Kay Kelison's Digital-Log

Does being an integral member of the team that is building out the Microsoft cloud for hundreds of millions of daily users sound exciting to you? Are you passionate, high energy and do you have a desire to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services? GFS is responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability.

Your first thoughts may be that you’re happy where you are at the moment, however I would love the opportunity to provide you with information on these impactful roles that may pleasantly surprise you. I’d like to know what motivates you: Is it intellectual challenges; breadth and depth of responsibilities; freedom; money; career growth?

The Global Foundation Services Team will be hosting a recruiting event in Boston, Mass. July 9^th thru July 13^th 2012 (travel & accommodations for qualified applicants included)! If you are interest to learn more please reach out to me directly via LinkedIn or contact Kay Kelison at kaykel@microsoft.com!  I invite you to join our Talent Community then clicking “Join Our Talent Network” and be engaged! Please share this with anyone and everyone as widely as possible in your network!”

Have you ever considered relocating to the U.S.? Have you ever dreamed about completely revolutionizing the way the world interacts with the internet? Engineers at Bing aim for nothing less than to solve the biggest challenges in computing related to social, local, relevance, computer vision, machine learning, semantic discovery, R&D, data mining and NLP and have the best resources in the world available to them. Have you ever thought about working at Microsoft? If so, then we have some career opportunities that will interest you.

We’ll be visiting Dublin, Ireland May 4^th to 6^th 2012 AND May 8th to 10^th for a recruiting event with some of the senior development directors and managers on the Bing Development Team and I’d love to know whether you’re interested in learning more about career opportunities with Bing in the United States at our corporate HQ in Redmond WA, OR if you can offer me any assistance connecting with others in the European software industry. Our intent at this recruiting event will be to interview highly skilled developers from Europe for U.S. based positions on the Microsoft Bing Development Team. If you’d like to learn more OR if you know anyone else who might, please email me as soon as possible at kaykel@microsoft.com

With today's mobile space, employers are creating mobile websites to allow professionals to be notified when the right job comes along. So you have signed up to receive a notification about an opportunity that you'd like to apply for and you don’t have access to your resume. Now, you might be one of those who will wait to get home to your computer to send it, or maybe you might even forget or be too late in applying because of the what type a day you are having. However, if you had a mobile app that could create a mobile resume that could be submitted via mobile no matter where you are this would give you another edge from others in your job search. Below I have given some instructions to how to create a resume, and some of the apps with iPhone, Android, Windows.

Suggested Steps

v  Choose a mobile app that allows you to create a resume. These mobile applications should allow you to access your resume from your mobile device. Important to review and the app should allow you to create and share your resume with potential employers.

v  Create an account through the apps website. These apps allow you to upload or create your resume online or mobile. You can then use resume as a doc to upload to an employer’s website. You can also create a word doc on your computer, save it in a PDF file, down load the PDF reader which will allow you to open your resume in a PDF, and send it via email, etc. Pretty cool.

v  Be sure to enter your relevant information into a mobile application of your choice from your mobile device. A popular application is Resume Bear (resumebear.com) for both iPhone and Android mobile devices. This free application allows you to send your resume to potential employers from your phone and see who has been reading your resume. It’s my favorite on usability, simplicity and the fact you can see has been reading your resume….pretty sweet!

v  Most importantly! Keep your resume updated with current information. Remember that potential employers are looking at and asking for your resume, whether it is on a website or in your mobile application.

Recommended Apps:

I am also a technical recruiter working for OSD/Bing division and would encourage you to join our talent network to keep up with the latest Bing job opportunities, or apply for a specific job today.  To join our community, click HERE and look for the orange box in the upper right corner that says "Join Our Talent Network" to opt in. One of the best places to connect with recruiters and get noticed!

NEW DATE FOR OUR EVENT

“Invent the Future with Qi Lu – Come Join Our Bing Team

Bing will be hosting a recruiting event in Sydney, Australia the week of January 30^th thru February 3^rd, 2012 to recruit top talent from all over Australia and  neighboring  countries and our focus will be:

• Software Development Engineer (SDE)
• Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
• Program Managers
• UX Designers with Portfolios

All experienced levels who are interested in relocating to the U.S. At this time, we are looking to hire for the roles listed below.

