Recently I was invited to a careers evening at my school, St. Georges in Ascot UK, to speak to young female students about what it is like to work in the technology sector. Each of the speakers invited was asked to prepare a 20 minute presentation on their job and the sector they worked in and then participate in a roundtable discussion with the girls so that they could ask questions. Read More »

Tags: Female, talent, technology

Happy 2012, partners! Inspired by Channel Maven’s lively list of resolutions, I began to pontificate on Cisco’s new year’s resolutions for partners this year.

1. First and foremost: profitability.

C’mon, who doesn’t want more profits in 2012? Services now represent 40-50% of Cisco channel partners business, up from 20% five years ago. Our recently created Services Rules of Engagement offers partners a definitive roadmap on how to engage with Cisco Services and maximize your Cisco services investment.

Plus profitability programs like Cisco’s Value Incentive Program (VIP) ensure that you’re rewarded for focusing your practice on Cisco’s architectures. Stay tuned for new signup periods.

Check out the full list of incentives on Partner Central.

2. Helping partners help customers become one with the cloud.

To help ensure partners have a successful Year of the Cloud, Cisco’s Cloud Partner program (with three tracks) will help you prepare for growth in cloud adoption. Combine that with CloudVerse to help you build public, private, and hybrid clouds for customers and you’ve got a winning combo. You can’t lose with the intelligence of the network, the power of the data center, and the flexibility of cloud applications.

3. Work less! Programs and services to make your job easier. Read More »

Tags: architectures, Borderless Networks, cloud, hiring, IT, keith goodwin, marketing, partner, partner velocity, program, smb, social media, talent, VIP

While we can’t expect a medal-winning performance every day or to excel at everything we do, we can discover our natural talents, where our strengths lie and what we’re truly passionate about. Read More »

Tags: Cisco, competition, Denise Lewis, Energy, Inclusion and Diversity, performance, Roger Black, shiny eyes, success, talent

As part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity (I&D), we at Cisco are devoted to building diversity into our recruiting and hiring process. I would like to share with you a great Inclusion and Diversity Best Practice on how we extended our I&D principles to our recruiting process for our Associate Network Consulting Engineer Program (ANCE), an extensive training and work experience program that provides graduates with the training to be a capable Network Consulting Engineer with our Advanced Services organisation. Read More »

Tags: Associate Network Consulting Engineer Program, engineers, hiring, Inclusion and Diversity, talent

Cisco recently announced that the Cisco Networking Academy has enrolled its 1 millionth concurrent student for the first time. An example of cloud-based education delivery, the Networking Academy teaches students how to design, build, troubleshoot, and secure computer networks for increased access to career and economic opportunities — in communities all around the world.

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Tags: global networked economy, International Women's Day, networking academy, talent