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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. :)

Articles

September 27, 2017

WE ARE CISCO

Cisco Was There: A Culture Conversation After Hurricane Irma

4 min read

When the #WeAreCisco Team had TWO employees in Hurricane Irma's path, they went from telling employee stories to BEING in one.

July 20, 2017

WE ARE CISCO

Oh, Baby, Baby! Celebrating Life Events with Global Teams

3 min read

When a teammate was expecting a new baby, Cisco's Talent Brand team threw her a VIRTUAL baby shower! #WeAreCisco

May 3, 2017

WE ARE CISCO

Use the Force to Apply, You May (the 4th)

1 min read

The Corporate Functions Recruiting Team at Cisco presents to you, for #Maythe4th only, the job requirement for a Cisco Jedi Knight. Apply now. Use the Force.

April 21, 2017

WE ARE CISCO

May the 4th Be With You, Cisco Style

1 min read

To celebrate #Maythe4th, Cisco employees will have to use the Force and show why #WeAreCisco and we #LoveWhereYouWork.

March 27, 2017

WE ARE CISCO

Do you Love Where YOU Work? #WeAreCisco and We Do!

1 min read

The second-annual #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork employee photo contest winners are in! See the highlights and the full set of finalists and winners.

February 14, 2017

WE ARE CISCO

Valentine’s Day: #LoveWhereYouWork Edition

1 min read

Cisco employees are using the month of love to show the world why they #LoveWhereYouWork. #WeAreCisco!

January 31, 2017

WE ARE CISCO

#WeAreCisco! Why do you #LoveWhereYouWork?

2 min read

Cisconians tell why they're part of the #WeAreCisco tribe, and why they #LoveWhereYouWork.

November 17, 2016

WE ARE CISCO

5 Career Advice Tidbits from Cisco’s Systems Engineers

1 min read

Who better to give advice to aspiring Cisconians than INSPIRING Cisconians? Get career advice from these top systems engineers.

October 14, 2016

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

#CiscoChat / Snapchat Crossover Recap Celebrates Women in Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration

1 min read

The excitement around the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (#GHC16) conference is growing and growing! That’s because only a few days from now, some really awesome women in...

June 28, 2016

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

How We Took Cisco’s Talent Brand to Snapchat

4 min read

Snapchat. It’s the new shiny social media platform. It has the most marketing-sought-after age group as it’s primary user base (that would be millennials and Gen Z) and it’s all anyone in social media can talk about. As the social media lead for Cisco’s Talent Brand Team, I know that our team has been talking about it for over a […]

June 8, 2016

WE ARE CISCO

Being a Cisco Pet Is a “Ruff” Life, But It’s Also “Purrfect”

2 min read

Cisco humans love every extra minute with their furry friends. From volunteering with the Cisco Cat Club to giving back at shelters, most will tell you that “fur kids” are an important part of Cisco life.

May 5, 2016

WE ARE CISCO

10 Career Tips from Moms (of Cisco Employees!)

5 min read

My mom says that being a mom is the hardest job you’ll ever have. But it’s also rewarding when you...

April 20, 2016

WE ARE CISCO

Oh snap! Cisco Employees Takeover Snapchat.

1 min read

The WeAreCisco employee tribe is everywhere, especially in social media. We’re on Twitter, we’re on Instagram, and now we’re on (wait for it) Snapchat! If you’re a Snapchatter, you know that it’s a messaging app with fun filters that lets you post “snaps” with everything from rainbows streaming out of your mouth to having a halo […]

May 3, 2016

WE ARE CISCO

Get Your Chuck Facts From This Cisco Employee

1 min read

Chuck Norris. Chuck Robbins. Same difference. Or so thinks super-social Cisconian Rodney Heron. An Account Executive in Commercial...

March 24, 2016

WE ARE CISCO

The #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork Winners Are Here!

1 min read

We asked Cisco employees to tell us why they love working here by using the hashtags #LoveWhereYouWork and #WeAreCisco. The results are worth seeing!

February 17, 2016

WE ARE CISCO

Blab With Cisco Employee Brian Dickinson

1 min read

Previously, we talked to Cisco employee and Everest-climber Brian Dickinson about his inspiring story, and what we can learn about having an adventure-filled career from his experiences. There was such a response, that we decided to host a Blab (a new social platform with live-streaming video and interactive chat) with Brian to talk with him […]