To learn more, please send your information and an updated Resume/CV to: kaykel@microsoft.com. The Online Services Division is the driving force behind Microsoft's search and online innovations. Our product portfolio includes: Bing, Bing Mobile, MSN, Ads Platform, and Global Foundation Services.
Join our talent network to keep up with the latest Bing job opportunities, or apply for a specific job today. To join our community, click HERE and look for the orange box in the upper right corner that says "Join Our Talent Network" to opt in.

Here is a summary of our awesome Bing Dream Team who you will be meeting while in Sydney, Australia:

Bing Dream Teams

Bing Design Team

"We've built a design team with good soul and we've really found the beat to the music!" -Laura Kern, User Experience Director, Bing

Have you ever considered how design can be a driving force in radically transforming how all the information on the web can be organized and accessed? Are you looking for a challenge that encompasses a broad set of design issues? Do you want to work in a highly supportive environment that's low on hierarchy and high on team based collaboration? Bing Design group is seeking an exceptional designers for creating beautiful, elegant and impactful design solutions. The Bing Design team's mission is to create a usable and memorable experience for Bing. Our designers strive to be one step ahead of Google, and create innovative design solutions that go above and beyond the traditional paradigms of search engines.

*All candidates must send a portfolio or work samples along with their inquiries. Please indicate your specific roles and contributions for each project submitted as part of the portfolio.

Bing Index Platform Team

Do you want to work on the largest scale service at Microsoft? Do you want to go head to head with the toughest service competition facing Microsoft? Are you passionate about building a service that tens of millions of people interact with every day, all over the world, with superb quality, high performance and low cost? Do you want to pursue the cutting edge of computer science?

If so, Index Platform is the team for you. We are the search engine of Bing, and we provide the platform foundation for Bing and the Online Service Division. Index Platform is a large distributed system to serve Search results at a scale of thousands of queries per second, from thousands of servers, going through billions of documents, with relevance, in a matter of milliseconds. We're building our search service as a platform that developers inside and outside of Microsoft can use to build rich applications.

As a Program Manager on this team, you will define the vision and strategy, drive design and architecture, manage execution, interface with customers and partners, collaborate with developers and testers, excel in communication and presentation, have the abilities and skills to influence senior management and broad features teams, own multiple services or features with accountability.

This is an energetic and productive group with a startup atmosphere, where anything is possible. It is a result driven, agile and adaptive. We are working on technologies and products that require large investments and have long term impacts to our company's success and at the heart of the customer experience of the internet.

The Bing Client Team

The Bing Clients team integrates search and IQ gleaned from the internet into users' daily experiences like web browsing, watching TV, or playing games. Through this work, we hope to make it more convenient and personally relevant for users to harness the power of the web in their day-to-day lives. We do this today through products like the BingBar (an extension for Internet Explorer) and our upcoming Kinect/voice-powered Bing for Xbox; going forward, we're looking for even more exciting ways to integrate search seamlessly into users' lives.

Bing Test Organization

Are you interested in applying novel data mining and machine learning approaches to detect and correct defects at unfathomable scale? Or rather, are you passionate about engineering fundamentals; innovating on infrastructure tools and services and enabling engineering agility? Or maybe you are passionate about designing and implementing systems analytics and measurement; enabling telemetry across hundreds of thousands of machines near realtime? In the Bing Test Organization, we are focused on driving quality in various dimensions across Bing. In order to succeed, we need passionate and highly skilled engineers to fill our ranks. We are hiring for several engineering positions (Software Design Engineers and Software Design Engineers in Test).

Bing Development Organization

Do you like to work on the hardest problems in computing with the biggest user impact? Is Search your vision of computing's future, but it isn't nearly there yet? Want to be the one to make it happen?

