product/initiative
Satisfaction survey
Project or initiative review to Director/GM level
Responsible for managing relationships with multiple Internal Clients or complex businesses across WW SMS&P
· Implementation, deployment, and maintenance of complex product plans such as:
UAT (scripts & process)
Training plans and execution
Legal review
Post implementation review
· Central point of contact for Internal Business Clients, IT and the Regional Operations Centers and provides leadership for design and implementation of all functional aspects of a program launch or performance improvement initiative.
· Overall budget responsibilities for owned initiatives or products, including but not limited to:
Securing budget dollars during budget planning process &/or throughout fiscal year.
Tracking & approving the actual spend to budget during the lifecycle of the project/initiative.
· Responsible for managing the Resource Planning for all aspects of the initiative or project that includes project management, analysis, development, testing & training resources.
· Utilize the Initiative Management Framework or MSFT Solutions Framework for a complete set of deliverables when managing projects.
Related projects completed as assigned
Job Process
· Build relationships with key stakeholders for validation of business requirements, end user experience assessments, work flow process documentation, communication plans and verification of system requirements to business requirements.
· Brings a broad and deep range of experience and take business models into account when driving solutions to complex business problems.
· Works independently on most problem-solving with a need to escalate for complex issues that span organizations.
· Focused on objectives that contribute to both technical and business aspects of operations strategies
· Defining the benefits of product through a business case analysis
· Formulating a distinctive strategy for supporting business needs by defining scope
· Clarifying and documenting vision, business rules and requirements
· Mapping progress against requirements throughout project
· To develop and maintain complex product components, by:
Mapping Process Models
Obtaining input from client/customer and team to see related satisfaction
· Insure high quality of implementation, deployment, and maintenance of complex products, by:
Clearly communicating the product or program plan to all key stakeholders
Communicating and adhering to all project processes, including by not limited to:
· Standard development life cycle
· Design/change requests
Acting as client/customer advocate & providing applicable product-related information
Writing or coordinating user acceptance tests and conducting sessions
Writing or ensuring user/training guides are completed and/or conducting training sessions
Reviewing product or programmatic processes with legal resources to insure compliancy
· Conduct post implementation reviews to understand satisfaction, issues, and items to improve upon in future projects and initiatives
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Enhance, Engage, and Entertain
For mobile and online advertising to be effective, we believe it needs to enhance, engage and entertain. Connecting with targeted audiences across multiple digital touch points is the key. At Microsoft, there’s something we understand deeply: the intersection of the consumer and technology. After all, we built our company around it. As more consumers spend more time online—always connected, using multiple devices—we’ll help you reach them.
As a senior individual contributor, can you answer these 3 questions:
Enhance: Have you empower the consumers as they access different media at various points throughout the day—from PCs to games to mobile devices—and even more in the future.?
Engage. The consumer preferences and behaviors as well as what the consumer is currently doing? Have balanced both internal and external users and consumers all of the markets online advertising and/or mobile advertising. Have you dynamically engage your brands and their audiences through innovative advertising products and platforms, delivered across a diverse range of digital media properties?
Entertain. Have you created compelling, enjoyable experiences that your consumers, businesses, and technology will want to be a part of? Have you delivered advertising impact through world-class partnership services, including innovative programs, knowledge sharing, and planning and service excellence?
The purpose of this blog is to empower you to connect with me in a different form. I am giving you a chance to showcase your talent. Let’s connect on Linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanreichert and get to know each other. Plus, check out our new career site: https://careers.microsoft.com
Hope to hear from you all soon!
Aloha,
BR
As a senior individual contributor, can you answer these 3 questions:
Enhance: Have you empower the consumers as they access different media at various points throughout the day—from PCs to games to mobile devices—and even more in the future.?
Engage. The consumer preferences and behaviors as well as what the consumer is currently doing? Have balanced both internal and external users and consumers all of the markets online advertising and/or mobile advertising. Have you dynamically engage your brands and their audiences through innovative advertising products and platforms, delivered across a diverse range of digital media properties?
