Meet the Team
Join Cisco's Preboarding Administration & Candidate Experience (PACE) team as a Talent Acquisition Coordinator Trainee, where you will gain comprehensive exposure to the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with talent advisors, business stakeholders, asset management, and external candidates, learning how the entire recruitment process operates within a global HR environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop both behavioral and technical skills, including presentation abilities, Excel proficiency, and practical usage of AI tools in recruitment processes.
Your Impact
Have a natural, customer-oriented mentality - this means an eloquent and useful communication style, detail orientation, and being highly responsive to partners.
Are exceptionally organized, personable, and seamlessly manage multiple work priorities in a fast-paced environment to meet tight deadlines … and you make it look easy.
Are passionate about people, which you continually demonstrate by identifying new ways to improve your candidates’ experience.
Have outstanding interpersonal & relationship management skills; you are a "people person" and shine in a team setting.
Thrive on change; demonstrating the flexibility to prioritize and adapt quickly when needed.
Maintain a high level of confidentiality by keeping sensitive information secure.
Ambitiously take on new assignments to support your team.
You will learn to use AI-driven insights effectively to navigate day-to-day technical or operational challenges.
Preferred Qualifications
* Completed 3-year Non-Engineering degrees (B.Com, BBA, BA, BBM etc.)
* You must have graduated in 2025/2026 and should have Provisional Degree Certificate.
* Must be available for a period of 12 months starting Sept 2026
* Basic Knowledge of MS office tools
* Good communication skills, passion & desire to learn, "Can do" attitude, proactive engagement, solutions seeking & a team player.
* Must have enrolled as a "student" on https://nats.education.gov.in/ and have a valid student enrolment number issued by NATS.
Disclaimer
Cisco’s greatest strength is its people. To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process, and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company.
Please be advised that any communication from Cisco recruiters about careers will:
* Be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company jobs site
* Begin with screening or an interview
* Originate from a Cisco email address, and
* Be conducted across email, phone, or Webex
Cisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask candidates for payments in any way. All formal application's status can be viewed through [2] https://jobs.cisco.com, with all offers coming from Cisco Recruiting mailer with directions to access via a secure portal. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from sites or channels other than above mentioned, please do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Social Security or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.
If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. Cisco bears no responsibility and cannot be held liable for any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to recruiting scams.
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Disclaimer
To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:
- be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site
- begin with screening or an interview
- originate from a Cisco email address, and
- be conducted across email, phone, or WebEx
Cisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from a site other than https://careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Aadhaar or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.
If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. Cisco bears no responsibility, and cannot be held liable, for any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to recruiting scams.
Skills Required
- Completed a three-year non-engineering degree such as B.Com, BBA, BA, or BBM
- Graduated in 2025 or 2026
- Provisional Degree Certificate
- Availability for 12 months starting September 2026
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
- Good communication skills
- Passion and desire to learn
- Proactive, solutions-oriented, and team-player attitude
- Enrollment as a student on the NATS portal
- Valid student enrollment number issued by NATS
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
Cisco Insights
What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
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