A journey from academic life to Microsoft

Author:

Ali Bin Saleem.

Dated: 21/Oct/2015

My name’s Ali Bin Saleem I live in southern side of Punjab, Bahawalpur, graduated from IUB (The

Islamia University of Bahawalpur). I have studied well with great honor and it’s always been my first priority to fight and look for what I deserve. Keeping that in mind when I was offered a registration in a contest of MICROSOFT LEARN FOR SUCCESS, I accepted it as early as I could with open arms. The reason behind my quick response was my liking towards Microsoft since the day I started studying computer sciences.

Attending every session that was organized by Microsoft in my university as well as anywhere else in Punjab or entire Pakistan, taking part or at least showing presence to gain every type of knowledge they deliver. So when I got an email from LEARN FOR SUCCESS I started following from very first day after getting registered. Contest was contained on MVA courses that i had to complete in order to make it complete on single task at Microsoft learn for success. After completing every task mentioned on LFS portal which was for 6 months a final result was announced which really was in direct favor of mine because I was at last place in a list of finally selected student which were going to be a Microsoft evangelists.

So I first offer thanks to god and then started working at Microsoft Lahore office, Arfa Technology park.

The Microsoft Learn for Success contest? Microsoft Learn for Success is a contest designed by Microsoft in the Middle East and Africa region. The contest is open to young talented IT students, so I can demonstrate my knowledge by completing the indicated DVLUP Challenges during the contest period for a chance win an internship at Microsoft during the summer of 2015 in the countries below:
Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, South Africa and United Arab Emirates.

How did it work? Eligible students can enter the contest through the Learn for Success website: www.microsoftlearnforsuccess.com. So i entered in the contest and commenced to work on every single task that was enlisted on the Microsoft Learn For Success portal. these tasks was actually based on MVA's courses which i had to complete.

Once I visited Learn for Success website, registered and took the challenges which were going to be hosted on DVLUP to gain points. Each completed challenge would have counted towards the total of contest points.
Further that was grounded on that strategy I.e Acquired points will be stored in your personal contest account that will be accessible at www.microsoftlearnforsuccess.com. The top Learn for Success contest performers (thirty seven in total) assessed by May 15th 2015 at 11:59 PM [GMT] will be invited to attend an internship at Microsoft Developer Experience and Evangelism (DX) department,

Pakistan: 10 winners
Egypt: 8 winners
Turkey: 7 winners
United Arab Emirates: 2 winners
South Africa: 10 winners

DVLUP gave me an exclusive access to Learn for Success challenges and by completing the challenges I will be earning points.

Had fun learning and earned points by taking Learn for Success challenges on DVLUP. I'll get the chance to earn points by downloading free software from DreamSpark and receive free Microsoft training delivered by experts from Microsoft Virtual Academy http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com and many other challenges to come. Earn points and I will be able to see my updated score on Learn for Success Heroes leaderboard weekly

Well in this regards Microsoft has always been blowing such wind by allowing/giving entrepreneurs, student, beginners and even experienced personals an opportunity to sharpen their skills by giving practicable environment and to seek some knowledge under her wide range of highly qualified mentorship that ceases their research to keep looking for a complete answer, they always get their selves satisfied.