Author: Karen K. Ngo
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25 Tips on How to Get a Job at Microsoft
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Updated August 2025 Did you know that Microsoft gets 1M+ job applications every month? Getting a job at Microsoft seems to be a popular topic in my conversations with dozens of students, friends, and peers. Today, I am sharing how I would personally approach job hunting if I wanted to…
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Top 50 Takeaways from IABC World Conference 2022
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Back in June 2022, I attended the IABC World Conference in New York 🗽 (IABC stands for International Association of Business Communicators). I was the only attendee from Microsoft and enjoyed meeting people outside of the tech bubble and learning more about storytelling, social media, and the multi-faceted communications discipline. For those…
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My Traumatizing Experience Buying Tickets via StubHub and UPS
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T-2 months 🤔 Earlier this year, I decided that I was going to attend the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC 2022) in Las Vegas. Since I saw that the ticket prices were really high on the official website (mid $400s), I decided to check resale sites out of curiosity. I stumbled…
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6 Month Life Update: I went on summer vacation and felt guilty for unplugging
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After a crazy month of chaos, conferences, and catching COVID-19, I went on a 2 week vacation and visited my family and friends back home in the first 2 weeks of July 🇨🇦 Emceeing at a wedding 🎤 I emceed at my friend’s wedding for the first time and thoroughly…
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Please Don’t Reply All To That Email 🥲
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Here’s another work tip to help yourself and others along the lines of the ✨ No Hello rule ✨ I am not sure if it’s because I am still catching up since returning from summer vacay, but I am finding it harder and harder to maintain Inbox Zero these days…
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5 Ways That You Can Join Microsoft as a Student or New Grad
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It seems like there’s a bit of confusion from all the students messaging me on LinkedIn these days. In this blog post, I will clarify some of the differences between various Microsoft programs aimed at students and new grads. All current job postings can be found on the Microsoft Career…
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How to Properly Ask for a Job Referral
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Over the years, people have asked me to refer them to jobs and hiring managers have also asked me to refer people because they trusted my judgement and eye for great talent. Hence, I take job referrals quite seriously and I’ve also spoken to peers and managers about how they…
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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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5 Month Life Update: I went to 2 conferences & caught COVID-19
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The month of June was very eventful and exciting! The first week, we had our planning meeting and it was great to see the team come together and enjoy the 2 days in-person. The second week, we had an internal conference with all of the Communications Managers across Microsoft. This…