This week marks my one-year anniversary at Microsoft. Excuse me, while I make my acceptance speech. “I like to thank God and my parents for making me possible and all of the little people I stepped on to get me where I am today. I love you all!!!” (Seriously, big love to my fellow Microsofties to numerous to name here.) [...]

Here is another Sourcing with MSN trick. Hope you like. . MSN Spaces is Microsoft’s free blogging product and its full of people to recruit for your open reqs!!! Let me show you what I mean. . 1. Go to MSN Spaces and click the “Advanced People Search” link. . 2. Additional search options appear such as: “Occupation.” Hmm… Let’s [...]

If you like the macro trick I just showed you, then no doubt you want to visit the Microsoft Gadgets page and look over other macros (mine included) made by Microsoft users. For more detail on Macros, check out the MS Search Blog. Technorati Tags: research, recruiting, sourcing, Internet research, HR, microsoft, windows live Related PostsWindows Live saves me sourcing [...]

I love researching the internet, but it can be time-consuming. Here is one method I use to save time on my searches. (The screenshots are a bit blurry, simply click on them to get a full view.) . 1. Go to the Windows Live homepage and input your search query. (Its a freebie if you do not already have an [...]

I love researching the internet, but it can be time-consuming. Here is one method I use to save time on my searches. (The screenshots are a bit blurry, simply click on them to get a full view.) . 1. Go to the Windows Live homepage and input your search query. (Its a freebie if you do not already have an [...]

This week marks my one-year anniversary at Microsoft.  Excuse me, while I make my acceptance speech. “I like to thank God and my parents for making me possible and all of the little people I stepped on to get me where I am today. I love you all!!!” (Seriously, big love to my fellow Microsofties to numerous to name here.) [...]

I have worked with some really good phone sourcers who are absolute wizards in getting intelligence out of whomever answers the other end of their call. But I wonder if anyone I have worked with could talk themselves out of this situation. Consider this: Murderer Richard McNair just escaped from a federal penitentiary by hiding in a prison warehouse and [...]

Check out this cool recruitment video from the Navy. Very subtle and slick in how it catches your attention.  [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_UcMtpMA98[/youtube] Click here to play the interactive version on the Navy site. Technorati Tags: military, recruiting, video   Related PostsMILITARY – Navy seals are recruiting extreme sports candidatesHow Companies Can Help Military Veterans Transition Into Civilian JobsVIDEO – Cool Recruitment Video [...]

Here’s a thought, what if Bin Laden farted? And what if there was technology available to track said fart around the world? Sounds nutty, right? Well… check out this blog post from DefenseTech. –snip-snip– The Pentagon’s fringe science arm wants to keep track of potential enemies-of-the-state in every way imaginable: not just by sight, or by sound, or by their [...]

I signed up recently to be on the beta list for TalentSpy. In a nutshell, its a Job matching service. Job seekers post a profile. Employers create a selection of criteria by which potential candidates are filtered and each day the candidates that fulfill those criteria are delivered to the employer via email, RSS or by searching the website. Launch [...]

. Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, one of the earliest computer programmmers and widow of ENIAC and UNIVAC co-inventor John Mauchly recently died at age 85. She and other women mathmeticians were recruited to work on the secret ENIAC computer during WW2. Since then Antonelli contributed to the understanding of early computer history through speeches and articles. Follow this link to [...]

This is an old post, but still relevant I think. I would never condone using this technology for sourcing candidates or competitive intelligence, but if I were Jack Bauer… Check out this snippet… Watching the news these past few weeks, you would think that hackers have taken over our cellphones. From the Paris Hilton phone hack (which was not Bluetooth-based), [...]

The United States government is planning to spend roughly $13M USD on computers from Lenovo. The company, famous for buying up IBM’s PC manufacturing arm, is working on a deal with the US government to produce roughly 16,000 computers. Just recently, the U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission (USCC) has requested that Lenovo be probed for any concerns about possible spying, [...]

Ummm… uhhh…. comments? A D.C. district court has allowed a “transgenderâ€? federal employee to sue for sex discrimination under Title VII. The court ruled there were issues requiring factual development, and therefore denied a motion to dismiss. This ruling does not ensure an ultimate victory for the plaintiff, but merely allows litigation to proceed. The basic facts raised in the [...]

Okay, this was too funny, not to share… Hob Gadling says: “If you’ve visited India, you’ll know that driving is akin to a martial art. (They don’t give black belts yet, but they should!) Here’s a video I found on ‘It Rocks Everything’ showing a small intersection in India. Things to look out for: * The pedestrian momentarily trapped between [...]