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A body in motion
It’s early 2020, before the pandemic will hit the U.S. Maliyam heads through Red Square, passing Suzzallo Library. The building’s imposing Gothic architecture made an impression when he first visited campus. “I felt like the place had a history, like something was waiting for me,” he recalls.
How to land a job at Microsoft
The job description immediately catches your eye. It’s a good match for your skills and an even better match for your ambitions — the kind of opportunity that gets you excited about the possibilities of a career at Microsoft. But let’s face it: Landing the job you want is rarely an easy or relaxing process. Everything from spiffing up your résumé to wowing your interviewers can be challenging and completely nerve-racking.
Mastering the life swerve: one veteran-turned-tech-employee upended expectations
Nuclear physics isn’t usually the subject of childhood bedtime stories, unless you’re Claire Peterson. Forget dragons and daring rescues—Peterson’s father, a US Navy nuclear engineer, filled his daughter’s head with a different kind of magic: atoms, fission, and nuclear reactions. Completely engrossed, she imagined the mysteries of physics unfold as she dozed off. The hunger to understand complex ideas took hold when Peterson was young and never let up. From a young age, she was into tech.
When you want that job, tell them your story
Building your career is a journey filled with challenges, excitement, and forks in the road. And journeys are easier with maps. In this column, job experts answer your questions and deliver advice to help you take the next step. Question: I feel like my résumé doesn’t really show the real me. How can I help people looking at my resume get a better idea of who I am? Answer: Humans have relied on storytelling forever to share their experiences and journeys and to connect with each other.
Don't stop dreaming: you’ve got the job, now what?
Building your career is a journey filled with challenges, excitement, and forks in the road. And journeys are easier with maps. In this column, job experts answer your questions and deliver advice to help you take the next step. Question: I landed an exciting job. Now that I’m settling in, I don’t want to lose my momentum. What should I do to keep my career moving in a positive direction?
What being welcomed at work looks like
Building your career is a journey filled with challenges, excitement, and forks in the road. And journeys are easier with maps. In this column, job experts answer your questions and deliver advice to help you take the next step. Question: I’m part of the LGBTQ+ community, and it’s important to me to work at a place that accepts me for who I am. What’s the best way to figure that out, even before I apply? Answer: When you choose a job, you’re choosing more than the actual work you’ll do.
An engineer's dream job blooms into reality
An engineer’s dream job blooms into reality Two years after Philip Jarvis landed his dream job on the HoloLens team, he reflects on what it's like to work at Microsoft as an engineer who has Asperger's syndrome Recently, Philip Jarvis was in the Portland Art Museum checking out an exhibit on contemporary Native American fashion. As he finished in one gallery and prepared to move on to the next, he reflexively pressed his fingertips together and then opened up his hand like a flower blooming.
how a former spacecraft engineer said ‘yes’ and launched great things
Editor’s note: We sat down with Cindy Healey to talk about her time at NASA and the moment she took a scary risk. She tells our writer her story in her own words. While working on the Mars Pathfinder mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, I came to a fork in the road. It was a moment when I had to decide whether to move out of my comfort zone and take a risk.
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