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A “Blessing” Comes To Life Thanks to Cisco
When I was in 8th grade, I adopted a child…a sponsor child I mean! Her name was Blessing, and she was a young girl who was living in an orphanage in Kenya and needed help. Her mother died of AIDS when she was born and her father was suffering from the same disease. So, at age 14, I decided to gather…
Welcome to Cisco Raleigh!
This is the first in a series of Cisco site guides to help employees who visit different offices or for those interviewing. Welcome to Cisco in in Raleigh / RTP (that’s Research Triangle Park for you non-North Carolinians). Should you ever have the opportunity to visit or interview at our location,…
Cisco Colleagues Come Together For Good
I’ve always had compassion for the plight of many in Africa. I think it started from me being overly sensitive at a young age and taking the old dinner table saying “finish your food, there are starving children in Africa” to heart. This is why I was so touched by Alphonsine Imaniraguha’s story. I c…
Giving Back, Cisco Style, In Your Own Community
Time off to give back. We talk about it on this blog a lot, because employees love the idea of giving back. But a lot of the stories are about going big. Traveling to Honduras, volunteering for the big cats. But the great thing about this time off to give back, is that it doesn’t HAVE to be about go…
My First 30 Days at Cisco
What’s the best way to describe my first 30 day whirlwind at Cisco? Fearful? Hardly. Uncomfortable? Maybe. Successful? Absolutely. I understand that not everyone defines success in the same way, but my first 30 days at Cisco were filled with small victories. By far the most important may have been h…
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