Microsoft Careers: Investigating ICIMS

The careers portal for Microsoft uses ICIMS as its recruiting framework. Within the framework, it makes use of “widgets.” Essentially just preset actions that you’re able to perform to retrieve information from the API, i.e.

“ddoKey”: “jobCartCountV2”

With this, and the main response body of the job itself, you can simply flip one bit from false to true, particularly in the widget with:

“ddoKey”: “getJobsData”,

“siteType”: “external” → “siteType”: “internal”

Once you’ve done that, whether through Fiddler/Charles/JavaScript, you should now see something similar to this before & after on any valid posting:

So now if you’re really after a particular job with Microsoft, you can very easily start a new rapport, hopefully for the better.

Also just for fun, here’s the PPE variant of the site that you can look around on.