Tips & Tricks

Resume Tips
A well-prepared resume may not lead directly to a job offer, but it will improve your chances of being considered for a position and perhaps help you land an interview. Here are a few suggestions for submitting a resume to Microsoft.

Layout Tips

• Include your name, office and home phone number, and Microsoft e-mail alias at the top of your resume.

• Provide sufficient white space so that so that managers and recruiters can identify your key skills, projects and accomplishments without having to read the entire resume. > Don't spend too much time on graphics or cool fonts. > Don't indulge in long, detailed paragraphs. Use easy-to-read one line statements instead.
  

• Use present tense for your current position and past tense for previous positions. > Use most of the space to focus on work you've done in the past 5-7 years. Unless you are interested in jobs that map to skills used prior to that time, limit descriptions of older work to just 1 or 2 key accomplishments. > If you include an objective, make it straightforward, concise, and related to the job you are seeking.
  

• If you include a professional summary, make it concise with no more than four to six statements, which are your top credentials. > List your educational background. This should be near the bottom - for an experienced candidate. > Provide a chronological view of your background, including dates and positions held.

Content Tips

• Make certain your resume is up-to-date and clearly describes your strengths, past jobs, and expertise> To show that you are more qualified than the competition for the positions you are seeking, present specific accomplishments and achievements: percentages increased, accounts expanded, awards won, etc.> Provide a description of the specific positions that interest you, and your skills and qualifications, so we can best match your abilities and interests with appropriate positions in our company.
  

• Be factual and don't exaggerate on dates or titles. A background check that discovers inaccurate information could immediately disqualify you from consideration.> Use statements to describe your key skills, projects, and accomplishments. Ideally, keep each statement to one line. Focus on your accomplishments as well as responsibilities.
  

Articulate scope and impact of responsibilities and accomplishments (Team, Group, Division, cross organization, customer, etc.).

Recruiting Proces

First
To get things started, send your CV by clicking here

The Review
Your CV will be reviewed and assigned to the job that best suits your skills and experience. If your current skills match our immediate job openings, you will likely be invited for a phone screen conversation. If your current skills aren't immediately applicable, we will ask you to stay in touch with us, as new jobs open all the time.

The Phone Screen
You will be contacted by a Scheduling Coordinator regarding a phone screen with one of our MS employees. This will be approximately 30 minutes long and will cover a little bit about you and a little about us. If there's a good opportunity to discuss more, we will invite you in for l a Technical Interview If not, , we will encourage you to stay in touch with us for future job openings.

The Technical Screening, HR Interview & Wiring Manager
If you are invited for a Technical Interview it may also include an HR Interview, a Hiring Manager Introduction, and, if all goes well, a visit to meet the AA We will try to cover as much technical depth as possible while allowing you to ask us questions, such as what it's like to work at Microsoft.

The HR and Hiring Manager Interview will focus on your other skills and competencies, as well as allow you to discuss the benefits along with career development opportunities, and how your manager can help you realize your career development goals through our unique career modeling for employees. The entire interview process may take from 2 days to 2 weeks depending on the candidate and his/her scheduling needs.

Good luck!

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Join a unique community of smart and passionate people who truly enjoy tackling technology's biggest challenges and driving the innovations that impact how the world lives, works and plays.

At Microsoft Israel R&D center:

• You can experience unmatched career opportunities by choosing from an array of interesting and exciting experiences and grow your tech and business skills with an industry leader.
  
• You can create technology that truly Impacts the world by defining innovation to help solve the world's biggest technology challenges; Where your ideas and solutions can change the world.
  
  

Join us and witness amazing things happen.

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