Entertain. Have you created compelling, enjoyable experiences that your consumers, businesses, and technology will want to be a part of? Have you delivered advertising impact through world-class partnership services, including innovative programs, knowledge sharing, and planning and service excellence?
The purpose of this blog is to empower you to connect with me in a different form. I am giving you a chance to showcase your talent. Let’s connect on Linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanreichert and get to know each other. Plus, check out our new career site: https://careers.microsoft.com
Hope to hear from you all soon!
Aloha,
BR
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Googling with Bing!
Hey there. If you have not seen this, you have to check it out.
http://searchengineland.com/funny-googling-with-bing-21666
http://searchengineland.com/funny-googling-with-bing-21666
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Detecting Deception Presentation
Good Afternoon! So my friends on WARecruit (a Yahoo group for those not yet on there) sent out and interesting upcoming presentation I thought I'd share.
As Recruiters we always have to be on top of our game. Well Lesa Keller, President of the Washington State Chapter of the International Graphoanalysis Society, is bringing us a presentation presented by Scott Bird on Catching Liars and Detecting Deception in Handwriting.
Part 1, Catching Liars; The Truth is written all over our faces will be presented b Scott Bird based on the work by Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen. Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a standard to systematically categorize the physical expression of emotions. Scott is a student of handwriting and FACS and wants to share his insights.
Part 2, Detecting Deception in Handwriting. Breakout sessions with a Certified Handwriting Analyst to learn how to detect deception in writing samples.
Date: Saturday June 20th
Time: 9am-4pm
Location: 2100 24th Avenue (2100 Building) 3rd Floor
Seattle, WA 98144
Cost: $20.00 - Make check payable to WA IGAS
Send checks to: Lesa Keller, 15335 SE 179th St. Renton, WA 98058
***Please send your check in advance****
This meeting is open to any interested, so please feel free to join. Seating is limited however, so please connect with Lesa as soon as you can. Her contact info is below.
Lesa Keller
206.715.0234
lesa_keller@earthlink.net
http://connect.gonzaga.edu/graphoanalysis
As Recruiters we always have to be on top of our game. Well Lesa Keller, President of the Washington State Chapter of the International Graphoanalysis Society, is bringing us a presentation presented by Scott Bird on Catching Liars and Detecting Deception in Handwriting.
Part 1, Catching Liars; The Truth is written all over our faces will be presented b Scott Bird based on the work by Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen. Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a standard to systematically categorize the physical expression of emotions. Scott is a student of handwriting and FACS and wants to share his insights.
Part 2, Detecting Deception in Handwriting. Breakout sessions with a Certified Handwriting Analyst to learn how to detect deception in writing samples.
Date: Saturday June 20th
Time: 9am-4pm
Location: 2100 24th Avenue (2100 Building) 3rd Floor
Seattle, WA 98144
Cost: $20.00 - Make check payable to WA IGAS
Send checks to: Lesa Keller, 15335 SE 179th St. Renton, WA 98058
***Please send your check in advance****
This meeting is open to any interested, so please feel free to join. Seating is limited however, so please connect with Lesa as soon as you can. Her contact info is below.
Lesa Keller
206.715.0234
lesa_keller@earthlink.net
http://connect.gonzaga.edu/graphoanalysis
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Ba da bing http://www.bing.com/
Yes, yes, I said it. You expected something different?! So it's now been out a week or so, but I wanted to give you a couple hand fulls of reasons why you should BING it!
1) The graphic on bing changes daily. Use your mouse to hover over pics and read about the photograph. The shots are really great.
2) Once you search on something, you'll see a bar on your left which offers suggestions for related searches, or a search within a search. (type in any car name andsee the recommended next links which have been determined based on volume of "next clicks")
3) Often when we search we see a "best match" selection which has been determined based on some algorythm (or is it logorhythm?). I have found it is pretty accurate.
