Microsoft has released a new recruitment site aimed at current college and MBA grads, called “View My World.” The most interesting thing about the web site is the types of jobs Microsoft is highlighting there.Openings on the Xbox,
Cheap Office 2010, Zune,
Cheap Windows 7, Silverlight, Windows Live and Windows Mobile teams get top billing on ViewMyWorld. The Flash-based web page uses video clips,
Office 2010 Pro, links to blogs and RSS feeds to show off the up-and-coming opportunities at the company on primarily consumer-focused teams. There are interviews with present-day (and predominantly young) Microsoft employees — as well as a couple of now-former employees who are made to seem as if they;re still on staff.(There are also a few “Singing Cowboy” videos interspersed throughout the web page. Staffing Manager Heather Hamilton advises those without a sense of humor to forgo those. And no,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007, the cowboy is not a Microsoft employee, in case anyone was wondering.)The ViewMyWorld web site is a lot more like Microsoft;s slick “On10″ marketing site than it;s like the traditional Microsoft Jobs website (to which the ViewMyWorld web site links).But what;s most telling to me about the new website is that Microsoft seems to see the jobs in its primarily money-losing sectors — rather than its lucrative Windows,
Purchase Windows 7, Office and Servers businesses — as being plum posts for new Microsoft recruits. I wonder: Would a hotshot just out of a good school really be more interested in joining the Microsoft Zune team than the Windows one?I wasn;t convinced by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie;s contention voiced earlier this year that the most interesting innovations in technology are coming from the consumer market and that tech companies without a consumer presence will face a tough road ahead. I wonder if that argument holds more sway with recent grads ….
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