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This week Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, has been visiting college campuses to talk with students about how the new capabilities in computing will help tackle some of the planet’s toughest challenges.
At Cornell, Harvard, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Washington, Craig is showing the leading-edge work taking place at Microsoft and demonstrating work from the Computational Science Group out of Microsoft Research Cambridge (U.K.). He's also discussing the kinds of computers students will soon be using.
Recently I decided to explore new opportunities at Microsoft that are aligned to my career aspirations. This meant that I needed to update my resume (which hasn’t been touched since 2005) with my work experience that I have gained over the last 4 years. Hmmm… what exactly did I do over the last 4 years?
I must have sat there for 30 minutes with a blank resume while I tried to remember what I accomplished. Besides a general idea of the responsibilities I had, I couldn’t remember the exact metrics I achieved, awards I won or extra projects I took on. That’s when it hit me that I shouldn’t have waited until I was looking for a new job to update my resume!
Our friends over on the Channel 9 team (as well as all of us here at Microsoft) hope you have a very fun and safe Halloween weekend!
