14 DAY TRIAL // Believe it or not, around each cubicle over at the Redmond campus there's a free hug, according to Roy the Job Opportunity Cowboy. This is because - again as Rob explains - Microsoft takes good care of its herd. And if you thought the Redmond company did not have a sense of humor, then you have been sadly mistaken. And in this context, Roy the Job Opportunity Cowboy is an example of Microsoft comedy at "work." And indeed, work is the key-word here, as Microsoft has just launched a new website designed to mix humor with a marketing effort in order to attract new workers.
"Yeah. so it's obviously marketing. But it 's real people telling about their actual experiences. In the staffing industry, recruiters lament the lack of any valuable career site content. Most corporate pages are transactional and boring. So although I had nothing to do with this web page going up (though you may see a video I produced up there in the future), I'm pretty proud of this," revealed Heather Hamilton, the manager of the Microsoft Staffing's central team responsible for marketing candidate generation, research and community.
The View My World website will permit visitors to take a virtual tour of Microsoft, to access a list of reasons why they should work for Microsoft, along with a Q&A and the blogs of company employees. But most importantly perhaps the website will point you in the right direction in case you want to apply for a job with Microsoft?of course, after you have been convinced by the scenic performances of Roy the Job Opportunity Cowboy. One thing that Microsoft underlined from the get go was that View My World was set up exclusively around actual company employees. With the sole exception of the cowboy. In this manner, you will be getting an accurate perspective of what it is like to work for Microsoft.
"We recently launched a new website to give a funky little peak behind the curtain at Microsoft. If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hate it. Trust me. Don't click on the singing cowboy videos. The site is primarily aimed at tech folk, but a lot of the content makes sense for the rest of us non-coder-types as well. These are real Microsoft employees (disclaimer: the cowboy is an actor. Just thought I would let you know in case you wondered if we was on staff). I have long been, well, kind of complaining, that we don't do a good job of showing our real employees to the world. Past marketing has been full of clips of two-dimensional, perfect-looking people. I like the people on the View My World site much more", Hamilton added.