Author: Karen K. Ngo
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Making the Move: Stay-At-Home-Mom to Exec Assistant to Business Program Manager
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The Making the Move series strives to inspire those who come from unique backgrounds and want to break into the world of tech. Here’s a secret… You don’t need to be a computer science major! Today, I am sharing the career journey of Esther Chen, Business Program Manager at Microsoft where she…
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Top 10 University Mistakes
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A couple of weeks ago while I was on vacation, I was asked to present to Microsoft Canada’s first cohort of 50 Explore interns! I can’t believe that it’s already been 2 years since I’ve graduated, but it was nice to revisit my University Mistakes series and find that it…
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2 Month Life Update: I Finally Learned How to Use the Dishwasher
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Growing up, my parents took care of everything in the household, so my brother and I rarely had to cook or clean. We were really lucky as kids… but it has also made this adulting gig quite challenging! For one thing, I don’t even know how to use a dishwasher.…
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Starting a New Chapter Together
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Today is my partner’s first day as a Software Engineer at Microsoft 🎉 He is starting on the Azure IoT Central team and I am immensely proud of him! People have always told me that I made big bets and bold choices. Yet, my partner was the one who took…
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5 Free Resume Building Tools
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Looking to revamp your resume and hate those ugly standard templates? Today, I will share 5 free resume tools that you should check out. It may seem counterintuitive to share this with you all since these tools could be considered as indirect competition to Resume Rescue. However, the goal with…
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Listen to my podcast episode!
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Hello, I am excited to share some cool news… I have been featured on a podcast! When it first came out, I was already a fan of the UPWARDS podcast sponsored by the Microsoft Aspire Experience. Imagine my delightful surprise when Jake messaged me on Microsoft Teams asking if I…
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Making the Move: Teaching to Tech
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For today’s Making the Move series, I am excited to share Yanira Sesniak‘s transition from the academic world into tech! Yanira is currently a Sr. Business Program Manager in the Data & AI space at Microsoft. Yanira’s Background in Education Yanira always loved school and finished her Bachelors program early, so…
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How this Intern Leveraged Power Apps to Optimize the Microsoft Onboarding Experience
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Today, I am excited to share the Microsoft internship journey of Sarah Ferrolino, a 5th year computer science student from Ryerson University. For those who are familiar with my work, you’ll find that I love sharing inspiration from people who are well experienced and have a plethora of accomplishments under…
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How I Made $1K+ of Side Hustle Income This Year
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Side Note: Yes, I am wearing Donut pants in this photo… For 2021, I gave myself the stretch goal of making $1K of side hustle income. To be totally honest, I had no idea how I would achieve this, and didn’t really expect to… But as I took a look…
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The Best Interview Tips for Navigating the Great Reshuffle
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The global pandemic has led to an insane amount of change in the past couple years; the Great Reshuffle being one of them. As we all reconsider our career paths and ambitions going into the new year, I am excited to share some incredible tips from Natalia Przech, Product Marketing…