Kay Kelison's Digital-Log

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.

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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

What gives you warm fuzzies? Do you appreciate the value of the social network that you are creating around you? More than the warm fuzzies; do you realize many other benefits that you give when you’re involve with networking opportunities in the communities? They are endless and exist everywhere.

Newsflash: I’m not just talking about “social networks” in the digital form. I’m talking about helping out those who need your help, joining an organization, or simply stopping by that next Tweet-up event. It will be time well spent.

If you are currently looking for work as well, it can serve as another way to connect with potential employers or to build new relationships with individuals that can help you with your job search. It would be a good time to learn new skills or enhance skills you already have. Use it as a resume builder. It’s perfectly acceptable to list societies and affiliations on your resume. You may have a mentor that can serve as a great professional or personal reference as well. Choose an organization around which you have a passion. Your hours could lead to a permanent, paid position with the organization or those that see your work valuable. For example, if you are seeking work as an engineer, offer your time as an engineer and work on their website. Hiring managers look for talent that aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and are willing to go above and beyond the expected.

More and more employers are recognizing the value of in-person networking. Like Microsoft, we are encouraged as employees to become more involved in organizations and volunteer our time to give back to our local community. And since it is essential that businesses be a responsible corporate citizen, employees who are more willing to give of their personal time are highly valued. Naturally there are benefits to the employer by this kind of involvement; however, there are also direct benefits to the employees as well. This allows you to develop new relationships or advance your career as well as just enjoying the fun of networking.

There are a ton of networking groups you can become involved with, depending on your available time, interests, desired benefits, and willingness to be involved. Most choose to join an organization that is connected to their profession. These groups offer professional development and other tangible in-person benefits as well as online resources such as blogs or fan pages and the ability to connect with other professionals.

Other forms of networking opportunities include the more casual contact groups, such as a local special interest groups or meet-ups, etc. These groups offer participants an opportunity to meet other community members with similar interests. They may host and offer special programs to you as a member or the social opportunity to meet other like people on a more casual level. These groups are always looking for volunteers to serve on committees, provide leadership opportunities and unlimited business contacts.

These groups casual or professional can give you the ability to give something back to your community while making valuable contacts. These groups are often nationally or internationally based, but they have direct local benefits, with members giving back to their communities through volunteer projects or monetary support. They meet regularly, both creating friendships and building business relationships.

Some networks may target a specific age or gender groups, just as young professionals or women’s business organizations. Despite how great all these networking opportunities may sound, some people will struggle to find the time to attend regular meetings or meet the requirements of the organization. There are still many ways to network outside of these structured organizations. Volunteer at your church, your child’s school; join a local low key club. These will benefit your family as well as your career by building bonds and making invaluable connections. Non-profits are always seeking volunteers – offer a few hours of your time to your favorite cause such as the American Cancer Society or Girl Scouts. Your child’s group leader may be your potential future employer.

If you are serious about developing your social network, there are no quick fixes: you must go out get involved and meet people that could be your boss, co-worker or reference. Don’t let chance decide where you would like to spend your time and efforts. Give back, take your time and choose an organization or group that will provide the desired benefits, for the time you want to offer. No matter what group you end up participating in – because it’s not called “net-sit” or “net-eat”, it’s called “net-work”. You must ‘be engaged’ be a contributor, not just a joiner. Be engaged – offer your experience, skills and talents to those you associate with. You WILL meet new friends, strengthen your personal and professional as well as provide a means to grow your relationships.

Microsoft’s Online Services Division (OSD/BING) will be attending NSBE’s 37^th Annual Convention held on March 23-27 in St. Louis, MO.  Our booth is located at #908 from 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM on Thursday, March 24^th and Friday, March 25^th.  Microsoft and OSD truly believe that we can only perform at our best if we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment.  Diversity enriches our products and performance by reflecting the needs and ideas of our increasingly global and diverse community.  Stop by our booth and say “Hello!”  If you don’t want to wait in-line, send email your resume to kaykel@microsoft.com and I will send it to the team!  We are seeking talented Software Development Engineers in Test, Program Managers and Analysts to name just a few of the many positions we have open in OSD. Join the community and get engaged!