Jeff Dixon

Bellevue, WA

currently: Busy but listening

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What advice do you have for someone looking for their first job out of college?

Conduct as many informational interviews as possible. Not only does this help you understand what people do across a variety of industries, but it's the fastest way to find an interesting job. Demand (or strongly urge) that every person with whom who you speak give you 3 additional contacts.

Posted @ 09:12PM, March 30, 2007 by Jeff Dixon | Permalink
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Work history

Recruiting.com June 2006 to the present
VP Product Development

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How would you describe your time at Recruiting.com?

All things related to making money at Recruiting.com, which mainly consists of setting the strategy and direction of the company's products. I do everything from strategy to product development to marketing to market research to business development and more...
Amazon.com June 1999 to June 2006
Group Product Manager

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How would you describe your time at Amazon.com?

I had such a long tenure at Amazon that I worked on a lot of things (check my CV for the full run down). My last job at Amazon was defining the product soup-to-nuts for a digital music offering that is yet to launch at the time of this writing. Before that I managed a group of product folks that were responsible for developing all of Amazon's 3rd party selling products. My group managed all product decisions related to Amazon's Merchants@ and Marketplace products (3rd party selling on Amazon.com), as well as Amazon's. Merchants.com product (hosted ecommerce solutions).... read more
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Crompton Greaves January 1997 to August 1997
Lead Process Reengineering Consultant

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How would you describe your time at Crompton Greaves?

Managed a team of eight employees at the motor division of an Indian-based manufacturing company with revenues of $500 million. Led the team in assessing the division's order processing function. Recommended and implemented process changes that reduced order processing cycle time by 50 percent while increasing order accuracy.... read more
iQuantic March 1993 to December 1996
Management Consultant

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How would you describe your time at iQuantic?

Launched iQuantic as the second professional of a start-up consulting firm to the high-tech industry. Led teams of associates on engagements that translated clients' business objectives into creative equity-based reward strategies. Created the most widely-used annual survey on equity pay practices in the high-tech industry.... read more

Education

Darden August 1997 to June 1999
MBA

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How would you describe your time at Darden?

Recipient of Faculty Award for Academic Excellence awarded to top 10% of graduating class
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Dartmouth September 1988 to June 1992
BA, Engineering Sciences

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