By Elizabeth Hoogs Hi all! My name is Elizabeth Hoogs, my friends call me Liz, and I am a Staffing Consultant for the College Recruiting Team at Microsoft. I recruit at specifically targeted schools, namely University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Microsoft Office 2010 Product clave, Rice University, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Primarily hiring software development positions for Microsoft’s large business groups, I have unique exposure to different candidates, technologies, and technical leaders within the company. From the Northeast originally, I moved to Seattle in August 2004 because my sister and brother-in-law lived out here. Through a series of friends, I found my way into a contract role in the College Recruiting Group. I knew immediately that I loved the challenge, satisfaction, and variety inherent in recruiting and worked very hard to prove my passion and value to the group. I was soon hired on as a full time technical recruiter onto the College Team (yes, it does happen Eric!). I love working with candidates to find them the right home, and it’s really satisfying to know that I am able to affect Microsoft by finding and maintaining top talent and intellect within an increasingly competitive industry. Today is a really exciting day for my group. We’re celebrating the end of our fiscal year and beating our goal set for hiring future full time employees! That includes SDE, SDET, PM, HR, Marketing, IT, Sales,
Office 2010 Pro Plus, and Finance positions. I feel lucky to be part of a team of strong,
Microsoft Office Pro, smart, and dedicated people and can’t wait for next year! Go College!
As for me, I guess a few personal tidbits are in order . I have so many hobbies, I keep myself really busy outside of work. In a given week, I might play soccer, kickball, go to an acting class,
Office Standard 2010 Key, run around Greenlake, and go out to dinner or happy hour with friends. Weekends are usually taken up with hiking, snowboarding, cooking, poker nights, farmers markets,
Microsoft Office 2010 Serial, brunch and bike rides. Look for more posts from me soon