4) Type in Amazon.com and check out the fact that bing gives you the customer service # (well buried on the actual site) in the results.
5) Type in UPS or FedEx and see that you can track a package or call customer service.
6) Same for Nordies (Nordstrom) and then check out the related searches on the left.
7) Travel info is great. Type in flights from Seattle to Chicago and not the buy/do not buy now feature.
8) Type in "restaraunts" and notice that it returns local choices for you. For comparison, try it as well in Google, not quite the same.
9) Cool feature, the search history which shows up on the left. Once you have search results, hover over the short descriptions and notice that you get a "bubble" which gives you a bit more detail. This is designed so that you can identify which link isn't going to meet your needs, and which will. Should save you a lot of time.
10) Last feature, for now and that I now...I'm sure there are more. Note that on the left bar you can see your search history. If you want, you can save your search history which would be especially helpful if you are researching something and don't have the time to complete your search.
So give bing a try today!
1) The graphic on bing changes daily. Use your mouse to hover over pics and read about the photograph. The shots are really great.
2) Once you search on something, you'll see a bar on your left which offers suggestions for related searches, or a search within a search. (type in any car name andsee the recommended next links which have been determined based on volume of "next clicks")
3) Often when we search we see a "best match" selection which has been determined based on some algorythm (or is it logorhythm?). I have found it is pretty accurate.
4) Type in Amazon.com and check out the fact that bing gives you the customer service # (well buried on the actual site) in the results.
5) Type in UPS or FedEx and see that you can track a package or call customer service.
6) Same for Nordies (Nordstrom) and then check out the related searches on the left.
7) Travel info is great. Type in flights from Seattle to Chicago and not the buy/do not buy now feature.
8) Type in "restaraunts" and notice that it returns local choices for you. For comparison, try it as well in Google, not quite the same.
9) Cool feature, the search history which shows up on the left. Once you have search results, hover over the short descriptions and notice that you get a "bubble" which gives you a bit more detail. This is designed so that you can identify which link isn't going to meet your needs, and which will. Should save you a lot of time.
10) Last feature, for now and that I now...I'm sure there are more. Note that on the left bar you can see your search history. If you want, you can save your search history which would be especially helpful if you are researching something and don't have the time to complete your search.
So give bing a try today!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
My recruiting efforts update
Hey there everyone. I recently spoke with a couple of hiring managers in my org and have two incredible opportunities just open up. I'll share a few details below, and if you are interested in talking more about them, please feel free to call or email.
Role #1: Trade Marketing Lead (Redmond, WA or New York office)
The org I recruit for, Advertising and Publisher Solutions (APS) is looking for an experienced Marketing Manager type to help continue to define and drive the mobile advertising story for MS. While the title is Lead, this is a senior role and we are looking for someone with 8+ years experience in advertising/media/online marketing/mobile/publishing arena.
This is just a tidbit, and I'm happy to share a full job profile and talk more if you think it looks to be a match for the types of challenges you are looking to tackle.
Role #2: Senior Marketing Manager (Redmond, WA)
Another great role with an opportunity to contribute and have high impact to our global marekting strategy. Serving as a Brand Manager and Brand Champion this role will work closely with product planning, subsidiary marketing teams and other stakeholders to drive execution on positioning frameworks.
Several years of experience in marketing with roles in consumer, online and/or media space will help this person be successful.
Again, the above are just tidbits of info I wanted to share in an effort to get the word out. We have just started recruiting on these roles so please feel free to share.
Thanks and have a great day, BR
Bryan Reichert
Recruiting and Networking Dude
bryanre@microsoft.com
206.816.8320 direct line
Role #1: Trade Marketing Lead (Redmond, WA or New York office)
The org I recruit for, Advertising and Publisher Solutions (APS) is looking for an experienced Marketing Manager type to help continue to define and drive the mobile advertising story for MS. While the title is Lead, this is a senior role and we are looking for someone with 8+ years experience in advertising/media/online marketing/mobile/publishing arena.
