Author: Karen K. Ngo
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How My Career Walking Deck Helped Me Land a Job Abroad as a Microsoft Solutions Engineer
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Heather Grandy succeeded in moving abroad to Microsoft UK as a Data Platforms Solution Engineer 🎉 To help and inspire fellow job seekers to build a Career Walking Deck, she has shared her personal experience (in her own words, with minor edits for brevity) below. Defining a career vision It…
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How My Career Walking Deck Helped Me Land a Job at Microsoft After Getting Laid Off
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Harrison Au recently landed a sales role at Microsoft 🎉 To help and inspire fellow job seekers to build a Career Walking Deck, he has shared his personal experience (in his own words, with minor edits for brevity) below. It was challenging to network and self advocate It was also…
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Microsoft LEAP Webinar: Gift of Feedback
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Since 2023, I’ve been running career development workshops for participants of the Microsoft LEAP, a 16-week program for people who want to transition into a technical career path. From retired NFL players to new-to-Microsoft folks, I’ve enjoyed presenting on this topic of “The Gift of Feedback,” which I believe is…
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How My Career Walking Deck Helped Me Land a Job Offer Within 1 Hour
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Regina Barnes landed a job offer within 1 hour of her interview 🎉 To help and inspire fellow job seekers to build a career walking deck, she has shared her personal experience (in her own words, with minor edits for brevity) below: I first learned about the career walking deck…
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Microsoft Ignite 2025 Highlights
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This was the first year that I got to attend Microsoft Ignite and it was a blast 💥 As an employee creator, I had the unique opportunity to peak behind-the-scenes, shoot a bunch of content, and lead the VIP Creator Tours for our external creators! Find all my social posts…
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10 things to do after getting a job rejection
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You’d be surprised how many stories I hear about people getting callbacks after a rejection. Sometimes the chosen candidate declines the offer, a new role opens up on a sister team, or someone goes on unexpected leave. Save my non-AI-generated scripts to build positive rapport & keep the door open…
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From Google to Meta with a Career Walking Deck
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Zuri recently landed a job at Meta 🎉 While he did not use his career walking deck in the interviews, he shared it in his follow up emails to the recruiter, hiring manager, and interviewers. His biggest challenge as a job seeker was transitioning disciplines from Social Media Marketing to…
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Protected: 8 gratitude notes to nurture your network
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How to protect yourself while looking for your next job
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Recently, someone reached out to let me know they’d experienced an issue on their Windows device after clicking a pop-up link that appeared to come from my website. As someone who takes cybersecurity very seriously, I investigated this by running security scans on Norton, NordVPN, and Sucuri which confirmed that…
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Landing a Job in 1 Month with a Career Walking Deck
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Rebecca Lee Doran started her job search in September and landed a job offer in October 🎉 To help and inspire fellow job seekers to build a career walking deck, she has shared her personal experience (in her own words, with minor edits for brevity) below: When I interviewed with…