Microsoft Intern Employment within the Partner Community
I am really excited about this which we have been working on for a while - here is where we help the partner community with talent through our awesome set of interns. Our intern program allows us to hire top-level undergrads, and integrate them into our marketing and sales teams for 12 months. The worst part is that we have say goodbye to them after 12 months and we decided to build a simple program to allow partners to get visibility of high calibre potential employees that come with a whole bunch of Microsoft-specific experience and contacts. Here is the official email going out soon:
"How you can benefit from the Microsoft Intern Program
The Microsoft Intern Program is a 12 month program that trains high calibre undergraduates within Microsoft. Interns are hired on a full-time basis, gaining invaluable exposure to the corporate world on Microsoft functions, allowing the opportunity to work with genuine responsibility on a variety of projects. All interns go through a rigorous selection in their recruitment process, and are selected them on the basis of their skill, values and passion. They provide exceptional talent, commitment and are highly valued within Microsoft.
After these 12 months, there is no guarantee of permanent employment - although interns can apply for open roles. At one time, there are approximately twenty interns on-board (nationally) with roles ranging from marketing, finance, technical and operations.
We believe that our interns can be of great value to our partner community and would like to give you the possibility of employing a Microsoft intern, after their 12 month tenure with Microsoft expires. We would like to offer your company an informal arrangement where partners can provide their details to our HR contact at Microsoft; who will post those details on an internal Microsoft site. Interns will have the opportunity to make initial contact with the partner directly.
The below statement is from a current intern. This will assist you to gain some insight on the experience that an internship at Microsoft provides.
“I started my internship in April 2006 and since then I’ve been involved in all things Vista: from attending training sessions, giving demos to colleagues, partners and customers, proctoring at the hands-on-labs during TechEd, being the LOVE guru in the branch), and building proof of concepts for customer projects. Currently, I am working with a technical account manager to put together a business desktop deployment solution to convince one of our customer and partner to deploy Vista in their environment. Besides being heavily involved in Vista, I am also given the opportunity to work with consultants at client sites, and upgrade my skills through Microsoft certifications.”
Disclaimer: Whilst Microsoft is happy to post your details on our internal site, Microsoft is not able to provide a reference for nor guarantee the suitability of an intern for your business. Any hiring decision is made by you after making your own inquiries and forming your own view of the suitability of an intern and obtaining independent advice as necessary.
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For more information and to register your interest please contact me through this blog , or your partner account manager if you have one.
Comments
Anonymous
June 14, 2007
Some of you may not know, but at Microsoft we have an intern program, where we hire top-level graduatesAnonymous
April 11, 2008
"Microsoft has launched a Partner Linked Program to accompany its Corporate Internship Program in a move