Cisco extends a warm welcome to new employees, starting with the recruiting process and extending to programs for new hires and employees of acquired companies. We want employees to experience the best that Cisco has to offer, beginning on their very first day.

Casting a Wide Net

Diversity, the collective mix of who we are as individuals, is central to Cisco’s culture and way of doing business. We actively seek to hire people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, skills, and points of view because we firmly believe that a more inclusive workforce positions our company to:

• Anticipate important changes in world markets
• Respond to a wide spectrum of customer needs
• Tap rich sources of technical and business innovation
• Build a solid foundation for the future

We sharpened our recruiting focus in 2008 by adding a dedicated diversity recruiting oversight manager and developing a comprehensive global strategy for diversity recruitment. This strategy focuses on broadening our reach, identifying and targeting untapped resources, and increasing the diversity of the candidate pool for executive, professional, and university hires.