How’d You Land that Great Job: Ariel Meadow Stallings, blogger at Microsoft
Ariel Meadow Stallings, a marketing manager on Microsoft’s staffing team, publishes the company’s “Microspotting” blog.
The job: “I never thought my silly Internet addictions would actually be useful,” says freelance writer and author Ariel Meadow Stallings, who’s kept a personal blog since 2000. But in the Microsoft job she’s had for the past year, being Facebook-savvy isn’t just useful — it’s essential. As a marketing manager on the software giant’s staffing team, the Seattleite spends much of her time publishing “Microspotting”, a blog profiling some of Microsoft’s most notable employees, from a Peruvian rockstar to a technical editor known as That Goth Girl to the company’s infamous mystery blogger Mini-Microsoft.