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Virtual
resume = Google Vanity Search! July 8, 2008

Posted by Mario Sundar in professionalnetworking, socialnetworking.
Tags: marcialboher, newyorktimes, onlinebrand, onlineresume, personalbrand, virtualresume
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Here’s another topic I’ve blogged about relentlessly in the past. In a post
titled “More
resumes going virtual“, Marci
Alboher from the New York Times talks about the next generation of virtual
resumes.









The origins
In April of 2007, Adam Darowski (a blogger
friend) wrote quite a popular post on how
your blog is your new resume (of course, virtual)! Joshua Porter of Bokardo
picked up on it adding his
thoughts to the meme and it then stirred quite the discussion.




My take
This then got around the echo chamber of Techmeme
before
I picked up on the thread but my conclusion was an extension of that idea. I
posited that your virtual resume is eventually going to become your default
Google vanity search. You
heard me right. How many of you have googled your name? Try it. What does it
show? In most cases either your blog and/or your social networking site.
However, let me add:

Now THAT is a virtual resume. I understand most folks are not social media
types/edge case users like me and hence won’t have the time to blog and create a
robust multimedia profile online. Plus, I know how time intensive, blogging can
be in addition to your day job.

So, the easiest way to get an online identity would be to create a LinkedIn
profile in a matter of a few minutes, which will then form the basis for your
virtual resume aka search identity. (Disclosure: I’m LinkedIn’s Community
Evangelist)

Microsoft’s Last Offer




Microsoft last offered Yahoo a combination stock, asset and business deal
that sources with knowledge of the situation summarize as follows:



• Microsoft to acquire 16% of Yahoo’s outstanding stock from existing
  stockholders for $8 billion, or $35/share.
  
• Microsoft to acquire all of Yahoo’s search and search marketing assets -
  servers, code, advertisers, third party publishers, intellectual property and
  employees (perhaps 3,000 of them) for $1 billion in cash plus a guaranteed CPC
  rate that is higher than what Yahoo can generate itself.
  
• Yahoo gets increased search revenue from the deal over what they generate
  now, and get to remove people and operational costs of search.
  
• Yahoo agrees not to touch the search or search marketing businesses directly
  ever again. All their searches are controlled by Microsoft.

My Experience at Interviews with Microsoft and Google

Few months ago I was interviewed for a software engineer in Google Zurich. If
I need to compare Microsoft and Google, I should tell it in short: Google sux!
Here are my reasons for this:

1) Google interview were not professional. It was like Olympiad in
Informatics. Google asked me only about algorithms and data structures, nothing
about software technologies and software engineering. It was obvious that
they do not care that I had 12 years software engineering experience. They just
ignored this. The only think Google wants to know about their candidates are
their algorithms and analytical thinking skills. Nothing about technology,
nothing about engineering.

2) Google employ everybody as junior developer, ignoring the existing
experience. It is nice to work in Google if it is your first job, really nice,
but if you have 12 years of experience with lots of languages, technologies and
platforms, at lots of senior positions, you should expect higher position in
Google, right?

3) Microsoft have really good interview process. People working in Microsoft
are relly very smart and skillful. Their process is far ahead of Google. Their
quality of development is far ahead of Google. Their management is ahead of
Google and their recruitment is ahead of Google.

Microsoft is Better Place to Work than Google

At my interviews I was asking my interviewers in both Microsoft and Google a
lot about the development process, engineering and technologies. I was asking
also my colleagues working in these companies. I found for myself that Microsoft
is better organized, managed and structured. Microsoft do software development
in more professional way than Google. Their engineers are better. Their
development process is better. Their products are better. Their technologies are
better. Their interviews are better. Google was like a kindergarden - young
and not experienced enough people, an office full of fun and entertainment,
interviews typical for junior people and lack of traditions in development of
high quality software products.

Google 2.0: Google
Universal Search

Google is undertaking
the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a "Universal
Search" system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and
book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages.

Use Google Sites to:




• Plan club meetings and activities
• Share info on a secure company intranet
• Collaborate on a team project
• Stay connected with family members










Share information with a few people, a whole organization, or the entire world.