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Technical Consultant interns win Global award!
A group of four technical consultant interns who sit within the Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) department at Microsoft UK have recently been recognised for their innovative and inspirational work on the Guide Dogs project. It’s the tale of four MCS interns – Lee, Yalini, Sophie and Joseph – who, despite beginning thrown in the deep [...]
LEO D’ARCY: Techdays.Online
About a month ago I was contacted by the IT Pro team at Microsoft UK for an event they run called Techdays.Online. These guys are responsible for showing IT professionals the new features in Microsoft’s latest products. Normally they travel the country giving demos to rooms of people, however late last year they tried doing [...]
ROB CLARKE – Premier Field Engineer
My first experience working for Microsoft began in 2005 as a technical intern, forming my 12 month year in industry for my degree; studying Internet Technology. During this time I worked as a Systems Engineer for MSN, helping administer the health and maintenance of the hundreds of servers that host the MSN websites across EMEA. [...]
STUART MCCARTHY, MCS Consultant, MACH Alumni & Previous Intern – Career Journey
Career summary From A-levels I started my career as an IT Technician for a local university. After 2 years I was excelling at my role but it became clear that there was a real lack of career development, therefore, I decided I wanted to go to University. I studied Compute Science at Bath, initially a [...]
NICK HEDDERMAN, Windows Phone Product Marketing
I joined Microsoft in 2005 as an intern, working in the MSN team. After a matter of weeks, I knew Microsoft was the right place for my career. I was given numerous opportunities to prove myself, managing projects that grew in terms of size and importance over the twelve month placement. It was an easy [...]
NICK HEDDERMAN, Success Story
What was your role as an intern? What really compelled me to apply for the internship scheme was when Microsoft visited Aston on campus tour .Their presentation got me really interested in the company as it has great values, a good working environment and great opportunities. I joined Microsoft as an intern in 2004 for [...]
RICHARD BODDINGTON, Intern to MACH Transition
What was your role as an intern? Partner Programme Specialist. I managed 300 Microsoft Partners, helping them becoming skilled in Microsoft technologies and acting as a ‘go to’ resource within Microsoft for them. What is your role as a MACH? I joined on Sales stream of the MACH scheme, I am a Territory Business Manager [...]
RACHNA BOOTH, 5 years on…
Rachna Booth was a graduate 3 years ago and has done some amazing things during her 5 years here including interviewing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the famous MGX conference in front of 15 000 employees, see below for our guest blog Q and A: •Thinking about your time as a graduate, what do you think [...]
CHARLIE ANDREWS, Project Coordinator
Hi Everyone, I have spent the last 14 months working as a project coordinator in MCS, Services. My current project involves coordinating a team of 18 people who review Showcase Window Phone 7 applications for mobile phone devices. Over the past 6 months, we have launched over 250 apps into Marketplace, whilst also coordinating the [...]
SUCCESS STORY, Nick Scott, TAM
Hi everyone! Last week I (Holly) kicked off one of our great new ideas for the blog – success stories. These are where we will find employees from around the business who have been through the MACH (Microsoft Academy of College Hires) scheme and/or Microsoft’s internship year and interview them. Microsoft recruits very few graduates [...]