This is just a tidbit, and I'm happy to share a full job profile and talk more if you think it looks to be a match for the types of challenges you are looking to tackle.
Role #2: Senior Marketing Manager (Redmond, WA)
Another great role with an opportunity to contribute and have high impact to our global marekting strategy. Serving as a Brand Manager and Brand Champion this role will work closely with product planning, subsidiary marketing teams and other stakeholders to drive execution on positioning frameworks.
Several years of experience in marketing with roles in consumer, online and/or media space will help this person be successful.
Again, the above are just tidbits of info I wanted to share in an effort to get the word out. We have just started recruiting on these roles so please feel free to share.
Thanks and have a great day, BR
Bryan Reichert
Recruiting and Networking Dude
bryanre@microsoft.com
206.816.8320 direct line
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Technology just plain ROCKS
Hey there people. Technology is so cool. If you are not familiar with TED or have not checked out the Sixth Sense demo., check it out.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
Meet Microsoft Staffing Consultant Steve Sim
Good Afternoon folks. I had the opportunity to sit down and talk shop with Steve Sim, Staffing Consultant (aka MS speak for Recruiter) for the Live Search/Core Search Engineering Team.
Our focus of this conversation was to talk about the Search group so I could get a little better idea about what is really going on there and what he is recruiting for.
The Search Team is doing some pretty cool stuff and it seems like they are continuing to make big strides in making Search effective. While we were chatting about this, Steve demonstrated a side by side comparison with one of our competitors and the results were pretty amazing (Check out www.live.com). Oh, and try comparing video or image search results for a very different experience. And not just the results it yielded, but the layout as well.
While still in beta, I have access to Kumo (I'm a blue-badger too) and I ran some of my own searches for candidates, blogs, images, etc all in an effort to find those involved with the Mobile Advertising Space (my plug that this is going to be an area of growth for us:-)). Kumo came back with some different, and equally strong results as the competition.
Now I'm not sure when official launch is of our new version of Search, but when you do get access, give it a whirl. I think you will see some great enhancements and improvements to what you are seeing and using now.
On a recruiting front, for those of you looking for incredible technology challenges and love the web services space, check out what the Search Team has to offer. You can find Steve on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesimrecruiting.
Feel free to follow me on Twitter for job highlights, future interviews and much more.
Enjoy your day
Our focus of this conversation was to talk about the Search group so I could get a little better idea about what is really going on there and what he is recruiting for.
The Search Team is doing some pretty cool stuff and it seems like they are continuing to make big strides in making Search effective. While we were chatting about this, Steve demonstrated a side by side comparison with one of our competitors and the results were pretty amazing (Check out www.live.com). Oh, and try comparing video or image search results for a very different experience. And not just the results it yielded, but the layout as well.
While still in beta, I have access to Kumo (I'm a blue-badger too) and I ran some of my own searches for candidates, blogs, images, etc all in an effort to find those involved with the Mobile Advertising Space (my plug that this is going to be an area of growth for us:-)). Kumo came back with some different, and equally strong results as the competition.
Now I'm not sure when official launch is of our new version of Search, but when you do get access, give it a whirl. I think you will see some great enhancements and improvements to what you are seeing and using now.
On a recruiting front, for those of you looking for incredible technology challenges and love the web services space, check out what the Search Team has to offer. You can find Steve on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesimrecruiting.
Feel free to follow me on Twitter for job highlights, future interviews and much more.
Enjoy your day
Friday, April 17, 2009
Job Seeker Network meeting details
Aloha Friday! Wanted to share the details with you of the upcoming meeting. Hope you can make it.
No fees or charges, but space is limited so you MUST RSVP.
Attention all Recruiters and Job Seekers! If you are looking to network, seek employment opportunities, or seek to assist others in their search, this is a great place to be.
We'll exchange ideas and make new connections.
A private room at the Newport Way Public Library has been reserved for our next meeting.
