By Heather Hamilton Originally posted on One Louder Microsoft has been holding the Imagine Cup annually for six years now. Here's how the event is described: Everything that the world may become "someday" lies in the hands of young people today. As they look at the road ahead, their close...

By Heather Hamilton Originally posted on One Louder This article in eWeek is timely; this is exactly what is going on with me. While I love having the flexibility to work from home, it can be isolating. Sometimes you need to be around people. So I am more frequently dropping into the office for just...

By Heather Hamilton Originally posted on One Louder ...index cards. I swear. When I was in high school, a teacher taught us how to use note cards to construct a paper: you make an outline, transfer it to note cards and then add extra cards throughout to supplement with content. You re-order, create transitions...

By Heather Hamilton Here's an article I wrote recently for Pragmatic Marketing , which appeared in their February newsletter. Thought I'd reprint here and share a little link love. And for the record, I am not the one that used the word "expert" to describe myself; that was their editorializing...

Spoof video shown at CES on Bill's last day. I'm still kind of amazed that we can get some of these people to do this stuff. Heather Hamilton Staffing Manager Strategic Talent Acquisition, Community and Research Microsoft Corporation [Video]

For all my facebook love, I'm ready for it to stop being such a skanky kid. I know that it's just people writing these facebook apps, but when I get an invitation to an application involving "meet(ing) new people", I don't really want to get cheesy flirt messages from some web addicted...

Here's an article about working on your laptop during meetings. Since my team is remote, we admittedly spend time during meetings on the old laptop. You know, when the meeting takes a turn toward something not particularly relevant to you. It's hard not to do that when the meeting takes place...

I got a question from blog reader on the importance of the MBA. It's a great question. Many of our job descriptions list the MBA as "preferred"; some may even list it as a requirement. I'll give you my personal opinion on this. Keep in mind that I didn't write these job descriptions. If I wrote the job...

I'm not sure why I haven't recommended this earlier. I guess that we get used to what we need to do in our daily jobs and forget what kind of info might be important to someone who doesn't get to see it from the inside. I have a little tip that might help you get your resume in front of a hiring manager...

Marc Andreessen blogs about how to hire the best for a start-up and uses Microsoft and Google as models. One difference between the two, I would say, is the GPA thing. You might get a different sound byte if you ask a college recruiter here but I don't give a rip about your GPA. The disadvantage most...