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Carmen Shirkey Collins

Social Media Manager

Talent Brand and Enablement Team, HR

Carmen is the senior social media manager for Cisco’s Talent Brand team and the WeAreCisco social channels. Her job at Cisco is to create personal connections to the great employees we have and the cool projects they work on, so that prospective talent will choose Cisco as the place to bring their top-notch skills.

As a professional social media enthusiast, she thinks she "has one of the greatest jobs on the planet" – and has been doing this since before “social media” was even a term in the lexicon. Over her social media career, she has helped several Fortune 500 companies engage with their audience through great content and building relationships.

Outside of her work at Cisco, she’s a world traveler and a published author (find her on Amazon) with another book underway, and finds that kittens and bacon rule the Internet. :)

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September 24, 2020

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Team #WeAreCisco Takes to Animal Crossing 

Carmen shares how our Employee/r Brand Team hopped into Animal Crossing for a little #WeAreCisco fun, and now connects like never before!

March 24, 2020

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Cisco’s Culture Translates to Working From Home

As Cisco teams transition to working from home globally, Carmen shares a few tips and some of our favorite #WFH moments in the past week!

March 19, 2019

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4th Annual #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork Contest Winners!

The 2019 #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork Contest WINNERS are announced! See them here.

January 22, 2019

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A Webex Wedding

Weddings are tough, but they're no match for the Cisco Talent Brand team that came together through Webex to celebrate their teammates wedding day in a global way!

July 31, 2018

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The Cisconian Sorting Hat

To celebrate J.K. Rowling's birthday - we wondered if the Sorting Hat and Cisco's Teamspace were one in the same! What house would you be in?

April 3, 2018

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#Winning: The Best of #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork

Drumroll, please. It's time to announce the winners of the third-annual #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork employee photo contest!

February 20, 2018

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Cisco Worldwide (And The Logo That Brings Us Together)

Carmen shares how the Cisco logo brings us all together -- even when we're traveling!

January 17, 2018

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Love What You Do

"Love what you do, and you'll never work a day in your life." Cisco employees LOVE what we do, and will be showing off why in the 3rd annual #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork contest.

December 19, 2017

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Cisco Employees Take Ugly Holiday Sweaters to New Heights (Lows?)

Cisconians get into the spirit of the holidays with some pretty epic Ugly Sweater Parties!