Newport Way Library
14250 S.E. Newport Way
Bellevue, WA 98006
Monday April 27th
5:45-6:15 Room set up and social time
6:15 - Introductions and discussion
6:45 Program
8:15 adjourn
Must RSVP. Feel free to bring own drink and snack. In the event you can't make it, please follow up as soon as possible to cancel that someone on the waitlist can be contacted.
Thank you all in advance for your participation. See you there.
Lesa Keller, SPHR (also seeking a Human Resource Manager position)
206.715.0234
lesa_keller@earthlink.net
No fees or charges, but space is limited so you MUST RSVP.
Attention all Recruiters and Job Seekers! If you are looking to network, seek employment opportunities, or seek to assist others in their search, this is a great place to be.
We'll exchange ideas and make new connections.
A private room at the Newport Way Public Library has been reserved for our next meeting.
Newport Way Library
14250 S.E. Newport Way
Bellevue, WA 98006
Monday April 27th
5:45-6:15 Room set up and social time
6:15 - Introductions and discussion
6:45 Program
8:15 adjourn
Must RSVP. Feel free to bring own drink and snack. In the event you can't make it, please follow up as soon as possible to cancel that someone on the waitlist can be contacted.
Thank you all in advance for your participation. See you there.
Lesa Keller, SPHR (also seeking a Human Resource Manager position)
206.715.0234
lesa_keller@earthlink.net
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Big win for Microsoft Advertising
Good Morning. Just wanted to add this in case you have not seen it. Big win for MS Advertising for sure.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a3645oEwE.Fc&refer=us
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a3645oEwE.Fc&refer=us
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tidbit on Time Management w/Social Networking
Myspace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, etc. Manage them all with ping.fm. It will help bring some simplicity to your life. Trust me.
Your friendly networker
Your friendly networker
Friday, April 3, 2009
Update on Google bid to acquire Twitter
Aloha Friday. For those of you who who have not heard, Google continues to shop. And I'm with the author, I'd like to see Twitter continue to grow on their own for a while longer.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/sources-google-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-twitter/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/sources-google-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-twitter/
Thursday, April 2, 2009
April 13th Job Seeker details
Hey there, as promised, here are the details for the April 13th Job Seeker meeting:
Monday April 13th
5:30pm-8:30pm
Bellevue Public Library - Room 3
Bellevue, WA
5:30pm-6:15 - Social Time
6:15-6:45 - Introductions and Discusstion
6:45 - Program
No fees or charges, but space is limited so you MUST RSVP.
So if you have a desire to make new connections, build your network and assist others with the job search, then this is the place to be.
Bring a beverage and snack and come participate.
Fore questions, please contact:
Lesa Keller
lesa_keller@earthlink.net
206.715.9234
Look forward to seeing you all there.
Monday April 13th
5:30pm-8:30pm
Bellevue Public Library - Room 3
Bellevue, WA
5:30pm-6:15 - Social Time
6:15-6:45 - Introductions and Discusstion
6:45 - Program
No fees or charges, but space is limited so you MUST RSVP.
So if you have a desire to make new connections, build your network and assist others with the job search, then this is the place to be.
Bring a beverage and snack and come participate.
Fore questions, please contact:
Lesa Keller
lesa_keller@earthlink.net
206.715.9234
Look forward to seeing you all there.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Job Seeker Networking Event
Good Evening. So while this event took place Monday night, I share b/c there is another one coming April 13th. For those of you in the HR and Recruiting profession, if you are not part of WARecruit (can be found via Yahoo Groups), you should join. It's a great local Seattle/Puget Sound org to be a part of for networking.
I had a chance to follow up with my new associate and friend Lesa, who is big part of why this event took place and is happening again. It was a success and lots of new connections were made. I will keep this post short this time, but definitely wanted to get it out there in front of everyone.
I will be getting the flier for the next one soon and will get it on here as a reminder. But for now, make note of the date, April 13th.
I will be making time in my schedule so I can attend. Hope I see you there. BR
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