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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Bryan:</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I'm a member of the Yahoo! Inc Talent Acquisition team and have been
able to make contact with you through Internet research techniques. I'm
contacting you to inform you of variety of exciting career opportunities within
Yahoo! which I thought may be of interest to you. </span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>As a result of continued growth and the creation of new business models
at Yahoo!, we’re looking for UE Designers with both visual and
interaction design skills to work across Yahoo! on short-term design projects
in various business units. Our Designers create various artifacts to support
the design process, including, personas, storyboards, and/or design
representations of appropriate fidelity, then iterate the interfaces and
document the designs with interaction and/or visual specifications as required
by the various projects. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with
a variety of stakeholders and highly talented colleagues to design and assess
proposed solutions, all in the interest of creating the best user experience for
hundreds of millions of Yahoo! users. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>To perform these roles, we seek a BS/MS in Graphic Design, Interaction
Design, HCI or a related field, with a minimum of 3 years of experience as a
key member of a User Experience team. This experience should include
significant involvement in the complete product development life cycle of
several successfully launched web and/or software applications. We’d
also like to see familiarity with field and lab-based usability research
methodologies, the ability to create prototypes at a variety of levels, and a
solid understanding of web application and website design with working
knowledge of HTML.</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We have a range of opportunities available for designers in both
Northern and <st1:place w:st="on">Southern California</st1:place>. At Yahoo!
we offer tremendous overall breadth, which translates to more opportunity to
impact a wider diversity of areas from mail to music to social media to
search. At Yahoo!, we develop products very quickly and release them to large
audiences so that services ARE NOT in a perpetual state of beta. </span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Since you've been involved with similar activities during your career,
I thought there was a reasonable chance that you may be interested in exploring
these opportunities with us. If so, we’d be interested in learning more
about your background and interests relative to these positions, and provide
you with additional information about the organization and our company. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thank you for considering this inquiry. I'll look forward to your
response! </span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Regards, </span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gary Jong</span></font></st1:PersonName></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Talent Scout</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Yahoo! </span></font></p>
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