Microsoft looks for Live wires hires

MS-Watch | at | by Mike

The group responsible for MSN and Windows Live has set up its career shop at whyyouwillworkhere.com. There is video featuring Microsoft employees and job information for six geographic regions.

The "browse the planet and find yourself" slogan is appealing.

It's an interesting recruitment approach that could backfire. There's a kind of news and blog biasor presumptionthat all the good talent is headed to Google and that in online search it's game over, Microsoft lost. Some people might look on the Microsoft Web site as a kind of desperate effort. I don't.