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Download: Integrated Employment Branding Presentation www.mgs.jobs (March 20, 2006) (Cheesman spotted the site) Point your browser to www.mgs.jobs. It's an employment site for Microsoft Game Studios. It's a great (and funny) game to play. It's a high end use of the .jobs domain name. It's an escalation in the already intense talent wars in the game industry. It's faster than a speeding bullet. The site itself, executed in Macromedia's Flash (imagine that, Microsoft using someone else's tools) is a marvel of simplicity and entertainment. It's a marvel of Recruitment Advertising and includes a deliciously fun game involving chairs and officemates. From an advertising and PR perspective, Microsoft is really tearing things up. But, all is not well in Redmond. The Recruiting and attrition problem is becoming a national news story. CNN's coverage (from the past week) looks like this:
The Wash-Tech report is an eye-opener. It starts like this:
Wash-Tech, to be fair, is a communications front for the union trying to organize digital workers in the state. But, the facts are the facts. Much of Microsoft's recent visibility in Recruiting circles seems to be a political style spin offensive aimed at new Recruiting products (to compete with Salesforce.com) and the market of potential employees who are not aware of the company's circumstances. We're reminded of the old recruiting joke. On the second visit to hell, when the new recruit asks about the difference between his initial experience and the reality of hell, the devil says, "On that first visit, we were recruiting you." Don't forget to check out the blogs on bert.
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