Category: Work Life
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10 PowerPoint Tips & Tricks That Will Save You Hours
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Our good pal, PowerPoint, has been a part of countless school projects and work assignments over the years. Anyone can put together a PowerPoint presentation, but can you create an engaging slide deck that will save you time and WOW! the socks off your audience? Luckily for you, I met…
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Careers in the Consumer Business
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Perspectives from Ami Silverman, CVP Worldwide Consumer Channel Sales & Marketing at Microsoft For this interview style blog post, I had the pleasure of meeting with Ami Silverman to dive into her career path and experiences in the consumer business. Today’s goal is to share Ami’s perspectives and advice for tackling a…
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The 6 Mentorship Best Practices You Need to Know
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Perspectives from Tammi Warfield, VP of Customer Success at Microsoft Mentorship is critical to our careers, but what does an effective mentorship look like? At a Microsoft Canada Women Who Lead event, Tammi Warfield shared that she was an avid believer in the power of mentorship. Her passion about this…
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Digital Branding & Virtual Networking
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Over the past couple months, I was invited to run a Digital Branding & Virtual Networking Webinar for a couple of different groups at Microsoft! In March, it was with our Co-op Community in Canada, and in April, it was with our XBOX/Gaming Early-In-Career Community in the US! Sharing the…
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Meaningful Mentorships
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On Feb 12, 2021, I was invited to kick off the first of 3 Mentorship Workshops that the Microsoft Canada Intern Community was hosting! In this webinar, I shared my personal mentorship experiences and how they shaped my development as an early-in-career professional. Thanks so much to Ayesha Mir for…
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What Career Impact Means at Microsoft
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What does making an impact in your career really mean at a company like Microsoft? I had the pleasure of meeting with Priya Priyadarshini, General Manager of Career & Development at Microsoft, to chat about her journey from an intern to GM and what success looks like in a “VUCA”…
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5 Ways to Start a Conversation Without Asking “How Are You?”
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We are all guilty of asking “how are you?” at the beginning of every conversation and then responding “good, how about you?” and getting another “good, thanks” in return. Unsurprisingly, this greeting doesn’t really lead us anywhere meaningful; especially in a time when building a personal connection is harder to…
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What I Learned in 2020: Stay Positive, Test Negative
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Overwhelmingly, 2020 was one of those years where it was really easy to ruminate over every awful circumstance that came my way. However this blog post is focused on gratitude, because I haven’t been practicing it enough.
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Aspiring Through Ambiguity
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Tomorrow always begins with the chance to create new opportunities. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft I think we can all agree that 2020 has been a year of change agility and the shattering of consistency. Our daily routines have been uprooted, our professional careers have melted into our personal lives,…
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The Perfect Career Profile
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On November 24, 2020 and again on March 24, 2021, I had an opportunity to present to my first truly international audience in Malaysia ?? with 430+ people who attended live or registered to watch the recording! In this webinar collaboration between ResumeWriter.MY and JobStreet Malaysia, we walked through what the ideal career…