<p>So I went to the career fair at my school and talked to this Microsoft recruiter and handed her my resume. </p>
<p>I would really like to get an internship at Microsoft this summer but it's been a week since I handed her my resume and I still haven't heard anything back. It's possible that I didn't impress her for some reason, or she had too much resumes to read and forgot about me. But anyway, for now just assume I'm the "ideal" guy that Microsoft would want.</p>
<p>I want to try to submit my resume to Microsoft by other means. Microsoft have many different recruiters for different schools. I'm thinking about emailing my resume to recruiters that doesn't "deal" with my school. Can I give it a try?</p>
<p>The reason is because I don't want one single person to judge me and decide whether I should get an interview or not. That is depending TOO much on chance.</p>
<p>Come on, I used to be an USAMO qualifier back in high school and I can't even get a phone prescreening interview at a company that values intelligent people? Geez. If I was Bill Gates I would screw all the "recruiters" and simply have every candidates take an online intelligence test in math and programming. The highest scorers automatically gets an interview.</p>
<p>Then again, it's only been a week, maybe I should wait awhile longer?</p>
<p>Its not chance. Just talk to the recruiter. It seems like you want this internship more than anything in the world. You passion will show right through you and the recruiter would definitely be impressed. The only other thing that has to correlate is your stats, if it meets what microsoft expects from interns.</p>
<p>the thing is they recruit interns early (starts in Oct). only a very limited number of intern positions left according to a recruiter last week.</p>
<p>hey , as far as what you should do is a. Apply to your university career website (if u guys have one)
b. Apply online through Microsoft
c. Email recruiter</p>
<p>You should be fine emailing a recruiter who is not assigned to your school , if you seem like a decent candidate theyll forward your resume around.
Its rare that people get a callback from a career fair simply because its hard to stand out when you meet like 500 people. But your best shot is your own universities career site , thats where the selection ususally takes place.</p>
<p>For the above poster , they have a LOT of jobs and Microsoft interviews pretty much throughout the year , so dont think they are out of jobs.</p>
<p>Its harder to get an internship around this time as companies tend to fill up during an earlier time. Its def. still possible to get them now, just a bit more difficult.</p>