#WeAreCisco Giving Back
From UNESCO to CISCO: Improving Education with Cisco Technology
As the daughter of an excellent railway engineer, I had never imagined myself to be an engineer. But then, during my last semester of graduate school, my plan changed when I learned about a company called Cisco. Prior to this moment, I had been dreaming of working for the United Nations. With my new…
Leaving the World a Better Place with Cisco’s Time2Give
As a mom, I want to the leave the world a better place for my children. I often think about how I can actively make this happen and do my part to help change the world. If you’re like me, you probably have great intentions of solving world peace but struggle to find the time to accomplish such a fe…
How Time2Give Connects the Customer Experience Strategy Team
In the Customer Experience (CX) Strategy & Portfolio Team, our foundational belief is that what we do at Cisco is important, but that it should never overshadow the value of who we are as people. This belief has even inspired a team tradition! At each team meeting, we give new team members the…
Litter: The Real Fabric of our Lives?
Every year, Cisco gives each employee 40 hours (an entire work week!) to volunteer, and we can use all of it at once or just a few hours here and there throughout the year. It perhaps goes without saying that employees certainly take advantage of this incredible benefit, and there’s all kinds of way…
How Building a Home in Cambodia is a lot like Working at Cisco
14 colleagues. Habitat for Humanity. Cambodia. This was a recent volunteer trip we set out on, and our team name became Facta Non Verba. It means, “Deeds rather than words”. But I do have some words to share about the deeds we just accomplished in Cambodia. As recruiter at Cisco, my job is to share…
A Safe Space – Bring Your Special Kids to Work Day
Everyone needs a safe space. A place where they feel they can be their true selves, with no masks or limitations. What’s yours? Where’s the place you go to for a sigh of relief – one filled with calm and freedom? For many, this place is home – where your loved ones surround you. For others, it’s al…
Cisco Empowers Employees to be Themselves at Out! Raleigh
When I started at Cisco over three years ago with the Security & Trust Org’s (STO) Global Certification Team (GCT), I made the decision to be open about the fact that I’m gay. Not in an in-your-face, wear-it-on-your-sleeve kind of way, but rather in an authentic about who I am as a person kind o…
Inspiring the Next Generation of Cisconians
“You can’t ever quit Cisco because then you would lose all those cool friends” – Edward J. Fontaine, age 8 It has always been extremely important to me that my son sees the work I do. That he knows while Daddy works hard, so too does Mommy. It is one of the main reasons I jump at any chance to bring…
How Cisco’s Time2Give Inspired Me to Give Back
In a world with social media and 24 hour news cycles, it’s all too easy to switch channels or scroll away from the topics or photos that bother us. What I noticed is that I was becoming uncomfortable by how apathetic I was to images of poverty and despair – as if it was something we should just “lea…
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