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Cisco offers an industry-leading portfolio of technology innovations. With networking, security, collaboration, cloud management, and more, Cisco helps to securely connect industries and communities.

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The Pillars of an Award-Winning Program

Cisco was selected as a 2024 Campus Forward Award Winner for their unwavering commitment to seeking out and hiring early career talent and investments in nurturing and retaining the next generation of diverse talent. Please see below for the highlights of their approach to early career recruitment.

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Multi-Faceted and Thoughtful Approach to University Recruitment

The ETR team over delivers on innovation in the industry and disrupting the status quo recruiting models to meet diverse and highly-skilled candidates. This is accomplished through aggressive sourcing strategies, ample research, creative activations, and thoughtful partnerships with the business leaders.

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Standout Candidate Experience

Cisco strives to create a positive experience for all of their candidates. They communicate transparently through the journey, supply everything an interviewee needs, provide guidelines to prep effectively, and create a great space to engage and meet with leaders and change-makers in the space of interest.

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Impactful Internship Program

Cisco's internship program is designed to empower interns and early in career hires with the skills, knowledge, and connections they need to excel in their roles and become future leaders at Cisco. Cisco's aim is to provide programming that fosters a strong sense of belonging and an understanding of our company culture, while being fully immersed in our expansive network and resources from on the job training to wrap-around benefits to financial wellbeing and Employee Resource Groups.

Congratulations to the team at Cisco for being selected as one of the winners of RippleMatch’s 2024 Campus Forward Awards!

RippleMatch’s Campus Forward Awards recognizes the top early career teams and programs in the nation. Through a detailed application process, early career teams shared their approach to recruitment, candidate experience, technology, D&I, and internship & entry-level programming. The programs picked for this award represent the best of the best, selected from applications submitted by campus recruiting teams across industries.

See all Award Winners for the category of Enterprise Early Career Programs below

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