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4 Things That Make a Great Team “Cook”
The team that cooks together, stays together. Recently the Cisco APJC (Asia Pacific, Japan, China) leadership team got together for an offsite meeting in Bangalore, India – one of the main hubs for Cisco in the region. It was a great few days and one of the personal highlights for me was a team cook…
3 Ways to Waste Less At Work
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi Many millennials like myself are looking for ways we can change the world. It’s one of the things that brought me to Cisco. Cisco changes the way we work, live, play, and learn – my mission as an individual is similar: change the way we…
A Day in The Life of a Cisco Recruiter
I’m a Cisco recruiter. But I do more than that. We recruiters make dreams come true. As a military veteran, I can say that this, too, is more than just a job. Do we read a lot of resumes? Yes. We also help change the world. And we hire people who help change the world. There’s a lot of world-changin…
4 Tips to Succeed as a Young Professional
The Internet is flooded with ways to succeed in life, business, happiness, relationships, and just about anything else that can be measured. A quick Google search will bring up thousands of articles from people who want to help. As a young professional here at Cisco, I frequently catch myself wonder…
Making a Difference One Bike at a Time
“Do a good turn daily.” I was in the 6th grade when I first confidently recited the Scout Slogan in front of my troop. My uniform swallowed the frame of my entire body, but the words left my mouth with sound conviction as I accepted the challenge to perform a kind deed daily—big or small. 8 years la…
3 Things to Look For When Choosing a Company
Recently I had the opportunity to talk to a group of students who had a decision to make. They had multiple job offers, a good problem to have, but could only pick one. Hard Choices. My job was to sell them on Cisco. But it turned out to be more than that. While I was happy to share why I came to Ci…
Movember Goes Global at Cisco
Whether it’s in the U.S., Poland, the UK or other locations, mustaches are taking over Cisco offices this month! Pencil-thin mustaches, handle-bar mustaches, fake mustaches (for the women!) – they’re everywhere! Cisco employees love to have an impact over their community, whether it’s their neighbor…
Delivering Awesome, Inspired by Graffiti Art
“Delivering Awesome” might mean different things to different people. For the team delivering a workspace reboot, it meant finding a fun way to make the employee residents in the updated Building 18 in San Jose, CA feel at home in their new work environment. For the engineers who work in the…
Walk a Mile In My Moccasins
Yá’át’ééh (Hello in Navajo). November in the U.S. is known for many things – sweater weather, gaining an extra hour of sleep, spending time with family or football. November is also nationally known as Native American Heritage Month – a month commemorating Native American culture by celebrating and…
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