Cisco is a global technology company founded in 1984 known for its networking hardware and software. It has over 71,000 employees worldwide and focuses on innovation, talent development, and customer service. Cisco recruits top talent through various strategies and provides extensive training and benefits to retain employees. It emphasizes core values of customer dedication and sharing company vision to drive success.
Officers and directors
● John T. Chambers: Chairman of
the Board
● First COO: Gary Moore
● Chief Strategy officer:Ned
Hooper
● Founders
Leonard Bosack along with his wife
Sandy Lerner
Introduction
● Founded in 1984
4.
Name Origin
●Cisco is an abbreviation of San
Francisco.
Symbolic reference
● suggest that Human Network: built
for the human network
Address
● 70 West Tasman Drive 170 West
Tasman Dr SAN JOSE, CA 95134-
1706 Introduction
5.
Mission & Goals
● Shape the future of the
Internet
● Creating unprecedented
value
● opportunity for:
○ Customers
○ Employees
○ Investors
○ Ecosystem partners
Vision Mission, Goals & Vision
● Changing the way we Work,
Live, Play, and Learn.
6.
● Revenue in2011
US$ 43.21 billion
Net profit margin : 15.02%
Operating margin: 17.76%
Employees: 71,825
● Stock Symbol
NASDAQ: CSCO (Stock
Price $20.06 as of 04/18/2012)
● When CISCO become public
trade Company: February 16,
1990 Business Facts
7.
Products
●CISCO played more important role in
development of Internet
● Provide infrastructure of the Internet
& broadest range of the solutions of
internet connectivity
● offers tools to manage the Internet
sites
Competitors
● Competitors: Alcatel-
Lucent, Hewlett-Packard
Business facts
Company, ARRIS Group, Aruba
Networks, Motorola
Innovator Strategy
● Emphasis is on not to adopt
rigid approach of one
technology that favor
technology over other
Core values
● Dedication to customer
services
● Company vision must be
shared with the employee Corporate and HR strategy
● Employee must be
monitored to check their
managerial goals
10.
Recruitment and Selection
Methods
● Change
● Experiment
● Rethink
Training
● Trains employees how it
will maintain its winning
culture
HRM Strategy
11.
HR Department supportedtransition
employees from:
● in more than 25 countries
● companies acquired by Cisco
Department is equipped with:
● Automated tools, standard
processes
HR Department
● Use of transition process to act
faster, simpler, and more
consistent HRM Department
● A small team of HR representative
12.
Recruitment and selection
objective
● Increase the number of
qualified applicants
● Quickly match prospective job
candidates with the right
positions
● Increase the speed of recruiting
and hiring
● Streamline and monitor internal
hiring processes
● Encourage current employees Recruitment and Selection
to actively recruit friends
● Receives 70,000 applications a
year
13.
Recruitment Strategies
Hiring top10-15%' people in the
networking industry
● HR department schedule recruiter
events
● Cisco conduct on-campus virtual
information sessions
● Internships and Apprenticeship
Program
Recruitment Method
● Use CISCO Web technologies for
recruiting & interviewing Recruitment Practice
14.
● Attracting thecandidate that
most closely matches
Cisco’s requirements
● Sharing with employee
critical information about
CISCO:
○ Vision
○ Objective
○ Goals Retention Strategies
15.
Online application
● All applications are processed through
online application
Application screening
● HR department screened the applicants
Online testing
● Applicants are asked to take complete a
personality and/or reasoning test
Competency-based Telephone Interview
● Telephone interview is conducted to
test skills and attributes of applicants
Recruitment Practices
Assessment Centre
● Applicant is invited for interview at
assessment centre
16.
Testing methods
● Hold interviews using Cisco
TelePresence technology
Processing time
● CISCO try to be quickest as
possible
● Interns- single interview
● New graduate and experience
professional 2 round of interviews
Ideal candidate
● Who promote CISCO values Selection Practices
● Help CISCO grow
17.
● Cisco spentmore than $90
million on employee training
and development.
● 82% of employees participated
in at least one course
● CISCO offer more than 1.5
million hours/year
approximately
● Piloted Talent Connection, an
internal tool, that allows
recruitment teams, managers
Training & Development
and employees to work together
to match skill sets against
internal job openings
18.
● 70% ofemployee development comes
from job experiences
● 20 % comes from feedback
● 10% from e-learning
● CISCO University offer excellent
training programs for the employees,
4000 course and 70,000 registration
are each quarter
● Cisco also offer Pathfinder training
program
Training and development
● Employee can shift one department to
other for nurturing talent
● Thousands of video and tutorial for
employee only accessible to employees
19.
Annual Employee Performance
Management
● Review employee performance and
development annually
● Discuss their need for
improvement with their managers
Mid-Year Career Discussions
● Opportunity for managers and
employees to discuss their
development opportunities half
way through the year.
Performance Appraisal
In 2012
● Cisco is creating Performance
Connection
● Flexible workinghours through Cisco
solutions such as
○ Cisco Virtual Office
○ Cisco TelePresence
○ Cisco WebEx
● Telecommuting is used by 95 % of
employees
● Life Connection's Health Center
provides health care for Cisco
employees and their families
● Medical, Dental, Vision, Behavioral, Lif Benefits
e and accidental development
insurance, Disability, financial, 401
(K), Employee assistance program
22.
● a globalemployee tuition
● numbers of assistance
programs for the employees
● Child scholarship fund for
the children of deceased
employees.
● Quad- Cisco's internal
social network
Compensation and benefits
● employee volunteerism
23.
● Provide comprehensivesupports to new
employee which results in 80% retention
rate
● High-touch human resources (HR)
model for new employees to feel
them home.
● Onsite orientation meeting to ensure a
smooth integration process for the new
employees
● New Hire Network helps its members
share knowledge, build leadership skills,
and develop professional relationships Challenges for new Employee
● 2012 year, Cisco is creating The Leader
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