Michele Ballinger articles

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Michele Ballinger
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Business Applications

Essential tools to create a better workplace – Microsoft at SHRM 2019 

This week, Microsoft will be at the SHRM 2019 Annual Conference and Exposition to share best practices on how to unlock talent success, connect to collaborate, and drive culture change. The event theme, creating better workplaces, aligns with our focus on creating a modern workplace where people thrive. In recent years, we’ve seen an exponential

3 ways to incorporate culture in your talent acquisition strategy 

 In my previous blog, I highlighted the importance of incorporating culture into your recruiting and hiring processes.  I wanted to drill in a bit deeper to provide a step-by-step actionable approach to culture-centric talent acquisition. Step 1: Make a list of the essential elements of your company culture. This can include your vision, values, preferred
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Attending HR Tech? Connect with Microsoft! 

This week, Microsoft will be at the world’s leading conference and expo for HR and IT professionals—HR Technology Conference—to share best practices to adopt technology to accelerate culture change.  Our event theme—Big Data. Small Data. All Data.—will  showcase Microsoft’s complete platform that connects and operationalizes HR data. If you’re headed to Las Vegas for the