Creating social impact at Microsoft
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The benefits of hiring an apprentice
I work in the Customer Success Unit, where we support our customers to help them better harness and deliver a successful digital transformation. We also want to futureproof our co-workers and employees. With this in mind, we built our early in career programme with apprentices. I started my career as an apprentice so I know...
Building your talent pipeline with the Microsoft Apprenticeship Programme
Microsoft Apprenticeships are a great way for the UK to fill the digital skills gap and for businesses to build their talent pipeline and invest in their workforce of the future....
How to deliver a successful apprenticeship programme – learnings from our own journey
At Microsoft, our apprenticeship programme sits beautifully alongside our core vision of empowering every person on the planet to achieve more. Apprenticeships can empower people to grow and develop new skills. This gives them opportunity to start career paths that perhaps wouldn’t have been open to them before....
Inspiring young girls to pursue STEM careers
To close the digital skills gap, the tech sector needs to improve its talent diversity, inspiring more young girls to pursue STEM careers....
New year, New you: Make the most of study breaks with Xbox
As we’re now well into the new year, let’s take a look at how you can take a much needed study break for the upcoming exam period, and believe it or not, how a game of FIFA may actually help improve your performance....
New year, new you: How OneDrive keeps your files in order for the coming year
One of my biggest fears as university student is losing all of the work that I’ve completed over the last few years. Since working at Microsoft, I’ve really been able to see the value in keeping all of my files in order using OneDrive. It’s one of the products that I use on a daily...
Four skills you need to succeed in 2019
How many skills are there in the professional world? About 50,000, according to LinkedIn.[1] And as technology grows, so will that number. Maintaining and developing skill sets are important for individuals and businesses alike. Skilled employees are 8.4 percent more productive and 70 percent of employees indicated that job-related training and development opportunities influenced their...
New year, new you: Powering through every university hour with a modern device
The device that you choose to support you through your student life plays a pivotal role in your productivity levels and can really impact your success throughout university. When choosing a device, you need to consider what your course requirements are and how you are likely to use it....
New year, new you: Transform your student group projects with Microsoft Teams
Tighe is a computer science student in his third year at Loughborough University. He’s currently doing a year-long internship at Microsoft as a Partner Technology Strategist, focusing on AI. Through his role at Microsoft, Tighe provides guidance and best practices to enable our partners to get the most out of technology, helping them transform their...