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By Eric Stutzman Even as an industry recruiter we do take the "show on the road" from time to time; I personally have been involved with 3 different events and across the Microsoft Business Division recruiting team I know there have been several more. We visit different locations like Ottawa, Canada,Office 2010 Standard Key, Austin, Texas, and the Silicon Valley and I know one of the groups in MBD is looking at New England and the South East for upcoming events. There are different variations of an event, but the type I am talking about are typically an "invitation only" event to interview with Microsoft in your local area. It can be quite fun and always challenging to get these events set up and the interview schedule filled. As you have come to know through JobsBlog and other avenues, Microsoft has a high standard and a thorough screening process for interviews and the event setting is no different. I typically identify candidates that have the skill set that I am looking for and send out an escreen for them to complete which I follow up with a 30 minute phone conversation to review the screen and ask follow up technical questions. After this the candidates are scheduled with a hiring manager for another follow up call and if they make it through that, are invited to the event and take one of the interview spots. The Unified Communications Group is the latest group within Microsoft Business Division to host such an event. Microsoft's vision for unified communications enables a people-centric solution of rich,Office Standard 2010, intuitive, and seamless communications across e-mail, IM, voice, data,Windows 7 Pro Key, video,Office 2007 Ultimate Key, and conferencing. Microsoft offers companies a complete software platform that unifies all communications with their business applications and processes, streamlining how people reach each other and communicate. The product groups include; Exchange Server,Purchase Office 2007, Live Meeting, Live Communication Server and Communicator. We are hosting an invitation only interview event at our Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, CA in November and while the slots are filling up there are still a few available. This event we are focusing on Program Managers for our UCG teams. If you feel that you have the skills that make you an excellent Program Manager candidate, currently live in the Silicon Valley and are open to relocating to Redmond, WA please contact me through jobsblog@microsoft.com and put SVC Event attn: Eric in the title! Who knows you may be the new hire Program Manager to take part in a JobCast!! ~Eric