Social tools show job applicants what it’s really like to work at Microsoft.
By Steve Birge
Microsoft's social-oriented recruiting initiatives include the Facebook page Workin' it @ MSFT.
Anybody who’s looked for a new job knows that the job posting rarely gives a real sense of what it would be like to work at the new place. It’s particularly challenging if the position is new or rare.That’s exactly the problem staffing consultant Terry Jordan was having when he filled an escalation engineer position recently. Applications were few, and people he did hear from were confused about what an escalation engineer does. At a global staffing conference, he met colleagues who suggested adding a
podcast of an escalation engineer talking about what the job entails.
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