By Elizabeth Hoogs Commonly I get emails from students entering their pc engineering or laptop or computer science departments asking for suggestions. What do we look for in a student? Which classes should they take to set themselves up to be a successful applicant for an internship or full time opportunities out of school? The easy answer: Take the hardest classes and lots of project classes, and do well in them. When we interview pupils on campus,
Microsoft Office 2010 Standard, we know that your experience lies primarily in the classes you have taken and in the projects you’ve worked on. These are the things we will focus on and, in doing so,
Windows 7 Starter Key, try to determine if how you performed and what you learned in those experiences will translate into a high performing member of Microsoft. Having project classes where you worked in teams is very important because everyone at Microsoft relies on everyone else to do their part. No man is an Island here; no software stands alone, and project classes will give you the experience of working in a team and will allow you to talk about these experiences when in interviews. Taking hard classes sounds too simple, and it kind of is. We want to see that you are self-driven, a hard worker, and really passionate about software,
Office 2010 Professional Plus, engineering, and problem solving. Students who are naturally driven do take the harder classes - not because they are hard,
Office Professional Plus, but because they are excited about the content the classes teach and because they are driven and know they will do everything they can to succeed in the class. Once you get to the upper level classes, you are able to customize your coursework to your interests and luckily, we have products and groups in most, if not all, of those areas. The not-so-easy answer: It’s up to you. We talk a lot at Microsoft about the whole package. We don’t want to hire an amazing coder who doesn’t work hard; likewise, our successful candidates do have strong technical skills. A successful candidate has a healthy blend of technical know-how and potential,
Office Professional Plus 2010, mixed with strong core competencies. I feel like these candidates self-select to some degree. As passion feeds your drive, your drive feeds how hard you work, and this feeds your technical knowledge, and this feeds your passion ... We can’t give you suggestions regarding your passion, it just is, but I can tell you that the successful students love software and technology so much, that they are naturally driven to success. The rest just falls in place. Liz
