I’ve received a number of concerns lately from recruiters along with other personnel asking regardless of whether or not it’s ok for an worker to publish a Microsoft profession description on his / her blog. My answer … Yes,
Microsoft Office 2010 Pro Plus, it’s totally okay,
Office 2007 Standard Key, and it is a great idea. That said, there are some guidelines you should follow if you plan to post information about a occupation opening on your weblog …. Link back to the official position description on No,
Office Professional 2007 Key, I don’t want to raise the Google rank of /careers. ;-) We just need to make sure that, when soliciting resumes for specific jobs, those jobs are actually currently open and available, and we also want to give applicants the opportunity to apply via our website if they prefer. More legal mumbo-jumbo here, but moving on ... Submit each resume you receive to your recruiter. Two reasons for this … 1) Our legal department says so. As a company, we are accountable to ensure each applicant’s record and information is entered into our database. There are some legal reasons behind this, but I won’t go into that here. 2) Gretchen says so. Just because an applicant isn’t a fit for your opening doesn’t mean he or she won’t be an awesome match for another opening within the company. We want to ensure we look at that applicant for all positions. Note the “source” of the resume. I encourage this one because source data provides Recruiting with great backend information that may help us make smarter decisions down the road. If an applicant contacts you due to a posting on your weblog, send the resume to your recruiter and ask that he or she enter it into our database with this source: DS – Internet Research – Microsoft Weblogs / MSDN. Your recruiter will know what to do that with that data. (I just requested that source code today, so if for some reason that info changes, I’ll edit it here.) Always follow-up with each applicant. If people take the time to send you resumes, they deserve responses. You aren’t required to give applicants a yes or no answer (because frankly, we have so many jobs open at any given time, you won’t know the answer),
Office Professional 2007, but it is important to say “thank you” and to set their expectations appropriately. If you’d like help crafting a “thank you for applying” email,
Cheap Office 2007, contact your recruiter or just email me and I can help. Include the “job description behind the work description.” Don’t just post the sanitized, PR-ish position opening on your blog. Tell your readers why this occupation is compelling and provide them with more in-depth information. Give them an account of a “day in the life” of this hire. Link to other resources like your product’s webpage or a Channel9 profile of a team member. Describe what you think it would take for an applicant to be successful on the team. Share your own experiences about the team. Tell them why your product matters. Other suggestions (but not required) …. Send a link to your publish to Jason Davis with Blogger Jobs. His site lists “Jobs Posted By Bloggers or Jobs For Bloggers.” <Edit 2/27: You can email these links directly to Jeremy C. Wright, and he can post them on Blogger Jobs.> Get a link to your group’s open positions on your product’s corporate page. Customers who use and want to learn more about your product may also be interested in helping create your product. I could have sworn Exchange had something like this on their page, but I can’t find it now for the life of me. But how cool it would be if you visited IE’s page and saw a link to this ... or better yet what if you visited MSN Search and saw this? I know that last point has nothing to do with blogging but just wanted to throw that one in. Hope this guide helps! gretchen