An interview with Heather Hamilton, Microsoft Blog Diva.
According to Heather's Blog, "... my role is to find excellent marketing talent for positions across Microsoft, regardless of the business group. I can help great marketers find the right role at Microsoft. I'm looking for new ways to reach out to the tech marketing population, evaluate who are the best and get them here."
If you have any interest in working for Microsoft, you should read Heather's blog. If you've never worked for a large Fortune 100 company and would like some insight -- Heather will give you a real, first-person sense of what it's like. Her common-sense advice is hard to find and incredibly valuable. The conversational and personal tone of her blog will give you the feeling of having a professional recruiter, and good friend to help guide your career.
I am a marketing geek and I hope you don't mind that I am writing this is in the first person.
I started recruiting finance and accounting professionals in 1994 in Chicago...great city...very cold. After a few years, I realized that things don't change that much in accounting (GAAP gets reviewed what...evey 5 or 10 years?). So my goal was to get into technical recruiting.
I joined a "large-ish" tech consulting firm that focused on application development, application oursourcing and Y2K remediation. The year was 1997 and let's be honest....I hired mainframe programmers to ensure that the lights didn't turn off and your credit card still worked at midnight 12/31/99. Got my bearings in technology and moved along...
To the ever changing world of insurance! I joined a large, multi-line insurance company hiring tech folks for in-house application development positions. The company was just getting into eCommerce (I haven't heard that term in a while) and I was excited to lead the technical recruiting team. That's when Microsoft called.
I joined Microsoft in 1999. My first role was focused on hiring software developers, program managers and system engineers for Microsoft.com. Boy was I lucky...this group was great and I had so much fun staffing their teams. Big shout out to microsoft.com if any of you ever see this blog ; )
Then I was asked to focus on marketing positions. Product Manager, Marketing Managers, PR Managers, Advertising, Market Research, Partner Development, Business Development. For some reason, this space really resonated with me and I've become a bit of a subject-matter-expert on marketing staffing at Microsoft. I've supported our Central Marketing Group (Advertising and Events, Market Research, Branding, PR), Audience and Segment Marketing organizations (IT Pro, Enterprise) and Product Management and Business Development (Windows, Embedded, MSN, Platform Strategy).
Now my role is to find excellent marketing talent for positions across Microsoft, regardless of the business group. I can help great marketers find the right role at Microsoft. I'm looking for new ways to reach out to the tech marketing population, evaluate who are the best and get them here. If you have recommendations on where I should be looking for the "best of the best" in marketing, let me know!
Resources: Heather's Blog Microsoft Career Portal Linkedin ERE
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