History of Microsoft

With yearly revenues of above $32 billion, Microsoft Corporation is more than the leading software company in the world, it is a cultural phenomenon. The company’s core business is based on developing, manufacturing, and licensing software products, including operating systems, server applications, business and consumer applications, and software development tools, as well as Internet software, technologies, and services. Led by Bill Gates, the world’s wealthiest individual and most famed businessman, Microsoft has succeeded in placing at least one of its products on virtually every personal computer in the world, setting industry standards and defining markets in the process.

Job Description/Average Wage

Administrative Assistant: An administrative assistant is involved in a extensive array of tasks and projects including event planning, customer liaison, and website updating. This position provides a prospect to take action, use strong problem-solving skills to bring about change, and make a positive impact. Annual salary for this position is $47,000.

Product Manager: As the company’s Product Manager you will be accountable for the product planning and implementation throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working directly with engineering, sales, marketing and support to guarantee revenue and customer fulfillment goals are met. The Product Manager’s job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals. The average annual salary for a Product Manager is around $76,000-$130,000.

Technical Writer: In this position, you will spend about 50% of your time writing Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, online Help, and other forms of content in English. You’ll work directly with other writers, an editor, program managers, engineers, and testers. You would also assist schedule and supervise the writing deliverables, review the content deliverable quality, and run pilots and projects to discover new content opportunities in order to develop content usability and discoverability. It’s a fantastic opportunity to exercise your project management skills and cross-group communication skills, while contributing to achievement of Microsoft online support content. Technical Writer’s annual average salary is around $78,000 to $105,000.

Senior Program Manager: As a Senior Program Manager below are some of your daily duties:

• Participating in all programs that compact with career development planning and performance evaluation.
• Mentoring managers throughout formal channels.
• Assessing training needs and selecting training tools for team members.
• Recognizing areas for internal development and developing plans for implementing them.
• Complying and enforcing standard company policies and procedures.
• Lending proficiency to internal teams and task forces.
• Reviewing the status reports of team members across projects and addressing issues as being suitable.

This position pays an average wage of around $85,000-$145,000 annually.

Benefits

• Investment benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Group legal plan
• Employee assistance program
• Prime program
• Tuition assistance program
• Extensive health care benefits

How to apply

If you want to apply for the job, or for the other available jobs they offer, you may visit them at their website and read further instructions on how you will apply for the position you desired.

http://careers.microsoft.com/gclp.aspx