We work on the cutting edge of computer science, where a petabyte of data is "small," ten thousand machines is a "little cluster," and one second is an "eternity." Our tools include machine learning models and the world's largest distributed system. We are a high powered startup inside of Microsoft, working on technology and products that are critical to our company's success and at the heart of the customer experience of the internet.

Hopefully you've had a chance to experience Microsoft's new search engine Bing and seen how we're changing the game in Search. Bing is receiving amazing reviews and generating lots of great buzz. Bing has had a fantastic year so far. After the successful brand launch earlier this year, the team has been working hard, both on closing the gap with our competitors in key areas like relevance, as well as driving thought leadership with new paradigms for search and user experience. This is probably one of most exciting times to be on the team, and you have an opportunity to help shape its future.

I am blown away on how there is hesitation to explore this technology.  Why not maximize mobile to its full potential?  What is the hesitation?  As a sourcer, I rather not sit behind a desk and hope I can find talent.  I want to be learning some of the best tips and tricks from Mobile Industry Leaders on how I can engage, brand and bring in amazing talent by using my mobile phone! Recruiting is more than just resumes, social networks, etc. I know what you are thinking… it’s just another tool to learn, and you don’t have time, but – wait a minute – how much time do you spend on your mobile?  It can’t take that much more time to invest and learn how to streamline your sourcing and recruiting engagement with your mobile!   Mobile allows you to create an instant way to start conversations while you are “on the go”!  I predict that mobile recruiting will become the next art form of conversation! Be sure to use your mobile engagement powers for good, by starting conversations, creating engagement and building relationships with Talent now and in the future! I am really excited to be attending this event and hope that if you are interested in forward thinking, and new ways to use our current technologies to make our engagement practices easier, that you will attend as well!!  Mobile Recruiting is such the obvious! Follow @mrec on twitter! Hope to see you there!

Let’s start the revolution NOW!

Diversity is defined by a single word: variety — which basically means different.

But very few people follow up with the question:

 “Different in what way?”  The next question we all want to ask, and don’t, is this: “How and why is diversity important in the workplace?”

We can all agree that we really just need to find the right skill, the right talent for our companies and clients.

But I really want to explore further on why we NEED “different” perspectives. Because…

In my mind, “different” represents areas such as culture, ideas, values, lifestyles, classes, goals, and so forth.

“Different” – and therefore “diverse” – is NOT just about gender and/or skin color. It is so much more than that.

When asking a group of people what they think diversity means – recruiting professionals in particular — the perspective ranges all over the place. In our country alone we have a wide variety of different

cultures, and when we discuss these differences from a recruiting perspective, they are all lumped into one common word, which is diversity. You see what I mean? Read full article here

With the HUGE Family 4th at Lake Union which has become one and only large-scale Fourth of July fireworks show in Seattle; not to mention an EVEN  larger transportation/parking/people nightmare and while obviously thousands of people don’t mind huge crowds, if you’re like me with small kids and looking for a less crowded and much quieter spot to view fireworks you might consider viewing the city of Kirkland’s fireworks. 

We discovered Warren G. Magnuson Park on Sandpoint Way in northeast Seattle is directly across Lake Washington from Kirkland and offers a terrific view of fireworks that’s comparable to watching the Gasworks fireworks from the south end of Lake Union. They aren’t right overhead, but families with young children who are frightened by big displays often find it’s exactly the right distance for the tots. Kirkland also puts on a good show and promises an extra special finale this year.

Magnuson Park has plenty of parking spots even with the construction going on to improve the park, and if you want to make a day of it, there’s a lifeguard stationed at the swimming beach and plenty of places for a picnic. The park stays open until 11:30 pm and the Kirkland fireworks start at 9:00 pm.

The Bonus  of a lakeside viewpoint is that Magnuson is situated to see small fireworks displays all up and down Lake Washington and despite the bans many communities put on personal fireworks, there are a lot of small displays ringing the lake. It’s pretty spectacular.

We'll be heading down around 7 for an evening of fun! Maybe we'll see you there! 

Happy Fourth! The Kelison Family