talent acquisition

“WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE A PROFESSIONAL SOCCER PLAYER.” I was only six when I wrote this on a piece of paper that I ripped from my diary and sealed away. When I opened that paper 20 years later, I tossed it in to the trash as I thought that dream was over. I needed to focus on my career. But t…

Prior to working at Cisco, I couldn’t imagine a life where (from my office in Raleigh, North Carolina) I could ask my manager on a Monday to work part of Tuesday from the road and all of Wednesday from St. Louis ahead of a holiday weekend. I mean, I could ask – but I’d probably get some very bizarre…

Recruiting isn’t just a job for us, it’s a passion. Our talent acquisition team at Cisco’s Security Business Group (SBG) for America’s Engineering is here to do one thing – change lives for the better.  That’s right, we’re here to change your life – and your family’s life – and even on the toughest…

13 years ago, I was a wide-eyed kid trying to make it in the big city. I started my career in professional services – meaning I was a sales guy who specialized in placing network engineers into full time permanent positions in the Washington DC Metro Area. That’s where I first met Cisco as I helped…

As a borderline perfectionist, I took pride in going to the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and landing my first job in recruiting before the end of my senior year of college. I decided to stay on that track and have spent the bulk of my career at a company I’m also very proud of—Cisco. I…

I’ve always had a bit of hate/love relationship with entrepreneurship. I put the “hate” first because as a child, I recall my parent’s restaurant taking up an extraordinary amount of the family’s time. Knowing this was just the “way of life” for most small businesses, I was convinced it wouldn’t be…

You know what always brings people together? Cookies! ☺️ I LOVE making cookies.  There’s just something about sweating away in the kitchen, my hair powdered with flour, my face smeared with chocolate, ingredients all over the counter that I find rewarding. Its hard work, but I get so…

You may have read the many ways Cisco encourages its employees to give back throughout the year. Most notoriously, this is done through the Time2Give initiative which provides employees 5 days every calendar year to give back to ways that are most important to them in both their local communities, a…

With a team dispersed across the region or across the globe, how do you meet peers from a little bit of everywhere? Cisco technology is, of course, one way! Webex and Webex for Teams keeps us connected constantly, but sometimes, nothing beats good old fashioned face-to-face time. The news of having…