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Monthly Archives: October 2011
DANIELLE MCPARLAND – Financial Analyst Intern
I work in the EMEA CSS Finance department which is the finance department within Customer Service and Support for Europe, Middle-east and Africa. Essentially, my team provides support to the range of customer service facilities available to our clients. In this way, we ensure that costs are managed efficiently and effectively to provide a highest [...]
JENNIFER STEVENS – Account Manager
The Glamorous Side! So, from my previous posts, I’ve already told you that I work as an Account Manager in the Advertising and Online department. My main task is to manage the relationship between Microsoft and media advertising agencies. Over the past two weeks I’ve taken on my own agencies, so now have ownership for [...]
MAX BENNETT – Brand Strategist
Hello Everyone, I’m just coming up to my third month here at Microsoft and already so much has happened. I work within the Microsoft Advertising side of the business up at Cardinal Place in London as a Brand Strategist for the Global Creative Solutions team. That was a little bit of an information overload there [...]
ATEFEH SEBDANI – Customer Immersion Experience
As mentioned in my presentation, there is a concept called Customer Immersion Experience at Microsoft. This is what I work with and it’s extremely fun and challenging. There’s only one person who drives this project in Sweden and that unique role was delegated to me when I stepped into the MACH program. In other words, [...]
JAMES HAMILTON, Junior Project Manager
Hi Guys, It’s been a while since I last blogged but I’m not short of things to talk about. I wrote last time about my short time at Microsoft and the experiences I had in my first month here. A few months later and I’ve been involved in a load of great things. Firstly the [...]
SCOTT DAUGHTERS, Project Manager
Now that I am in the fourth month of my placement I have begun to feel that I can add real value to the team. We have recently had a few new starters and have been able to answer the questions which they have about the company and their role. Furthermore I have been given [...]
DAWN WOODHOUSE, Social Media
Hey! The weeks just seem to fly by here. I can’t believe that it’s already coming up to the two month marker! Think we need to write a *super* blog for that, don’t you Jenny? As there’s so much to take in with a corporation as big as this (and getting used to the acronyms), [...]
JOE STIFF, Project Manager
It’s a new Quarter at work! We just had a companywide meeting in the main hall where Gordon Frazer, the head of Microsoft UK reviews the past couple of months. We had a newsround where we learnt about the up and coming revamp of Microsoft Campus starting from the changing of all the food to [...]
HOLLY SMURTHWAITE, Business Analyst
Hello everyone, Microsoft sure does keep you busy and on your toes which is why this is only my second post on here but I hope I’m going to be one of the regulars! The blog has been keeping me busy too but it’s so good to read other interns’ experiences and find out first [...]
JESS JOHNSON, UK Service Delivery
Hello again Work has been getting increasingly busy, so busy I found it difficult to find the time needed to write this blog! However I am definitely not complaining! I love the amount of responsibility I have been given to perform certain tasks. It is really motivating for me to know that colleagues are dependent [...]