Ryan Graves
Staffing Consultant

Microsoft Corporation

• http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangraves
• http://www.microsoft.com/careers

I currently recruit for the following Microsoft product groups:

Dyanmics Customer Relationship Management (CRM); Business Contact Manager (BCM); PerformancePoint Server (PPS); and Master Data Management (MDM)

I primarily recruit "core-tech" candidates such as Software Development Engineers (SDE), Software Development Engineers in Test *SDET) and Program Managers (PM). However, there are many other roles I recruit for as well.

If you are interested in a career at Microsoft, please reach out to me.

Ryan's blog: blog.myownrecruiter.com

• Headhunter dishes on why people leave Google

  Headhunter dishes on why people leave Google Tech news blog - CNET News.com:
  
  "Here are the other reasons for leaving:
  
  • The stock options aren't looking so spiffy these days. Google's share price has dropped significantly since 2007.
  
  • Google isn't a hot start-up anymore.
  
  • It's bogged down by corporate culture. 'The environment in which engineers were able to create their own products and services is decreasing since it has to go through a full review process...

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• Microsoft Decides Not To Bid Against Itself; No To Price Rise on Yahoo

  Microsoft Decides Not To Bid Against Itself; No To Price Rise on Yahoo: Report paidContent.org:
  
  "Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), not in any particular mood to bid against the only competition it has --itself-- has no plans to raise its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), reports WSJ, citing sources. The company is instead biding its time, and so far has had only one formal meeting with Yahoo on the offer.
  
  The strategists on MSFT’s side argue...

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• Office Live Small Business - Web site maker on the cheap

  Web site maker on the cheap - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper:
  
  "You want a Web site for your small business, but you don't want to fool around with HTML coding, cascading style sheets, etc.
  
  It doesn't have to be a world-beating site, but it should cover all the bases, and at reasonable cost.
  
  Microsoft Corp., believe it or not, has a solution."

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