8 Career Tips From Cisco’s Awesome Women In Technology
Cisco employees, who also happen to be women technologists, are gearing up to attend/speak/participate in the Grace Hopper...
Carmen Shirkey Collins
Social Media Manager
Talent Brand and Enablement Team, HR
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Employees Are Wowed By Cisco’s New San Jose HeadQuarters
New CEO Chuck Robbins issued a challenge (one of many) when he stepped into his new role this past summer. "I want Cisco to be viewed as...
Team Donates Blood To Support Their Cisco Family
Folks at Cisco don’t “hijack” blood donation trucks unless there’s a very good reason. If helping a colleague cope...
#IChoseCisco – The Winners!
Recently, the Life at Cisco Instagram account (follow us!) asked employees to submit photos via Instagram (and a few other methods) to show us why they chose Cisco. (See the original blog post here.) Turns out, all employees needed was a white-board, a dry-erase pen, and a chance, and they were more than excited to tell […]
We Are Family – Cisco Sisters
“We are family! I’ve got all my sisters and me!” ~ Sister Sledge. Now that we’ve gotten a disco tune earworm in your brain, let’s talk about how two sisters,...
Cisco Engineer Turns Fear into Fearless
If you think running a 5K race is challenge enough, try throwing a few daunting obstacles on the course. Cisco Network Consulting Engineer Deidra Brown has faced that challenge,...
3 Ways to Think Globally
Nicki Vereschagin just finished her second summer internship at Cisco on the Cloud Partner Marketing team. Before heading back to USC she wanted to leave some advice behind. What follows are tips on how others can learn to think on a global scale. As an intern on the Cisco Cloud Marketing team for two summers […]
One Word That Will Change Your LinkedIn Profile Forever
It’s no secret. I’m nuts about social media. (I lead the Cisco Careers “Life at Cisco” social media strategy.) Word gets around, so people who aren’t as nuts about social media ask me for advice. I love helping them, because when you’re passionate about something, you want others to be passionate about it. One of […]
#ILookLikeAnEngineer – Cisco style!
The #ILookLikeAnEngineer hashtag is the diversity sensation that’s sweeping the nations! The hashtag started as a way to break down stereotypes as to what an engineer might look like. It’s not just nerdy guys. It’s women, minorities; heck, ANYONE can be an engineer or interested in technology. We gathered all of the #ILookLikeAnEngineer posts from […]