Cisco Interns

September 3, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

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…

September 2, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

A Year Abroad – An Intern’s Transition

How does a culture-shocked, jet-lagged intern from England transform in a year’s time? Just by arriving in Silicon Valley Digital Marketing Intern Alice Mo was able to check off a bucket list item. But starting at Cisco earned another check. Her first day, she was filled with nerves. Wanting t…

August 13, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

Cisco Intern: From Homeless to Helping Others

Tia Pope loves being a Cisco IT Engineering Intern, not only for the opportunity it gives her, but for the opportunity she has to share her story with young girls just like her to help excite them about technical fields. And boy, does she have a story! Tia was raised in a single-parent family with s…

August 5, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

4 Reasons to Intern In College

The graduate job market is incredibly competitive these days and a qualification just isn’t enough to secure a position. If you think about it, every graduate applicant will have a degree and when you’re competing with hundreds or even thousands of graduates for a limited number of jobs, it is impor…

July 7, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

10 Pieces of Career Advice Cisco Employees Would Give Our 20-Year-Old Selves

Some of our Cisco employees were excited to attend a recent event in San Jose called Internapalooza, where all the interns in the area to come together, meet each other, exchange intern stories and gather information from the “older and wiser.” I asked some Cisco employees what advice they’d give in…