Microsoft
The Microsoft Academy for College Hires at Microsoft (MACH)
The MACH Program continues for 2 years and will give you the chance to accelerate your career at Microsoft. We believe that work is a place for exploration, creativity, innovation and professional growth. It’s about being inspired and motivated to achieve extraordinary things which leave a lasting impact. At Microsoft, you learn from the finest in the business. As a full time graduate employee, you experience an inspiring world class program. MACH is as a development program designed to recruit and hire top-performing graduates across a broad range of roles, and aims to cultivate your talent utilizing national and international training, mentoring, and providing community support.
With over 2,500 MACH employees in over 60 countries worldwide, you'll gain a network to a global community of peers, leadership exposure, world class trainings and the opportunity to take on challenging work that contributes meaningfully to helping people and businesses realize their full potential.
MACH Technical Evangelist
Our aspiration is to help our customers deliver great experiences on our devices and powered by our cloud. Our customers are those that build apps and services for their customers. A decade ago, this meant professional developers. Today our customers span start-ups, B2C companies, hobbyists and moon-lighters, students, designers, consumer, and commercial software companies to name but a few. Our customers define their success in many different ways but as a group, they innovate, they disrupt and they define the future of industries and markets. Our mission is to help them succeed on top of the platforms we build.
Technical Evangelists are responsible for talking to specialists about Microsoft’s products, technology and platform story, and inspiring them to take action. You’ll be able to quickly and selectively go deep on technology when required, learning continuously to keep your skills one step ahead, and build credibility with the developer audience. You will be able to demonstrate an ability to influence their perceptions about Microsoft’s offerings.
As a Technical Evangelist you will be working closely with many different roles across the entire Microsoft NL organization.
Un-like other programs, you will be immediately placed in a challenging role. Learning on the job is key in our program. Besides your daily responsibilities you will work on your personal development. You will be provided with the infrastructure and resources to define and grow your career including access to world-class learning solutions both online and live in classrooms. Your manager and mentor will help you with your personal development plan and finding out your talents.
Our aim at Microsoft is to make people collaborate like never before. At Microsoft Netherlands we believe that adopting a flexible working policy and trusting our employees to do their best in the environment they choose, can be rewarded with more satisfied staff, better results and increased productivity across the business.
We take your career seriously at Microsoft and will ensure that we provide regular reviews throughout the year to provide you with continuous feedback and support to inspire and develop you and to ensure your personal satisfaction and growth.
• Passion for technology
• Broad technical knowledge and hands-on programming experience
• Strong communicator and collaborator
• Interested and capable to engage both with small and large technical audience through public presentations/speaking
• Proactive entrepreneurial attitude and positive mindset
• Quickly master new technology and understand complex issues
• HBO or University Degree, graduated in the past 18 months
• Technical background
The vacancy will be open until the 7th of September 2014.
- September; CV screen and telephone screen
- October; interview and online cognitive test
- First two weeks of November; two assessment days (candidate will participate one day)
At the middle of November we will decide which candidates will start as MACH trainees at Microsoft, the 1st of January 2015.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. We would like to welcome you in an international working environment that is characterized by flexibility, an informal atmosphere, and a fast pace. Microsoft ensures your work-life-balance, offers attractive salary packages and bonus programs and a modern office, which combines innovative technics with design.
Join Microsoft today, and help us shape the business of tomorrow!